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Original Articles. 
SUPPLEMENTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA 
OF NORTH CORNWALL. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
I nave been much interested in studying the ig! plants gathered 
y Dr. Hind in North Cornwall, printed at page 36 of the present 
uta of the Journal. So far as botanical records oe he has entered 
upon almost untrodden ground, for from Turner and Dillwyn down 
to the recent Devon and Cornwall Flora of Keys and Holmes, there 
are roe yf few stations reported from the tract to which his 
yet 
tive, scarcely at all by positive, characteristics. In a sentence, this 
ract may be described by saying cys ti is that part of the county 
of Gorawall to which Cowper’s definiti 
‘* Where England, stretched Lilet ligh the tian’ sun, 
Narrow and long, o’erlooks the w 
does not apply. This is a right-angled obec added to the north of ~~ 
‘narrow and long” portion of the county at its eastern extremity, wi 
a line twenty miles long from Tintagel east to Launceston for its al, 
the co ndary running out due north from Launceston along 
the Tamar for sevinty. miles towards Hartland Point and Clovelly for 
its perpendicular, and a magnificent sweep of craggy coast facing the 
north-west for the hypothenuse. The cliffs rise as we pass along from 
north-east to south-west, but the country falls rather than rises inland 
ithin the triangle do we reach a 
co ated very thinly, cultivated impe 
Sweeps we low undulated swells, with little actual heather-land still 
remaining, and quite destitute of the thick hedgerows, an ae 
lanes, aie wooded brooks with deep sylvan b whic 
monly associate with the idea of Devonshire scenery, is completely 
bounded on the south by the great granite mass of D; and the 
ridge of high bare hill that forms the backbone of Toes onihs ad thus 
shut in on the south and exposed to the sea on the north, ‘with very 
little variety in station within its area, looks in ysical ¢ character 
and botany like a slice out of the poorer rer part of Cumberland or Lan- 
cashire translated to the South of England, and offers a great con 
trast to the distri trict between Exeter, ay eden Plymouth by the 
total absence of many species of a Southe: hich the south of 
the county yields, and the rarity of many others of a Southern type 
of character which we are accustomed to see commonly even about 
London and in the Midland — So that I believe Dr. Hind’s 
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N.S. von. 2. [aprit 1, 1873 
