252 BOT^usricAL report. 



heen suhmitted to Mr. Pugsley, who pronouneerT them rolnist 

 forms of F. Bora'i. In Cornwall, as elsewhere, almost 

 inextricable confusion has existed in connection with the 

 capreolate fumitories, hut it is encouraging to find that several 

 reliable observers are now giving them attention, and soon we 

 may hope to have something like an accurate account of their 

 distribution. It must not be assumed that F. mnraVin does not 

 occur in Cornwall. All that we are entitled to say at present is 

 that it is not known to occur there. That there is satisfactory 

 evidence for its presence in Devon raises the hope that it may 

 yet be found in Cornwall, and I trust every field botanist will be 

 on the look out for it. 



Isatis tinctoria, Linn. I cull the following statement 

 from p. 248 of vol. 2 of "A Book of the West ":— " The woad, 

 wherewitli our British ancestors dyed themselves, flourishes 

 abundantly in the Meneage peninsula. It has bright 3'ellow 

 flowers in panicles groAving on an upright stem, some two or 

 three feet high and appears in June and July." As far as my 

 own researches have gone, no other writer mentions the woad for 

 Cornwall, nor have I heard of any botanist who has handled 

 a Cornish specimen. There can be no doubt, I think, that the 

 rev. S. Baring-Gould was thinking of Genista tinctoria, not 

 Isatis tinctoria when he penned the above quotation. Even then, 

 his description of the plant, as bearing " bright 3'ellow flowers 

 in panicles growing on an upright stem, some two or three feet 

 high," would be quite wide of the mark. 



Stellaria nemorum, Linn. In the " Botanical Grazette," 

 1850, Mr. F. P. Pascoe mentions this plant as having been 

 found in Boconnoc Wood, near Lostwithiel. My " Tentative 

 List " credits Mr. A. 0. Hume with having collected it more 

 recently at Penzance. Of Mr. Pascoe' s specimen I can find no 

 trace. At my recj^uest Mr. Hume has lately examined his, and 

 has reported that it is altogether too poor for satisfactory- 

 identification. According to "Topographical Botany," there is 

 no reliable authority for its occui'rence South of Monmouth. 



Arenaria tenuifolia, Linn. The places and authorities 

 quoted for this in my "Tentative List "are: St. Austell, the 

 rev. J. P. Jones, in "A Botanical Tour through various parts 



