318 NOTES RESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS. 
of the commonest pixel in marshy valleys, growing with Pedicularis 
palustris, Myrica 
Medicago Ba ear Willd.—Many plants on a low cliff at Seaton, 
near Looe, Cornwall, June, 1869. 
Lathyrus Nissolia, L. Plentiful in a piece of ground rendered 
waste, within a few years, by the Plymouth fortification works, situated 
between S. Budeaux and Honicknowle, June, 1869. Some plants 
produced flowers of a flesh colour; others had them of the ordinary 
crimson tint. This Lathyrus seems not so much as naturalized any- 
where near Plymouth. 
Agrimonia odorata, Mill.—By the road leading to Quollicdk village 
from the St. German's and Callington road, Cornwall ; in some quan- 
tity, and not confined to one spot, July, 1869. Less plentiful in a 
lane near Landulph, in the same county. 
Pyrus Scandica, Bab.—I now consider this handsome shrub indige- 
nous in the neighbourhood of Plymouth (vide Seemann, Journ. Bot., 
Vol. VI. p. 327). Two large bushes grow in a native wood, principally 
of oak, between Roborough Down and the river Plym, near Hoo 
Meavy. One of these had in August last many cymes of unripe fruit, 
and close by were two young bushes that had sprung from seed ; 
one of them of only two or three years’ growth. In a neighbouring 
wood was another fine bush, with fruit. The allied species, dp: 
torminalis, Ehrh., is thinly scattered over S.W. Devon and S.E. Cor 
wall, in hedgerows and copses. 
Epilobium lanceolatum, Seb.—On rubble from the S. Devon slate 
quarries, between Ugborough and Ivybridge, copiously.’ May, 1869. 
Physospermum Cornubiense, De Cand.—The fact that this species 
grows plentifully in the neighbourhood of Bodmin, Cornwall, has been 
long known to British botanists; but probably few are aware that an- 
other portion of this county also produces it in great abundance. 1 
did not know that such was the case until I met with the following 
statement, from an anonymous writer in the ‘ Journal of the Royal In- 
stitution of Cornwall, April, 1868 :—* Some of our rarest plants are 
fortunately so abundant in the localities in which they are found, that 
there is not the slightest possibility of their extermination. This is 
the case with the Physospermum, which abounds in every bushy field 
in a direct line between Halton Quay, on the banks of the Tamar, an 
Newton Ferrers, on the river Lynher. My attention was first drawn 
