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record in " Topographical Botany." Seeing- liow tlxoronglily the 

 greater part of vice-county 2 has heen worked by a nnniber of 

 critical botanists with never a trace of tlie plant being found, it 

 seems strange that no one has challenged the record. This, I 

 suppose, is partly due to the high regard all botanists have for 

 " Topographical Botany," and partly to the fact that the presence 

 of the plant in the sister county has been placed beyond eavil by no 

 less an authority than the late Mr. Archer Briggs. After a deal of 

 search, I am now able to show that the first hint British botanists 

 had of R. saxatilis growing in Cornwall was from the rev. AV. T. 

 Bree in Loudon's "Magazine of Natural History," vol. 4, 1831. 

 The place where it is there stated to have been found is "near 

 Bodmin." Now, if Mr. Bree had devoted several years to the 

 flora of Cornwall, instead of recording what he saw during a few 

 days' absence from his Warwickshire lectory, and if so careful 

 and industrious a botanist as my friend, Mr. Tellam, had not for 

 ujiwards of half-a-century explored every inch of the country 

 around Bodmin, to say nothing of the many visits to that locality 

 of Mr. Briggs, when he was studying the brambles of the two 

 western counties, there would be no reason for doubting the 

 occurrence of R. saxatilis in Cornwall. But I am bound to 

 confess the evidence against the j)lant is too overwhelming for it 

 to ajJi^ear any longer in our list. 



(Enanthe silaifolia, Bieb. Plants collected by Mr. A. 0. 

 Hume and myself near Morval Lodge, in the East Looe valley, 

 seemed at the time to answer to this species and were so recorded 

 by me for vice-county 2 in vol. xiv, 373, of the Journal of 

 this Institution. Quite recently I have submitted my specimens 

 to the rev. E. F. Linton, who pronounces them ffi". Lachenalii^ 

 Gmel. Mr. AV . P. Heirn tells me the plant must be also deleted 

 the Devon list. 



Rhinanthus major, Ehrh. My " Tentative List " quotes 

 three records for this plant. " Trelew, My lor," Miss Warren, 

 Herb. Eoyal Horticultural Society of Cornwall. "Near 



Falmouth, rare," W. P. Cocks, vide Dr. H. Charlton Bastian's 

 paper in the Annual Eeport of the Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society, 1856. " St. Ives," W. N. Winn. Such as it is, I have 

 examined Miss Warren's specimen, and find it nothing but a 

 poor example of R. Crista-galli, Linn. Mr. Winn has again 



