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there, I drove off to Hessenford, distant 2j miles, where I passed the 

 night. Hessenford is beautifully situated in a well wooded valley, 

 with cottages surrounded by orchards, its mill-stream and church. 

 Hieracium umbellatum is common in this part of the county, and 

 from the new road to Seaton I observed by the river side Tussilago 

 Petasites, with leaves nearly two feet across. 



Nine o'clock the next morning saw me on Seaton Sands. I pro- 

 bably spent more than hour here, searching the shore and adjacent 

 ground for the Euphorbia. The sands are of no great extent ; fish- 

 ing-nets were drying on one part, and sea-weed for manure, in large 

 heaps, was rotting in another ; so that setting aside the rapacity of 

 botanists, if the poor Euphorbia grow here, it is not very likely to es- 

 cape destruction at no very distant day. A group of Atriplex rosea, 

 all female plants, and of the deepest purple, covered a piece of 

 ground where a heap of sea-weed had stood. Polygonum Raii was 

 mixed with P. aviculare : I do not recollect ever having seen them in 

 company before. 



My course was now directed along the beach, but the rocky shores 

 in many places projecting into the sea, and finding nothing more re- 

 markable than Carex distans and Atriplex laciniata, I struck up 

 across the country towards Crafthole. Here I again diverged towards 

 the coast, and in a short time, amid thickets abounding in Rubia 

 peregrina, descended the cliff, by a narrow pathway, at Whitsand Bay. 



Whitsand Bay, or White-sand Bay, for it is spelled either way, is 

 certainly something of a misnomer ; a few yards of brown sand along 

 the base of the cliffs is all to distinguish it from the rocky coast with 

 which it is continuous ; it is, however, a spot of great interest to the 

 botanist. In addition to many other rarities, here Orobanche ame- 

 thystea rears its remarkable form, and in Great Britain only here. 

 We are indebted to the Rev. W. S. Hore (Phytol. ii. 239) for having 

 brought this plant under the notice of British botanists, although it 

 was discovered many years before by the Rev. C. A. Johns. It is 

 constantly parasitic on Daucus maritimus, and flowering in June, but 

 the persistent corollas gave it the appearance of being still in full 

 bloom. A revision of the English, better still of the European spe- 

 cies of Orobanche, is a desideratum, and to any botanist wishing to 

 undertake it, I shall be happy next season to forward fresh specimens 

 of our rarer Cornish ones, viz., O. rubra, amethystea and Hederae. 

 Inula Crithmoides was just coming into flower, Statice spathulata 

 and Euphorbia Portlandica were, on the other hand, going out, never- 

 theless I gathered excellent specimens of the three. Jones, in his 



