NOTES RESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS. 819 
to this plant by Mr. Kempthorne, of Callington, who found it growing 
in a field near Newton Ferrers. On grassy knolls among the heath 
and furze of Vernico, the Physospermum is particularly plentiful.” I 
have, to some extent, verified the above statement during the past 
summer, for, within the tract of country indicated, I have found it in 
abundance in woods by a tributary of the Lynher, near Pillaton, and 
also quite common in many spots near Clapper Bridge. It has, more- 
over, a wider range than the writer above quoted gives it, for it is 
plentiful in spots on and about Hammet and Hayfield Downs, between 
Newton Ferrers and Quethiock. 
Galium verum, L.; B. ochroleucum, Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. 3; Lond. 
Cat. ed. 6.—A patch of this occurs on a cliff near Lugger's Cave, 
above Whitsand Bay, Rame, Cornwall. Plants of both Galium verum, 
a. luteum, Syme, and Galium Mollugo, L., grow near it. 
Valerianella Auricula, De Cand.—Ina cornfield between Quethiock 
and Hammel. Down, Cornwall; growing with V. dentata, Koch. 
July, 1869. 
Lysimachia vulgaris, L.—Near Plymouth I have seen this species 
only in the valley of the Lynher, and there but sparingly. It occurs, 
however, many miles further west, near Probus, Cornwall, where I 
gathered it recently. 
Centunculus minimus, L.—From its small size this is often over- 
looked, and so is probably a commoner species than many suppose. 
During last July and August I found it at the six following localities, 
all within twelve miles of Plymouth, but at none of which, so far as I 
am aware, had any one noticed it before. In a damp spot, on Crown- 
hill Down, near Newnham Park, growing plentifully with Radiola Mil- 
grana, Sw., a species it is very commonly associated with ; in two or 
three spots (abundant in one) in a bushy meadow between Bickleigh 
and Roborough Down; in two others in the vale of the Plym, between 
Meavy and Hoo Meavy; these localities are in Devon. On Viverdon 
and Pillaton Downs, and in a vale by a tributary of the Lynher, over 
which passes the road from S. Mellion to Pillaton village, Cornwall. 
At the last station it was in August last plentiful by the cart-track in 
the vale, a few gunshots above the bridge. 
Littorella lacustris, L.—In and about two ponds near the “ China 
Clay Works," on Crownhill Down, near Plympton. In the neigh- 
bourhood of Plymouth the Littorella is a very rare plant. 
