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ordinary British plant, and such the usual character of its habitats (in 
the vicinity of settlements) that I should be disposed to regard the 
plant as, in all cases in which I saw it, introduced, were it not that 
my friend Mr. Martin, and others of the original settlers of 1847-8, 
assure me the plant must be a ¿rue native, flourishing as it did in 
Otago, long prior to the advent of colonists. 
The “Porerua,” or ** Puwha," or “Pua,” of the North Island Maori, 
who recognizes also “the Small Sowthistle ” as “ Pua iti." (Dieff.) 
NOTES RESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS. 
By T. R. Arcuer Briees, Esq. 
Ranunculus auricomus, L. This plant has been considered rare 
about Plymouth, but being an inconspicuous species, is probably often 
overlooked. Unrecorded local stations are a wood at Plympton 
Maurice; a bank near Harestone; woods on both sides of the Yealm, 
near Yealmpton ; Maristowe. Wood near Sheviocke, Cornwall. 
Hypericum hirsutum, L. So very rare in the extreme south-west of 
Devon that within twelve miles of Plymouth I have only met with it 
in one locality, a wood between Puslinch Bridge and Yealmpton, 
where several plants of it occur. 
Potentilla argentea, L. It may be worth while to observe, that six 
plants are growing this season at Trevol, Cornwall, where I found 
only one in July, 1865 (vide Seemann’s Journ. Bot. Vol. ITI. p. 350). 
Mespilus Germanicus, L. A large and abundantly spinous bush in 
a hedgerow just beyond St. Stephen's “ by Saltash," on the road to 
Forder. In a lane, in the same neighbourhood, between Weard Quay 
and the St. Stephen's and Saltash Road, this species forms a consider- 
able portion of the hedgerow for a distance of about eight yards, aud 
a single bush occurs on a hedgebank, between fields, at right angles 
with the lane. The above stations are all in Cornwall. A high bush 
in a hedgerow near Battisborough Cross, close to the road leading 
i i ive i istinet ies, viz. S. asper, Vill., which was 
was CT mei aly a iin Dit Rad. p f ad alo 
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According to Dieffenbach, what is evidently the same word, “ Puwa,” is 
applied to the Thistle, also a naturalized plant 
