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there was Saxifraga urabrosa growing in several wet spots among the 

 trees in great profusion ; whether or not it might have been originally 

 planted I cannot tell, but there were no other cultivated plants around, 

 neither did it bear any marks of having been placed there by the hand 

 of man. At Biddeford I succeeded in finding the wall which produces 

 Senecio squalidus; it is near the Inn above the Church ; the plant 

 is not very abundant, but I saw it also in a garden, where the woman 

 told me it was a weed, and had grown many years. This is the best 

 place from which to visit Braunton Burrows, but I had no opportu- 

 nity for doing so. They are a conspicuous object on the road to 

 Barnstaple, along which I saw Artemisia maritiraa and several other 

 sea plants. While at llfracombe I went to see the locality there 

 for Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, which is difiicult of access except at 

 low water, and at all times care is required not to be overtaken by the 

 tide ; it is to the west of the town, beyond the first ridge of rocks after 

 the descent to the beach by the Torre walk ; it grows there in rather 

 a small quantity, and the lower plants are much stunted from being 

 so frequently gathered, as I believe is the case, indeed none of it was 

 equal in size to that near St. Ites. Erodium maritimum, Chlora per- 

 foliata, &c., are common there. At Linton the Hieracia become 

 more abundant, some of the ferns also are fine there ; Euphorbia 

 hiberna grows in the wood near the "Waters meet" ; Erodium mariti- 

 mum and Sedum anglicum too are frequent. Meconopsis cambrica near 

 the West Lyn. At Exeter I gathered Bromus madritensis, on a wall 

 in a street opposite the Clarence Hotel, which probably is the one 

 referred lo in the Botanist's Guides. 



And now I will conclude this detail of localities, many of which 

 may be considered only as verifications of what was before known ; 

 but even this may not be useless, in a day when cultivation and the 

 ravages of collectors so often injure or destroy old-established locali- 

 ties. Sufficient, I doubt not, has been said to prove Cornwall a very 

 interesting county in a botanical point of view, and one that would 

 richly repay a careful investigation, especially in the Lizard and west- 

 ern districts. 



George Stagey Gibson. 



Saffron Walclen. 



