VIII. — Rctre Plants in the neighhourJiood of Truro. — Btj Miss Emily 

 Stackhouse, Truro. 



IIST the absence of a " Flora of Cornwall," which would be a boon 

 to the lovers of Botany, perhaps a few stray notes about the 

 rarer plants in this neighbourhood may not be unacceptable to the 

 readers of our Journal. 



At the last meeting of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, Mr. 

 Cragoe mentioned some rare plants growing in the parish of St. 

 Clement. On the outskirts of the same parish, where it adjoins 

 that of St. Erme, lies the small hamlet of Frogmore ; and in that 

 locality occur some of the smaller bog-plants in which Cornwall is 

 notoriously rich. In approaching it from the south, first in beauty 

 as well as in situation is the Uttle Ivy-leaved Bellflower (Campanula 

 hederacea, L. j, which grows by the side of the stream near Wood- 

 lands, and also, unless eaten by the mUler's donkey, on a little 

 grassy knoll by the side of the road. In the latter place also oc- 

 curs the Lesser Skull-cap (Scutellaria minor, h.), a plant with a 

 flower of pale lilac hue, and not remarkable for anything but the 

 curious form of its seed-vessels. In the coppice wood adjoining, 

 in the parish of St. Erme, grow the Marsh Violet ( Viola palustris, 

 Jj.), the Pale Butterwort (Pinguicida Lusitanica, h.), and the 

 Thyme-leaved Flax-seed (Radiola millegrana, Sm. j. The Pale But- 

 terwort resembles two of its congeners in its greasy feeling leaves, 

 never wet in the most marshy places ; but it is unlike them in its 

 flower, which is of a very pale lilac colour, with a sHght tinge of 

 yellow, and springs from the middle of the bunch of leaves on 

 a straight stalk of about three inches in height. The Eadiola 

 is not properly an inhabitant of a marsh, since it prefers drier 

 places ; and it is not easy to recognize, being, in its mature age, 

 not more than an inch or two high, — a miniature specimen of 

 vegetation, which in a Wardian case would probably flourish 

 luxuriantly in the half of a walnut shell. This Wood also con- 

 tains many Mosses : Aidacomnium palustre, Schwyn. ; Hypnum 

 splendens, Dill., in fine fruit; Hypnum hrevirostre, Ehrh., in abun- 

 dance ; Hypnum Schreberi, Dill., rather sparingly ; Hypnum pu/rum, 



