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hybrida. The cliffs resounded with the screams of the hobby hawk, 

 who kept flying restlessly about while I was upon the spot, probably 

 having young in some cranny of the rock. 



Orobanche ametliystea. Under the railway wall next the beach 

 between Dawlish and Langstone Cliff, I observed a brilliant amethys- 

 tine-hued Orobanche, probably the O. ametliystea, Thuill. It was 

 very evidently parasitical upon Plantago Coronopus, having so got 

 upon its roots as to elevate the Plantago, in a shrivelled state, between 

 its own stems. 1 made the following note of it while in a fresh state : 

 — " Stem pale below, bright vinaceous purple and very hairy-glandu- 

 lar above ; bracts very hairy, pointed, almost as long as the corolla, re- 

 curved at the point ; sepal sfinely hairy, bifid, narrow and sharp-pointed, 

 not so long as the tube of the corolla ; corolla tubular, remarkably bent 

 on its first expansion, yellowish-brown at the base, above beautifully 

 tinged with purple, with longitudinal darker streaks, interior brownish, 

 with purple lines, upper lip wavy and denticulate, lower lip in three 

 slightly unequal, notched divisions ; stamens white, hairy only at the 

 base ; style purple, polished, smooth, stigma smooth, with slightly- 

 divaricated lobes. Much more glandular and hairy than O. minor, 

 for its clammy exudation had not only caused the stem to be covered 

 with particles of sand, but these stuck even to the scabrous upper 

 tube of the corolla." 



June 7. — After some showery weather I took advantage of a splen- 

 did summer's day to make a traverse to Torquay and Anstey's Cove, 

 the latter noted as a locality for several rare plants. Having described 

 this in detail (Phytol. iv. 236), I shall only here observe that, not 

 taking the nearest way, I accidentally stumbled upon "Daddy's Hole," 

 so called, a remarkable broken chasm in the limestone rock, with a 

 precipitous descent to the sea, which well deserves a visit from bota- 

 nist or tourist. The rocks here were covered with the local Helian- 

 themum polifolium, in full flower, its silver petals giving a transitory 

 beauty to a spot that must be dismal enough when shrouded by the 

 tempest or swept by the cutting gale. The Helianthemum has here 

 a very wiry and shrubby aspect, its hoary leaves often so revolute as 

 to appear like legumes : sepals and capsules densely tomentose. 

 Hippocrepis comosa was also in flower on the face of the cliff; and 

 the turfy down was beautiful with abundance of the rosy-tinged Spi- 

 raea Filipendula. , 



Pyrus Aria. On several scarcely accessible spots on the face of 

 the cliff at " Daddy's Hole," as well as at Anstey's Cove, but the 

 flowers past perfection. Doubtless this is the true Aria; but the 



