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Of the thirteen species of Violas now accepted as British, we 

 can count twelve for Cornwall, with several varietal forms. 

 Eleven of onr fourteen wild Gleraniums have been recorded for 

 the county at one time or other ; six of the eight species of 

 Myosotis, and five of the six kinds of Verhascums. 



In that class of plants which engaged the thoughtful 

 attention of Charles Darwin, and inspired that entrancing book, 

 " Carnivorous Plants," it was thought at one time Cornwall was 

 very poor. I am now able to state that the whole of the British 

 Sundews may be found on our bogs, two of them being very 

 common objects indeed. Of the five species of Bladderworts 

 (Utricularias) I have quite recently collected four in mid and 

 west Cornwall, and have been able to add several new stations 

 for their occurrence. The third class of insect-feeding plants, 

 the Pinguiculas, are represented by two species, or one-half of 

 the number recorded for the British Isles. In other words, of 

 the twelve carnivorous plants found in Great Britain and Ireland, 

 nine of them may be gathered in our own county by the pains- 

 taking botanist. 



Mention must be made of my experience with Corrigiola 

 littoralis, perhaps the gem of the Loe Pool, and Sypericum 

 Unarifolium. In his "Week at the Lizard," Johns tells us 

 Corrigiola occurs some years in' plenty on one side of the Pool 

 and other years in equal abundance on the other side, a 

 peculiarity which other botanists have verified. Ten or fifteen 

 years ago one could go to Loe Pool and collect five hundred 

 plants in one hour without the slightest twitch of conscience, but 

 during the last haK-dozen years Corrigiola has undergone such a 

 deplorable diminution that I have been unable to hear of anyone 

 who has filled a vacancy in his herbarium from this place for 

 quite two years. I have myself made several ineffectual attempts 

 to find it, and, among others, I am acquainted with two excellent 

 botanists who spent several weeks along the shores of the Loe 

 without meeting a trace of the plant. Just yet it is rather too 

 early to say Corrigiola has become extinct in Cornwall, but it is 

 almost certain that no one has found it since Mr. J. D. Enys, 

 F.G-.S., gathered a single plant in August, 1897. Happily, 

 although for a time it seems to have disappeared from Cornish 

 soil, it is still found on Slapton Sands and near Start Point, in 

 Devonshire. 



