RARE PLANTS NEAR CALLINGTON. 5E 



the fat rotundity of the fleshy leaf. Close at hand may be found 

 other bog-plants mentioned as growing in the neighbourhood of 

 Truro; e.g., Scutellaria minor, Viola pahistris, and the greasy little 

 Pale Butterwort (Pinguiada Lusitanica). Cam-panula Jiederacew, 

 mentioned above, abounds in every shady lane. Helleborus viridis 

 grows on the roadside hedge between Callington and Penter's 

 Cross. Oxalis corniciilata clings to little crevices on a rock near 

 Pillaton, and continues to produce its yellow flowers throughout 

 the winter. Sedum telepliium grows on a hedge near St. Mellion ; 

 and in the Eectory garden in the same parish the little Neottia 

 spiralis used to send up its spiral spike in spite of the scythe; 

 but the more frequent cutting with the mowing machine has pre- 

 vented it from making its appearance this year. The Butterfly 

 Orchis (Hahenaria hifolia) may frequently be met with in a 

 plantation near Reason ; and Iris fcetidissima grows in the lanes of 

 Botus-Fleming and Landulph. The berries of the latter are- 

 useful for Christmas decorations when holly-berries are scarce. 



With regard to Ferns and their allies, Ceterach offidnarum is 

 common on all the old walls of several farm-houses, and attains 

 an unusual size ; it grows side by side with Aspleniimt ruta-muraria 

 and A. trichomanes. Asplenium laizceolahim, common further west, 

 is here very rare ; many persons go to the Morwell Rocks, on the 

 other side of the Tamar, to procure specimens ; but there is one 

 little nook on the Callington side in which it grows plentifully. 

 The Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) grows luxuriantly in many 

 valleys ; and the rare Moon- wort (Botrychium lunaria), at^d the 

 curious Stag's-horn Moss (Lycopodium clavatum), may both be 

 found on Kingston Down. 



