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queutly recorded for this; but C. truncata is quite likely to 

 occur," Mr, Arthur Bennetts, F.L.S., comments thus:— "It is 

 likely the plants might have been C. truncata, which is the 

 southern representative of C. atitumnalis.'''' During the j^ast two 

 summers several correspondents have sent fresh material of this 

 genus, but in no case have I found it to contain C. autumnalis or 

 C. truncata. I think the three localities given in my List for 

 C. autumnalis should be placed under ('. Jmmidata. 



Cicuta virosa, Linn, Mr. F. T, Richards has recently written 

 me saying his Coverack record is " doubtful." It will therefore 

 not be safe to quote this as a Cornish plant. 



Galium erectum, Huds, The Bodmin specimen collected by 

 Mrs T. E, Grylls, and presented by her to the Royal Horticultural 

 Society of Cornwall, from whence it passed into the possession of 

 the Royal Institution of Cornwall, is too fragmentary for anyone 

 to pronounce an opinion on it. The Menheniot record by the 

 Cornish Moneywort Club (see my Lid) is also unreliable. In 

 both cases I think some form of G. Mollugo has been mistaken, 



Senecio palustris, DC, Mr, F. P. Pascoe marked this in his 

 Catalogue sent to H, C, Watson as an " escape," It is a Fen- 

 country plant, and has no claims to a place in a Cornish list, 



Carduus eriophorus, Roth, Of this Thistle I have never been 

 able to see a Cornish specimen. It is recorded from "near 

 Truro," by Withering, in the third edition of his Botanical 

 Arrangement of British Plants, and in my List Mr, F, T, Richards 

 is the authority for it for the Lizard district, Mr, Grroves, as the 

 following remark shows, thinks it should be excluded : — 

 " Extremely improbable. This is almost the most striking of all 

 our native Thistles, and could not well be overlooked," 



Arnoseris pusilla, Gtertn. Another of Mr, Pascoe' s records 

 to Mr, Watson which must be expunged, Devon and Cornwall 

 are not included in its range, 



Sonckus palustris, Linn, This record has been challenged by 

 a number of critical botanists. Rev. Canon Saltren Rogers, who 

 reported it for "Stream running intoPerranporth," does not insist 

 on the accuracy of the record as he did not keep a specimen, 

 consequently I see no other course than to remove the name from 

 the Cornish flora. It is quite an eastern counties plant. 



