THE PHYTOLOGIST 



FOR 1851. 



Restoration of Euphorbia Peplis to one of its old Localities, with 

 Observations on a few other Cornish Plants, found in the early 

 part of October, 1850. By Edward T. Bennett, Esq. 



In the appendix to the ' Guide to Penzance and its Neighbourhood ' 

 the botanical portion of which is understood to be edited by that acute 

 observer, John Ralfs, the Euphorbia Peplis is stated to have disap- 

 peared from its former locality on Marazion Green, which is the 

 designation of the grassy, sandy shore extending from the eastern 

 extremity of the town of Penzance to St. Michael's Mount, and where 

 I know it has recently been searched for in vain by several good 

 botanists. I thought it would be interesting to the readers of the 

 * Phytologist,' and to the lovers of our more local plants, to know 

 that it has again appeared there this season, having had the pleasure 

 to detect a fair number of specimens, growing on the rough, sandy 

 ground, quite at the verge of the vegetation, and confined to a very 

 limited area along the beach, on the 8th of last October. 



We were much too late in the season to expect to find many of the 

 Cornish rarities ; but it may be interesting to record the permanence 

 of some of the localities, and at how advanced a period in the year 

 several plants of very local distribution may still be picked up, under 

 a very limited command of time and opportunity. 



One of our first objects was to see and gather Erica vagans. We 

 proceeded accordingly to Hayle, and then directed our steps to Con- 

 nor Downs, nearly along the line of the railway, towards Camborne. 

 About two miles from the Hayle station we pounced upon the first 

 small patch of an unmistakably new heath, at the foot of a bank 

 along the side of the road. This was seized upon as a great prize, 

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