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looked up liis plant, and is satisfied that it is not what 

 he at firsfc thought it to be. Mr. Cociis was, of course, a 

 zoologist rather than a botanist, and I think we are safe in 

 concluding that in the case under notice there was some little 

 confusion on his part. Mr. Hiern accepts it as a Devon species. 



Orobanche elatior, Sutton. This is for the most part a 

 calcicole subject. It appears to come as far west as North 

 Somerset, but I cannot find any authentic record for it for Devon, 

 and I am satisfied it must be excluded the Cornish list. Miss 

 Warren thought she found it at Cubert Forth, but the specimen 

 so labelled by her in the Herb, of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 

 of Cornwall, and which Mr. F. F. Fascoe reported to H. C. 

 Watson, is undoubtedly 0. minor, Sm. Specimens gathered by 

 me at Ponsanooth also turn out to be that species ; and Mrs. 

 L. C. Foster's record for Gunwalloe, as well as Dr. Montgomery's 

 for the Scilly Isles, must be similarly rearranged. 



Salix phylicifolia, Linn. While admitting there is a lot 

 of virgin ground to be broken before a correct account can be 

 written of the willows of the west, we are no longer justified in 

 claiming for Cornwall a plant which is almost as truly northern 

 in its range as *S'. kerhacea, Linn. And, after all, it is rather a poor 

 way of promoting science by passing off as a Cornish plant an 

 unlocalised and undated specimen in the Herb, of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of Cornwall. 



Juniperus nanus, Willd., is really a Scottish plant, and 

 after a careful comparison of the Gue Graze example with 

 authentic specimens of J. nanus, I am satisfied it must be 

 referred to J. communis, Linn., var. intermedia, Nyman. This 

 view was adopted in part by H. C. Watson, and tlie late J. 

 Cunnack was also so convinced that our Lizard plant should go 

 under the commoner species that he suggested it should be called 

 J. communis, Linn., var. prostrata. 



Damasonium stellatum, Fers. This is the second 

 impossible plant which Mr. Bree claimed to have seen when he 

 visited our county. H. C. Watson made a careful examination 

 of Gulval Marsh a year or two after Mr. Bree's visit, and went 

 away doubting if the plant ever grew there. Dr. Montgomery, 

 in the Transactions and Eeport of the Fenzance Natural History 



