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The Falmouth district, also, notwithstanding the excellent 

 work done there half-a-century ago by Dr. H. Charlton Bastian. 

 and more recently by Mr. Ernest Bullmore, required further 

 attention. This I have been able to give, and in the parishes of 

 Mabe and Budock more particularly many surprises have been 

 forthcoming. 



1. SPECIES NEW TO CORNWALL. 



Under this head last year I introduced a fumitory which 

 was quite new to Britain. To-day I am able to bring before you 

 specimens of an eyebright which does not agree with any one of 

 the several described British forms. It will be also remembered 

 that at the last annual meeting I mentioned the names of seven 

 brambles which had recently been added to our flora. Comment- 

 ing on those discoveries, I said there was still much to be done 

 before a correct history of the brambles of Cornwall could be 

 written, and I expressed the hope that some of our resident 

 botanists would this year embark on a serious study of the forms 

 occurring in their respective neighbourhoods. I am sorry to say 

 Dr. Yigurs is the only one who has responded to that appeal. 

 When it is known that our efforts this season have resulted in 

 the discovery of four species and two varieties new to Cornwall, 

 perhaps others may be induced to extend their sympathy to this 

 interesting group of plants. Mid-Cornwall, from Bodmin to 

 Truro, offers a fine field to the diligent student. It is more or , 

 less untrodden ground, and will, I feel certain, yield a rich 

 harvest. 



Drosera anglica, Huds. In the year 1820 there appeared 

 an unpretentious but valuable, albeit in places unreliable, little 

 book, entitled " A Botanical Tour through various parts of the 

 counties of Devon and Cornwall." The author was the rev. John 

 Pike Jones, a Devonshire worthy, w^ho in the preceding j^ear had 

 collaborated with a Mr. J. F. Kingston on a much more elaborate 

 work, entitled "Flora Devoniensis." In not a few instances 

 have modern botanists been able to show that the rev. gentle- 

 man's Cornish records must be accepted with a deal of caution, 

 and among the plants recorded by him for Cornwall on which 

 suspicion early fell and has continued to the present was the 

 Great Sundew. In the little book referred to this plant is 



