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stained with red from the colour of the rocl<, abounded in fine fruit ; 

 but nowhere upon the pure sandstone could I discover a single par- 

 ticle of it. 



Sedum glaumm, Smith, (S. reflexum, &. Bah.). In my way back 

 to Teignraouth I gathered a very glaucous Sedum, growing on a mass 

 of conglomerate rock by the road-side, which is probably the plant of 

 Smith, in Eng. Floi-a, being a more slender and elegant plant than 

 reflexum, the leaves narrower and sharper pointed, and the lower ones 

 not recurved. It was just showing for flower; the cymes recurved, 

 smaller and less crowded than in S. reflexum; sepals elliptical, petals 

 very pale yellow. 



Potentllla Tormentilla, var. reptans. This occurred on the road- 

 side, in full flower; and from much observation of it I should dissever 

 it as distinct from officinalis, as Linnaeus did. Surely the creeping 

 habit, and long, silvery pubescence of the leaves, well distinguish 

 reptans from oflBcinalis. The receptacle is excessively hairy, and the 

 stem often trails a great length without rooting. 



June 13. — At Anstey's Cove, near Torquay. Here the privet, 

 abundantly covering the broken rocks, was just coming into flower 

 and expanding its petals, well denoting the approach of the solstitial 

 time. Vicia sylvatica and Melittis Melissophyllum were also well in 

 flower. But Sedum rupestre, in great abundance among the limestone 

 rocks here, only as yet showed its cymes, bent downwards, with 

 unopened petals. A bramble [R. dumetorum), however, true to its 

 affinities, was showing opened flowers, though sparingly. Cornus san- 

 guinea and Agrimonia Eupatoria in like manner revealed " the time 

 of flowers" with their expanded petals, as well as Solidago Virgaurea. 



Centranihus ruber. The red valerian appeared very plentifully on 

 rocks all about Torquay, making a vivid show ; and I afterwards saw 

 it on walls at Dartmouth. 



Clematis Vitalha. Everywhere most abundant, as well on the red 

 marl about Tynemouth as on the limestone rocks at Babbicombe and 

 Torquay ; yet in a recent work on the Botany of Devonshire, by Dr. 

 Eraser Halle, no mention is made of its occurrence. 



June 14. — Ascended from Tynemouth by the old Exeter road to 

 Little Haldon Hill, progressing thence to Ashcombe, and descending 

 to Dawlish, by a deep, winding road, up hill and down dale. The 

 cheerless heights of Haldon are of the greensand formation, and their 

 surface covered over with loose flints. A sombre view appears 

 hence of the Tors of Dartmoor, robed in impervious gloom ; while the 

 intervening country in that direction appears like a desert, without an 



