26 BOTANICAL NOTES FROM. SOUTH DEVON. 
giant world, the roof of a small sea-cave is adorned with Asple- 
nium marinum, and near it the A. Ruta-muraria. Here, m these 
caves too, where the rise and fall of the waves sound like oft-re- 
peated distant thunder, may be collected numerous seaweeds of 
every hue. In my walk from this beautiful spot to Torquay, I 
gathered Linum angustifolium (very fine and abundant), Sedum 
anglicum, Fumaria capreolata, a single specimen of Euphorbia 
Paralias, Senecio sylvaticu, Beta vulgaris, Plantago Coronopus 
and maritima, and Lepidium Smithii. This Lepidium 1 found 
plentiful in every part of Devonshire I visited, and more com- 
mon than the L. campestre. On a steep crumbling embankment 
(formerly part of the cliff) by the new road east of Torquay, and 
not far from Hesketh Crescent, I saw two plants of the rare 
Lotus hispidus (Desf.). I am not aware that it has ever been 
mentioned as growing in this locality before. There might be 
more, but not looking very attentively I only saw two dense tufts. 
I afterwards looked for L. angustissimus near Bishop’s Teign- 
ton, but failed to find it. At Daddy’s Hole, near Torquay—a 
singular rocky and precipitous indentation—many plants com- 
mon to the coast were growing, as well as Orobanche Hedere ; 
and on the plain above, Helianthemum polifolium was very plen- 
tiful. Centranthus ruber is very common about Torquay, but no- 
where that I saw it, deserving to be called wild; the most na- 
tural habitat I found in Devonshire for it was on a steep marly 
cliff near Dawlish. 
Returning by railway, I spent a couple of hours on the War- 
ren near Dawlish. Here were growing Carex arenaria, Bar- 
barea precox, Trifolium subterraneum, Glaux maritima, Arenaria 
marina, Festuca uniglumis, Trifolium arvense, Calystegia Sol- ° 
danella, Scirpus maritimus, Triglochin maritimum, ‘Erodium cicu- 
tarium with white flowers (this white variety is far commoner 
about South Devon, particularly in sandy spots near the sea, 
than the usual coloured flower), and “Honckenya peploides. I 
likewise found a variety of the Honckenya, some of which were 
six or eight inches high, slender-branched, and almost destitute 
of petals,—in fact the petals appeared more like small scales. I 
saw this only in one spot, at the Dawlish end of the Warren. 
In and near a wood about three miles north of Exeter, I gathered 
Mellittis Melissophyllum, Resa villosa, Ginanthe pimpinelloides, 
Vaccinium Myrtilius, Pyrus Aucuparia, Aspidium spinulosum 
