23 BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH DEVON. 
Some beautiful sea views were obtained in walking from Ex- 
mouth to Budleigh Salterton on the cliffs. Far the greater part of 
the way there is in reality no shore, the sea at high water wash- 
ing the rugged perpendicular heights, and at low water that which 
should be beach consists of large masses of stone imbedded in the 
earth, and covered with slimy seaweeds of every hue. Just before 
arriving at Budleigh Salterton I came upon a glorious botanical 
spot—a botanist’s paradise. The majority of visitors would have 
passed it as a dark, unwholesome, miry bog, although it was quite 
white in places with the pendulous, downy clusters of the beau- 
tiful Cotton Grass (Eriophorum angustifolium). But I saw trea- 
sures for my vasculum, and at once plunged half knee-deep into 
dense beds of Sphagnum, underlaid with the dirtiest and most. 
adhesive of all mud I ever encountered. When at Sidmouth I 
slipped into a hole in the cliffs, and so bemarled myself with that 
peculiar deposit that I had to wash myself and clothes in the 
sea, I thought I had met with the worst; but that was purity it- 
self to the Budleigh bog. Well, here I gathered Drosera rotun- 
difolia, D. longifolia, Pinguicula Lusitanica, Narthecium ossifra- 
gum, and many other excellent plants. 
Leaving Budleigh on my right, I took the high road back to 
Exmouth, and soon encountered another bog, own brother to the 
one just named. Here, in addition to the plants just mentioned, 
I found Anagallis tenella, Myosotis repens, Carex fulva, C. puli- 
caris, and Osmunda regalis. By the roadside I saw Ulex nanus 
and Ruscus aculeatus. On returning to Starcross I gathered 
Smyrnium Olusatrum. Near Countess Weir, two miles below 
Exeter, I found very fine Medicago maculata, and noticed that 
the damper the situation the less visible was the black spot on 
the leaves; so much so, that where its place of growth became 
very moist the leaves became iwmmaculate. I have noticed this 
nowhere else; but friends to whom I have mentioned it say that 
they have seen it, and it is their belief that the spot that gives 
the specific name to this plant is by no means permanent. 
Lathyrus sylvestris, Vicia Bithynica, Silene maritima, Anthemis 
arvensis, ete., grow plentifully about Teignmouth; and at the 
Devil’s Point, Stonehouse, near Plymouth, I found Cnicus erio- 
phorus, Trifolium scabrum, Asplenium marinum, Cochlearia Da- 
nica, Koniga maritima, and, the celebrity of the spot, Eryngium 
campestre. This concluded my botanizing in South Devon. I 
