SOME PLANTS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PLYMOUTH. 327 
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 
OF PLYMOUTH, WITH STATIONS. 
By T. R. Anrcuer Brices, F.L.S. 
Ranunculus circinatus, Sibth.—In plenty in a tributary of the 
Erme River immediately above Gutsford Bridge, between Ermin 
and Kingston, 1874. Apparently very rare inthe extreme south-west 
of England, like several other aquatic species common in other parts. 
homesteads 
Devon and Cornwall, and I much suspect that it stands for B. Lvapus, 
the Rape, in many local lists, especially as the early leaves very soon 
decay, leaving only the decidedly glaucous later ones. Unlike a 
biennial plant, which we have in a few spots, d 
ably identical with the Thames-side Brassica, it produces only very 
few of the grass-green lower leaves, entirely wanting the rosette so 
_ onspicuous in the younger state of this other. é 
‘erastium semidecandrum, L. On a sand-bank at Mothecombe, 
common on the coast, and elsewhere near salt-water, in the neighbour- 
hood of Plymouth, but ©. semidecandrum is very rare. : 
yperieu: um, Leers. This is very rare, but still grows in 
_ Several spots on both sides of the Tamar, 4 little below the Weir 
’ Head, and so occurs here in both Devon and Cornwall. It was found 
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00 a bank by the turnpike-road, between Yealm Bridge and Ermington 
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Specimens and comparison with a Kew specimen of elatum has shown ° 
' this Devon Meaniee to be hircinum. It ma be worth while to men- 
tion here that Devon alone of all the counties of the United Rippin 
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ee atl native British species of this genus. em 
SS Sula for H. hirsutum is Yealmpton, seven miles from this town in 
leven miles to the east of Plymouth; the most westerly in the Pe va 
