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api:>ear.s to have allowed no record to pass without a close scrntiny 

 and a careful consideration of probabilities and possibilities. 

 For the -plant now under notice he received a record for West 

 Cornwall from Mr. E. V. Tellam, but either Mr. Tellam must 

 have conmiunicated it with certain reservations oi- Mr. Watson 

 was not satisfied with the evidence offered on its behalf, for he 

 follows the name of the district with a question mark. Here 

 again, we have recorded for Cornwall a plant which " Topo- 

 graphical Hotany " does not mention for Devon, Dorset or South 

 Somerset. It is further worthy of mention that although 

 Mr. r. P. Pascoe, in the " Botanical Gazette," 1850, mentioned 

 Pencalenick, near Triiro, and Chy-an-hal, near Penzance, for 

 this water milfoil, Mr. Watson passed these places over in silence, 

 and his silence is always as significant as his sarcasm. 



Slum latifolium, Linn. Another of Mr. Pascoe's doubtful 

 communications to the " Botanical Gazette." It was made on 

 the authority of a Mr. Ward, who claimed to have found the 

 plant "in a ditch near the Prioiy, Bodmin." Devon does 

 come within its range, but until someone can produce a Cornish 

 specimen, Mr. Ward's reputed find miist be omitted from future 

 lists of plants occurring in the County. 



Galium Yaillantii, DC. Suspicion attaches itself to each 

 of the three localities admitted into my " Tentative List." Dr. 

 Ealfs and Mr. VV. Curnow had often explored every inch of the 

 Land's End district, and were never able to verify Mr. Wood's 

 record ; and although specimens of most of the plants recorded 

 from the Scilly Isles can be found scattered through the herbaria, 

 of the several botanists who have visited the Islands, nothing- 

 approaching G. VaiUantii can be found. The Cornish 

 Moneywort Club's record also stands without confirmation. 

 Evidence is strong against the plant occurring in any of the 

 western counties. In a genuinely wild state, Essex is the only 

 possessor of it. 



Asperula cynanchica, Linn. Although the quinancy- 

 wort ranges from South Devon to Norfolk, and fi'om Glamorgan 

 to Westmorland, more reliable information than we at present 

 possess must be forthcoming before it can be accepted as a native 

 of Cornwall. Judging from what I have seen of it in neigh- 

 bouring counties, it is more or less a calcicole subject, and Corn- 



