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very nearly with Professor Boreau's description of that 

 plant, which is here appended for the sake of comparison : 

 " Stem clothed with many short stiff hairs ; leaves with 

 soft long hairs, very distinctly crenate ; spike short, inter- 

 rupted ; calyx softly hairy at the summit ; lower lip of the 

 corolla rounded crenate " (Flore &c., loc. cit.) . Mr. Ben- 

 tham, in his ^Lahiatarum genera et species,' p. 532, gives, 

 amongst the synonyms of his Stachys Betonica, " Betonica 

 hirta, Leyss., Eeichb. Icon., Bot. Eur. 8. 4. t. 711," which 

 may be identical with B. hirta, Reich. ; but the only re- 

 ference to it which I have met with is in Dr. Garke's ' Flora 

 von Nord-und-Mittel Deutschland,' where it is shortly de- 

 scribed as " Var. a, hirta, Leyss. — Stem with short hairs, 

 calyx rough-haired .'' — (Ed. vi. p. 318.) 



The Cornish form is very plentiful on the cliffs of "Killas'^ 

 rock, lying between Caerthilian and the Lizard Lights, 

 growing with Genista tinctoria, L., var. humifusa, Dicks., 

 which it much resembles in habit. The same form is 

 also met with in several other parts of South- Western 

 Cornwall, as at Cuddan Point and the Mount's Bay dis- 

 trict generally. 



The above communication was preceded by a few remarks 

 on the following plants of South-Western Cornwall, speci- 

 mens of which were exhibited at the Meeting :-^— 



Eaphanus maritimus, Sm Cliffs under the Lizard Lights; 



Brassica alba, i „ ,, „ 



Arenaria verna, L., var. /3. Gerardi, 



Willd Eocks at Eill Head, 



Spergularia rupestris, Lebel non 



Camb Nanjissal Bay, Land's End; plen- 

 tiful. 



Tamarix Angliea, Webb Mount's Bay. 



Lavatera arborea, L Cliffs, Newlyn. 



Trifolium subterraneiim, L ; . Penzance. 



„ scabrum, L. ,..;... ; „ 



Anthyllis vulnerariai L. (a very ro- 

 bust form) Perth gwarra. Land's End. 



