250 BOTA^^ICAL REPORT. 



Euphrasia brevipila, Burn, et Grem. Miuster, 1885, rev. 

 W. Jloyle Rocjem. Plentiful in patches on Quintrell Downs, and 

 by roadsides near. There was also (1902) on Quintrell Downs a 

 jilant ajiparently a hybrid between ncinorosa and gracilis, C. C. 

 Vigurs. 



E. nemorosa, H. Mart. This is the common roadside and 

 meadow form, found everywhere from the Tamar to the Land's 

 End. 



E. curta, Fries. A stunted plant on Newquay Headland is 

 thought by Mr. Townsend to belong to the variety glahrescens. 

 Mullion Cove, rev. ll\ Moijle Rogers. 



E. occidentalis, AVettst. Efford Down, Bude, 1882; 

 Widmovith, 1883; Boscastle, 1885, rev. TT\ IloyJe Rogers. Grolf 

 Links, Newquay ; Perranporth, plentiful where it grows, 6'. C. 

 T'igurs. Kynance Cove and Downs south of Mullion, rev. W. 

 2Ioyle Rogers. Kynance, J. Cunnaclc, Herh. rev. W. Jloyle Rogers. 

 Carbis Bay ; Marazion Marsh ; Pra Sands ; Sennen Grreen, Dr. 

 Rolfs. Land's End, Arthur Bennett. 



E. gracilis, Fries. Plentiful on Quintrell Downs, and near 

 Victoria Inu, Koche. Easily distinguished by the wiry, strict 

 branches, with very small leaves, and the whole plant reddish 

 brown, C. C. Vigurs. Kynance Downs, and Downs south of 

 Mullion, rev. W. Moyle Rogers. Chy-an-hal ; near New Bridge ; 

 Sennen, Dr. Rolfs. Near Penzance, Arthur Dennett. 



E. RostkoYiana, Hayne. Between Bridgerule and Whit- 

 stone, 1886 ; Boscastle, 1885, rev. W. Moyle Rogers. Newlyu 

 East Downs, not very plentiful, and apparenLly over a small 

 area, C. C. Vigurs. 



4. EXCLUSIONS. 



Every botanist who has undertaken the j)i'tiparation of a 

 county flora has found it as necessary to concern himself with 

 what he should keep out of his list as with what he should 

 include. Through confusion of nomenclature, carelessness on the 

 part of helpers, and a lack of critical knowledge by many of the older 

 botanists, records of the most surprising kind have been made 

 for probably every British county. A new era will have dawned 

 on botanical topography when observers have become alive to 

 the necessity of preserving voucher specimens for all critical 



