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Ireland for research work, wliich. were kept in a soup plate of 

 water in his window. Sometime after, being about to start on a 

 prolonged botanical excursion to Wales, and fearing the plants 

 would be neglected during his absence. Dr. Ealfs deposited them 

 in a secluded spot on Tremethick Moor, a few miles west of 

 Penzance. Illness prevented him from fetching them back on 

 his return, and when he was able to go to the Moor to look for 

 them no trace of the plants could be found. Some years 

 afterwards Mr. W. Curnow, an enthusiastic Cornish botantist, 

 rushed into Dr. Ealfs' study in a state of excitement, and 

 announced that he had discovered PinguicuJa grandiflora on 

 Tremethick Moor, at the same time asserting tbat it would rank 

 among the botanical sensations of the year ! The Doctor 

 accompanied Mr. Curnow to the Moor, and after admiring the 

 hundreds of plants scattered about, told his companion how they 

 got there. 



Euphorhia Peplis, Linn. On page 193 of my List I state 

 that "in all probability this plant disappeared from Cornwall 

 many years ago." As a matter of fact at the time when the 

 List was published no one appears to have found it west 

 of the Tamar since 1852, when it was gathered on St. Agnes, 

 one of the Scilly Isles, by a Mr. Woods, and as it is a fast 

 vanishing species in other parts of England it seemed a safe 

 assumption that after fifty years without a single record for 

 Cornwall it had disappeared from the county. I am glad to be 

 able to say such is not the case. Seeing the doubt expressed in 

 my List of the plant now occurring on Cornish soil, Mr. E. N. 

 Milne, of Blackheath, wrote me saying he had found it at 

 Porthellick Bay, St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, in 1900, at the same 

 time forwarding a voucher specimen. This will be welcome news 

 to Cornish botanists in particular, and to British botanists in 

 general. 



