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features in the botany of the district, yel its distribution is such as 
to entitle the plant to the character of a local cies, even when . 
h 
most pa ws in 
low, warm situations, considerably less elevated, especially where the soil 
is of a slaty or shaly nature, apparently showing less partiality for arena- 
ceous ones. On the limestone of our Devonian series it is comparatively 
rare, but occurs at Cattedown and elsewhere on this rock. It seems to 
be gradually extending its area. I have found it so far west as Liskeard, 
beyond which town I have no record of its occurrence. In a northerly 
direction from Plymouth I have traced it to Tavistock. collected a 
specimen near Lustleigh in East Devon some years ago, but have not 
had much opportunity for ascertaining its range generally in this direction, 
beyond 12 or 14 miles from Plymouth. Its flowers differ obviously in 
colour from those of Æ. montanum, being of a rosy or pinkish, not purplish 
ue ; sometimes they open of a pure white, but assume a rosy tint before 
ng. 
Lamium incisum, Willd.—In March last this still grew near Prospect 
(vide Journ. Bot. vol. VI. p. 206). On the 19th of that month I discovered 
about half-a-dozen plants growing on, or by, a hedgebank between the 
lane leading to Antony, and the first of the fields through which is the 
pathway from Trevol to St. John’s Village. This is the only spot in East 
h it 
epeta Cataria, L.—About a dozen plants in the vicinity of an old 
mill and farm buildings near Millbrook, Cornwall (1872). Doubtless it 
was the occurrence of D , 
and-thirty years ago, to insert in his *West Devon and Cornwall Flore 
the station * near Millbrook, Mr. R. Oliver,” under his description or iais 
species, but as no botanist seems to have noticed it there since, until I 
s 
the plant is so exceedingly rare in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 
ecies. 
ostera nana, Roth. On the mud of a creek from St. John's ** Lake" 
lying between Torpoint and St. John's Village, Cornwall. The so-called 
* Lake" is a salt-water inlet from Hamoaze, the name borne by the Tamar — 
Estuary. This species is new to Cornwall, and is as yet unrecorded 
for Devon. 
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SERTULUM NAIGUATENSE; NOTES ON A SMALL COL- 
LECTION OF ALPINE PLANTS FROM THE SUMMIT OF 
NAIGUATA, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CARACAS. 
By A. Ernst, Ph.D., ETC. 
i i i i he first 
generally believed to be next to inaccessible; but this was for t 
time successfully achieved on the 23rd of April, 1872, by Mr. James M. 
