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E. L a thy r us, Linn. 



5. Degembris, Newlyn East, Tresidder, R./.C., /9//, f>. 387. 

 Wheal Kitty Downs, St. Agnes, 1914, Rilstone. 



Mercurialis perennis, Linn. 



The first record (Flora) should read : T. Q. Couch in Pol. Rep., 



1848. 



In Journal of Botany, 1909, p. 390, the Editor writes : 



' There is, we think, little doubt that the kind of Mercury 

 with leaves like spinage, referred to by Borlase in a passage 

 placed by Mr. Davey under Mercurialis perennis is Cheno- 

 podium Bonus-Henricus, which in Lincolnshire is called Mar- 

 query, and eaten as spinage." 



M. annua, Linn. 



3. One plant by roadside near New Road, Looe, 1916, but not 



seen since, Mrs. and H. M. M. Perrycoste. Ballast-heap, 



Charlestown, 1920, Tresidder. 



URTICACE/E. 



Genus Ulmus, 



Since the publication of the Flora, much work has been done 

 on the British Elms, and a little on those occurring in Cornwall. 

 Although much remains to be done, a few tentative observations 

 may be useful. I had the advantage, in 1911, of having the 

 trees around Newquay named by Dr. C. E. Moss. The study 

 of the Elms is complicated by the different names adopted by 

 various writers. C. C. Vigurs. 



Ulmuf glabra, Hudson (U. montana, Stokes ; U. scabra, Miller) . 

 Wych Elm. 



Probably rarer than the records in the Flora would suggest, 

 and some of them should probably be transferred to U. 

 major, Sm. 

 5. Two authentic trees at Trevowah, Crantock, Vigurs, B.E.C., 



1914, *>. 160. 

 8. Love Lane. Penzance, 1921, Thurston. 



