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lovely plant, covering, with its snowy and pink blossoms, acres upon 

 acres of barren moor, would do well to postpone his visit till the first 

 week in September. The summer species, it is true, will then have 

 passed away ; but still a rich harvest of Corrigiola littoralis, Elatine 

 hexandra, Chenopodium botryoides &c. may be culled on the banks 

 of Loo Pool, a wide expanse of water near Helston, about six miles 

 from the Lizard, and also Illecebrum verticillatum, Exacum filiforme, 

 and Lotus hispidus, from the adjoining country : so that even at that 

 advanced period of the year a visit would not prove altogether fruitless. 

 I have deviated somewhat from my intentions when I commenced 

 this paper, having entered upon what may be called a general sum- 

 mary of Lizard vegetation, and'an invitation to botanists to come, in- 

 spect and gather for themselves. I shall therefore proceed at once 

 without further interruption to furnish an account of a day's wanderings 

 on the Lizard in June. 



I started with my friend, the Rev. C. A. Johns, in a gig from Helston 

 on the morning of the 11th for Landewednack, the village adjacent to 

 the Lizard lighthouses. Our immediate object was to search for the 

 Trifolium discovered near Cadgewith by Babington,in July, 1839, and 

 which he identified as Trifolium Bocconi, Savi. I had been kindly 

 furnished by this indefatigable botanist, both with the exact locality 

 and a specimen of the plant; but the latter was in such a scorched and 

 mutilated condition; that I really feared some mistake had been made, 

 and that the plant was nothing more than a stunted example of Trifo- 

 lium striatum. Though well aware of my friend Babiugton's botanical 

 accuracy, I could not consent to receive even his dictum, pronounced 

 over such imperfect plants as those collected by him, and therefore 

 determined to use no ordinary exertions in my attempts to rediscover the 

 habitat. I knew well that the plant must be in good condition, and 

 that its identity with or distinctness from striatum would be at once 

 manifest. Having traversed the Goonhilly downs, on which we found 

 Genista anglica and Chara gracilis, and succeeded in capturing a 

 beautiful specimen of Zootoca vivipara, of a splendid green colour, we 

 reached the road leading to Ruan minor. Here I quitted the gig for 

 the Bocconi station, which is situated about two miles from the turn- 

 ing. At Ruan minor I commenced work, and shortly met with a lux- 

 uriant specimen of Trifolium striatum near the spot marked out by 

 Babington : my doubts were now much increased, but I continued, 

 almost microscopically, to examine, step by step, the stony walls 

 which bound the road to Cadgewith. At length a lighter hue on the 

 western wall some yards a-head, announced the presence of a new 



