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leaves vary much in breadth, and depth of indentation, on the same 

 branch ; the acute, entire, wedge-shaped base of them is, however, 

 characteristic. P. scandica of Babington, with the leaves deeply cut 

 and lobed, and serrated to the base, I have gathered on the cliffs near 

 Minehead, North Devon. Whether a good species or not, it has no 

 appearance of being a hybrid, as suggested by Dr. Walker Arnott; in 

 the sixth edition of Hooker's 'British Flora.' The celebrated Castle 

 Dinas plant, now queried in the latter work, is really a mere variety 

 of P. Aria. Tn the autumn I observed perfect fruit of Aria, which is 

 bright, polished red, crov\ned with the persistent floccose calyces. 

 The pomes are very variable in size. , 



Orobanche Hedene. This plant was growing among the ivy that 

 overspread many of the precipitous rocks fronting the sea at "Daddy's 

 Hole ;" and I observed much of it also both at Anstey's Cove and 

 among the rocks of Babbicombe. Surely this species of Orobanche 

 must have much increased of late years, for it is unnoticed in Smith's 

 'English Flora' or the second edition of Hooker, yet is now found 

 to be generally dispersed and plentiful all along the coasts of Wales 

 and the south of England. I gathered it this year on Brean Down, 

 Somerset. I penned the following description from a fine and perfect 

 fresh specimen, parasitical on ivy at Anstey's Cove : — " Stem fourteen 

 inches in height, dull purple at the base, bright vinaceous above, 

 where it is closely covered with white, glandular, clammy hairs ; 

 flowers rather numerous, extending half way down the stem, generally 

 more than twenty ; corolla tubular, curved, and spreading horizon- 

 tally, at first of a pallid primrose colour, tinged with purple on the 

 upper part, with longitudinal purple veins, slightly glandular-hairy 

 along the ridge of the upper limb ; upj)er limb of corolla wavy, denticu- 

 late, strongly veined within, lower in three lobes, each tripartite, mid- 

 dle one longest, the lateral lobes denticulate; bracts hairy-glandular, as 

 long as the corolla, their points curved downwards in maturity ; calyx 

 downy-glandular, the sepals with long, subulate, unequal points, and 

 strongly nerved ; stamens inserted a little above the base of the 

 corolla, quite glabrous, or with only a few inconspicuous hairs on the 

 lower half; ovary smooth, yellow; style glabrous or slightly scurfy, as 

 seen through a lens, stigma smooth, yellow, the lobes cohering, with 

 scarcely any division." 



Viburnum Lantana. Abundant about " Daddy's Hole," and now 

 exhibiting green fruit. 



June 9. — Visited Watcombe, a singular, broken cove at the sea- 

 side, about six miles from Teignmouth, on the old road to Torquay. 



