BOTANICAL REPORT. 239 



1. PLANTS NEW TO CORNWALL. 



My " Tentative List " of Cornish jtlants credits tlie county 

 with forty-six species of hramhles. Until tliis summer notliing 

 of importance had heen added to the list as few, if any, of onr 

 local botanists have yet contracted the " hramhle fever." 

 During the months of July and August we were visited by such 

 eminent students of this extensive and difficult section as the 

 rev. AV. Movie Eogers, the rev. F. A. Rogers and Mr. G. Claridge 

 Druce, and as a result of their observations the number of species 

 now known to occur in Cornwall has been increased to fifty-three, 

 with four additional sub-species and three varieties. In his 

 recently published ''Flora of Hampshire," Mr. Townsend 

 enumerates seventy species of brambles for that county, "which 

 perhaps, with one exception, makes Hampshire richest in 

 brambles of all the counties in England." When we remember 

 that for botanical purposes Hampshire (including the Isle of 

 Wight) has an area of 1,032,105 acres, while Cornwall has only 

 887,740 acres, I think we may justly claim the latter as one of 

 the bramble counties of (Jreat Britain. In this direction there is 

 still much to be done, and I shall feel grateful to any resident 

 botanists who have the leisure and the ability if they will embark 

 on such an important work. 



Fumaria occidentalis, Pugsley. In the "Journal of 

 Botany" for August, 1904, Mr. H. W. Pugsley published a full 

 account of this new species. The next issue of the "Journal" 

 contained an excellent plate of the jilant, also the work of 

 Mr. Pugsley, and through the kind services of Mr. J. D. Enys per- 

 mission has been obtained from the editor to use the illustration 

 for the present paper. The plant has been drawn about four-iifths 

 natural size, and there is a detached flower and fruits showing 

 profile and rugosity as seen when dry, about twice natural size. 



There are many things about the history of this recent 

 discovery which combine to give it more than usual interest. 

 My friend and industrious co-worker. Dr. C. C. Vigurs, must be 

 credited with being the first to introduce the plant to the 

 attention of British botanists."^" Like most of us, for a few years 



* Dr. Vig-urs was present at the reading of this paper, and followed my remarks 

 with a lucid desciiption of the plant, fresh specimens of which were handed round 

 for inspection. 



