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mentions this plant as " growing by a well, on the road to Looe, 

 apparently in a wild state." However true that statement may 

 have been fifty years ago, the habitat has long been destroyed ; 

 and, but for the discovery, by Mr. J. D. Enys, of one colony in 

 the Upper Fowey Valley and another near Liskeard, and by Mr. 

 W. Wise of a batch near Launceston, Spircea salicifoUa would 

 have to be dropped from our county's flora. It has long 

 established itself in Devon. 



Between Gunwalloe and Poldhu, and again between Looe 

 and Polperro, Mr. Hume has gathered Poterium polygamum, 

 Waldst. and Kit. This record brings Cornwall into line with 

 Devon. 



In many respects the most interesting addition to our flora 

 is JEryngiuyn campestre, Linn. Ray appears to have been the first 

 to discover it in Grreat Britain, the place being " on a rock which 

 you descend to the Ferry, from Plymouth over into Cornwall," 

 and the date, July 7th, 1662. In this instance Devon got the 

 start of the sister county by over two centuries. Who was the 

 first to find it on Cornish soil, I am unable to ascertain. Suffice 

 it to say its presence has been known to a discreet few for nearly 

 thirty years, and with a commendable solicitude for its welfare 

 they managed to keep the secret until this summer, when the 

 peregrinations of Mr. Hume brought it to light. It would be 

 madness to give information of its whereabouts other than that 

 it is somewhere in the neighbourhood of Looe. Not long after 

 sharing the secret of this discovery with our industrious 

 co-worker, Mr. Tellam, we were delighted to hear that he had 

 unearthed another colony fifteen miles or so further west. 



Not far from the Looe habitat of the preceding plant I have 

 made an addition to our flora in the form of (Enanthe silaifolia, 

 Biberstein. This completes the western chain in the 

 geographical distribution of this species. 



At Bodmin Mr. Tellam has found Archangelica officinalis, 

 Hoffm., and during the past summer I saw a fine plant of this 

 species at Portscatho. This, and Coriandrum sativum, Linn., a 

 discovery of Mr. Tellam' s at St. Blazey, are new to Cornwall, 

 and have yet to be recorded from Devon. 



