886 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTH-EAST CORNWALL. 
Hab. Mountains of Central and Southern Brazil. Var. major 
(Burchell — 8724! Glaziow 7355!) connects the type with 
S. See 
ge ae Spring Mon. ii. 209; stoloniferum 
cote o Peppigianum Hook & Grev., ex parte. — Stems trailing, 
reaching a length of a foot or more, often ences and adie like 
at the end, jointed at the nodes, angled on the back and face, 
red pinnate, with short copiously compound branches. 
Leaves of the lower plane close on the branchlets, rather ascending, 
eee -lanceolate, acute, 1-12th to 1-8th in. long, rather rigid in 
texture, cer equal-sided, laterally inserted, not imbricated over 
the back of the stem, shortly ciliated and more rounded on the 
upper side at the base, minutely auricled on the lower. Spikes 
1-1 in. long, square, } lin. diam.; bracts ovate, acute, strongly 
keeled. 
Hab. West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, San Domingo, Dominica, é&e. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF NORTH-EAST CORNWALL. 
y T. R. Ancuer Briaas, F.L.S. 
Last ae I contributed some notes on the botany of the portion 
of Cornwall lying between the town of Bodmin and its north coast 
by Portquin and Port Isaac Bays, forming part of the basin of the 
Camel or Allan River (Journ. Bot. 1882, pp. 231-238). In the sane 
of this year I was enabled to carry on a further investigation of the 
same tract whilst on a visit at Lavethan, in the parish of Blislan 
from the 18th to the 28rd of that month. The following notes are 
the result of observations made during those six days : 
nunculus hirsutus Curt.—St. Minver, and between this village 
and St. Kew. Stations are named in in my former paper, and the 
plant is one of the characteristic species of the i though yet 
more frequent in some parts of Cornwall further west. 
helidonium majus L.—St. Tudy ; together with Smyrnium and 
Humulus Lupulus ; the three doubtless originally ae 
Fumaria confusa Jord. omens Bodmin ; St. Min 
Brassica Rapa L., ¢. Briggsit ho nd. Cat., ed. 7.—By roadsides 
and in waste ee and sometimes in tillage fields a most abundant 
weed. In waste ground at Tregenna Hamlet, and among Smet 
between it and Blisland Village. eee rendering two plots of 
corn yellow, to the exclusion, in at least one, of Sinapis arvensis 
also with corn ana among potatoes in ec neroncin between Blisland 
Village and Trewardale. In a corn-field between St. Teath Mill 
and St. Tudy, uniting with Semon arvensis to make the feld look 
more ition ‘than green. As a roadside weed near St. Teath 
illage, and near Poleys Bridge, ebwodts St. Tudy and Blisland 
Villages, June, 1883. Doubtless it was this ciate that the Rev. 
