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by the seashore. A much smaller plant, with shorter stems and 

 blunter and more fleshy leaves than the last. Flowers larger. 

 Meadfoot Cliffs, abundant. (E. B. t, 957.) P. vi.-vin. 



3. S. Anglica (English C.) Sandy and gravelly soils. Plant 

 from 6 inches to a foot high, much branched, slightly viscid. 

 Leaves lanceolate. Flowers single, from the axils of the leaves, 

 white, or tinged with red. Kingsteignton. Dawlish. Lustleigh. 

 (E. B. t. 1178.) A. vi.-x. 



LYCHNIS. CAMPION, LYCHNIS. 



1. !. Flos-cuculi (meadow L., or Ragged Robin.) In moist 

 meadows and pastures. Growing from 1 to 2 feet high. Stem 

 hairy below, clammy above. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers bright 

 rose-colour. Calyx and flower-stalks reddish -purple ; petals di- 

 vided into four segments. Road to Ansti's Cove. Ansti's Cove. 

 Hedge-banks on the side of the Newton road, near Kingskerswell. 

 (E. B. t. 573.) P. v. vi. 



2. L. vespertina (white Campion.) Under hedges and in 

 bushy places. rom 1 to 2 feet high, rather hairy. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate. Flowers white, sweet-smelling in the evening. Calyx 

 of the fruitful flowers much more swollen than in the barren ones. 

 Meadfoot Cliffs, and formerly on the Waldon Hill. Meadow be- 

 tween Milber down and the Newton road. (E. B. t. 1580.) B. 

 or P. vi.-ix. 



3. Ii. diurna (red C.) Woods and damp hedge-banks, com- 

 mon. Somewhat like the last. Leaves more ovate. Flowers 

 rose-coloured, very rarely white. Torre Abbey fields. Banks and 

 hedges in all the lanes, etc. (E. B, t. 1579.) L. dioica. Linn. 

 P. vi.-ix. 



AGROSTEMMA. COCKLE 



A. Githago (corn Cockle.) In cornfields, very abundant. 

 Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, sometimes slightly branched, covered 

 with long, soft, whitish hairs. Leaves narrow-lanceolate. Flowers 

 large, bright reddish-purple, on long stalks ; divisions of the 

 calyx exceedingly long, projecting in long points beyond the petals. 

 Cornfields everywhere. (E. B. t. 741.) Lychnis Githago, Bab. 

 A. vi.-vili. 



SUBOED. II. ALSINEJ3. 

 SAGINA. PEAKLWOET. 

 1. S. procumbens (annual small-floivered P.) In waste 



