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their records referred to Mr. Couch's. Douht is east on the 

 occurrence of the jilant in Cornwall in the third edition of 

 Topographical Botany, (1883), and it must not he forgotten that 

 nearly sixty years have elapsed without any verification of 

 Couch's record. 



Viola lafea, Hnds. Dr. W. P. Cocks, who recorded this in 

 the Annual lieport of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 

 1863, for "held at Trescobeas, near Falmouth, " and the Rev. J. 

 S. Tozer, on whose authority it was included in the second edition 

 of Hooker's British Flora (1831), for the Land's End, were both 

 excellent botanists, but here also we must be cautious. No one 

 has been able to verify either record, and it is significant that the 

 author of Topographical Botany entertained very serious doubts 

 about the occurrence of the plant in Devon and Cornwall. I 

 would suggest that V. Curtisii, Forster, was the plant seen in 

 both instances, a view which is shared by the Rev. W. Moyle 

 Rogers, F.L.S. Further evidence must be forthcoming if T'. 

 liitea is to be retained as a Cornish plant. 



Franlccnia law is, Linn. Quite an eastern counties plant, 

 which was recorded for "an old wall at St. Michael's Mount" by 

 Mr. Pascoe in the Botanical Gazette, 1850. It was originally 

 planted, and has long been lost sight of. 



Rosa mollis, Sm. The records are: — "Between Millbrook 

 and Crafthole," Rev. John Pike Jones, in A Botanical Tour through 

 various parts of the counties of Devon and Cornwall (1820), and 

 " Fowey," Mrs. AV. J. Gi'aham, in my List. Mr. James Groves, 

 F.L.S. , writes: — "I think most of the southern recoi'ds for this 

 are open to doubt; sj^ecimens should be seen." From the Rev. 

 W. Moyle Rogers I have received the following : — " Surely very 

 doubtful; almost certainly a form of R. tomentosar 



Rosa sepium, Thuill, and var. inodora^Fv.). As this is not a 

 west-country rose, the records for Falmouth district, by H. C. 

 Bastian, in the Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society, 1856, and by E. liullmore, in the manuscript Flora of 

 West Cornwall, by the late Dr. Ralfs, must be placed under some 

 other species, probably R. micrantha. 



Callitriche autumnalis, Linn. Mr. James Groves' note on this 

 is as follows: — "Most improbable. C, hamnlata has been fre- 



