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(Enanthe pimpinelloides. I found this Qinanthe occupying the red 

 sandstone cliffs between Bndleigh Salterton and Exmouth in strong 

 force, on dry, hard ground, just as it occurs in Worcestershire. Yet 

 it grew very luxuriantly in such spots; while on the sea-beach not a 

 single specimen occurred. I also noticed it growing finely on a dry 

 bank on the way to the old church of St. John in the Wilderness. 

 The first, with expanded flowers, was noted on the 30th of May. Mr. 

 Babington, in his Manual, has indicated 7 — 9 as its period of flower- 

 ing, the same as for QC. Lachenalii ; but even about Worcester ffi. 

 pimpinelloides is always in full flower in the 6th month, and is in 

 fruit when QE. Lachenalii commences flowering, a month later. The 

 practical collecting botanist will find this worth attending to. Some 

 very tall specimens I gathered had long general as well as partial 

 involucres ; but this is not usually the case. The broad-lobed radi- 

 cal leaflets, often extending quite flat upon the surface of the ground, 

 will always distinguish this plant from its congeners, if not in a faded 

 state. This being so local a plant, I was desirous to trace its pro- 

 gress westward ; but its frequency seemed to diminish in that direc- 

 tion, though I found it again, on a bank of red marl, above the river 

 Teign, on the road from Teignmouth to Newton. I also met with a 

 considerable quantity of CE. pimpinelloides, growing on hard lime- 

 stone ground at the foot of Torre Hill, about a mile from Torquay. 

 The last 1 saw of it was in a meadow on the banks of the river Dart, 

 near Totness. It has not as yet, I believe, been found either in Corn- 

 wall or Wales. It is remarkable that Jones, in his ' Botanical Tour 

 through Devon' (1820), who went over a good deal of the same ground 

 I did, makes no mention of this plant, or, indeed, of any other 

 GEnanthe. 



May 28. — At Budleigh Salterton, roaming along the shores of the 

 pretty little river Otter, which was beautified with the white flowers of 

 the lowly scurvy-grass {Cochlearia officinalis) along its level margin, 

 opposite an expansion of the stream that surrounds a flat island, 

 green with sea-weed or Confervse. On the sandy margin of the river, 

 near a timber bridge, a patch of Trifolium subterraneum appeared, its 

 slender cream-coloured flowers making a pretty show, though the 

 stems of the plants scarcely appeared emergent from the ground. 



Walked by the summit of the cliffs (all red marl, based upon red 

 sandstone) from Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth, a singularly-pleasing 

 ramble, varied at almost every step by shelving, precipitous cliffs or 

 broken coombs, like the "chines" of the Isle of Wight, wherever 

 a little stream broke through the yielding strata from the interior 



