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is just grounds for doubt, and suggests it be placed among 

 exclusions. None of the western counties seen to possess this 

 plant. 



MedicagO minima. Desr. When I was preparing my 

 " Tentative List," the late Canon S. Rogers included this species in 

 a paper which he sent me containing the results of his field work 

 around Carbis Bay. Recently I have gone through my late 

 friend's herbarium, but have found nothing which I could accept 

 as the plant so recorded. Ifedicago i/iinima is essentially a native 

 of the eastern counties, and with our present knowledge the 

 Cornish record, like the old ones for South Devon and North 

 Somerset, cannot be seriously entertained. 



Yicia sylvatica, Lmn. Although I have not the slightest 

 hesitancy about rejecting this, it must be admitted that botanists 

 unacquainted with the Cornish flora would naturally expect to 

 meet the plant west of the Tamar. From Devon right away 

 through the southern, midland, and northern counties, even to 

 Caithness, it has a home. Still, I have yet to discover that 

 anyone can produce a bona fide Cornish specimen, or name a 

 botanist of repute who has seen the plant (jrowing in the county. 

 It was first published as a Cornish species by F. P. Pascoe, in 

 the "Botanical Gazette," 185u. Mr. Pascoe had not seen 

 specimens, and he admitted the plant, like several others, was 

 placed in his list at the request of a Mr. Ward, who thought he 

 had seen it growing somewhere near Crowan. The next, and 

 only other, mention of V. sylvatica for Cornwall was by a Mr, 

 C. B. Allen, who claimed to have found it at Trevayler, near 

 Penzance. His so-called discovery, like several more of like 

 status, was announced in the Annual Report of the Royal 

 Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1871, but it was never 

 countenanced by the late Dr. Ralfs, who devoted the best part 

 of a long life to the flora of the neighbourhood of Penzance. 



Rubus saxatilis, Linn. In the second edition of "Topo- 

 graphical Botany" (1883) this species is placed after vice-county 

 2, but without personal authority. As I understand by a letter 

 received from him, the rev. W. Moyle Rogers knows no 

 Cornish locality for the plant, and in his " Handbook of British 

 Rubi " East Cornwall is cited for it solely on the strength of the 



