354 DEVON PLANTS. \I)ecemher, 



as I have seen it on sand-heaps by the river Meavy^ between the 

 village and Hoo Meavy. On examining my specimens of Rhyn- 

 cliospora I was struck with the peculiar way in which this plant 

 perpetuates itself and increases by forming almost semibulbous 

 shoots within the sheaths at the base of the stalk, which shoots 

 when quite rootless ; a touch is in some cases sufficient to de- 

 tach it from the parent stem. This plant also grows in a bog 

 near the Virtuous Lady Mine. Eleocharis multicaulis seems to 

 be more plentiful than E. palusf.ris in this neighbourhood, as I 

 have also found it near Whistman's Wood, Dartmoor, in a bog 

 near the Virtuous Lady Mine, and at " The Combe,^^ a small 

 bog in the parish of Egg Buckland, about four miles from Ply- 

 mouth. 



On the 18th of September I collected some fine specimens of 

 Lycopodiuin Selago from a mighty tor, called, I believe, Lydford, 

 between the West Dart and Cowsic rivers, and also saw it, more 

 sparingly however, at another tor in the same neighbourhood. 

 It was only found in earth in crevices between the stones that 

 form the grand masses always called tors in the neighbourhood, 

 and was not seen on the ground around. I once, however, and 

 once only, found a small plant on one of the leat-banks on Ro- 

 borough Down. From a damp pasture almost on the borders of 

 Dartmoor, and near Walkhampton, I, on the 30th of August, 

 collected some fine specimens of Alchemilla vulgaris, which spe- 

 cies I have never seen anywhere else in this neighbourhood. A 

 few years ago I found a patch of another subalpine plant, 

 Antennaria dioica, on E-oborough Down, but have not subse- 

 quently been able to find it; on the 15th of last September, 

 however, when crossing part of the Down, I was delighted to 

 meet with another patch of this pretty plant. Centunculus mi- 

 nimus occurs in so many spots on this large common that it may 

 be said to be not rare there. It frequently grows in company 

 with the elegant little Radiola Millegrana, and, like it, affects 

 damp spots where the herbage is scanty. Besides these two 

 plants a botanist may find on this down Drosera rotundifolia, 

 Sagina subulata, Ulex nanus (very abundant), Laihyrus macro- 

 rliizus var. tenuifolius, Ornithoptis jyerjmsilhts, Peplis Portida, 

 Epilobium palustre, Carliaa vulgaris, Wahknbergia hederacea, 

 Erica Tetralix with white flowers (very sparingly), Gentiana 

 campestris, Pedicularis palustris, Veronica scutellata, Scutellaria 



