860 LOBELIA URENS L. IN CORNWALL. 
the peering country. To my great delight I found the Lobelia 
in two places, about a couple of miles apart, but both situated 
between Lostwithiel and St. Veep. One of these stations is an 
ee: though steals rough pasture of about five acres, with 
iarten: and pa el es of furze and some heath. ere were dozens 
of specimens still in flower, and some of the ee. protected b 
the furze, were considerably over a foot high, though ue cas 
number were shorter, the least attaining only a few inc The 
field probably contains sabe hundreds of roots, for, Ciiouah 
cattle had cropped off s of the flower-spikes, they were to be 
seen rising up from a ee sacseideaa he extent of surface. I notice 
that the flowers ice me of a much prignter blue when dried; when 
living they have a somewhat purplish hu 
er station is a small enclosure of about an acre, 
consisting partly of undrained bog, with Menyanthes, Juncus acuti-. 
rus, Molinia, &c. Here it occurs for ten or fifteen yards by 
a small bushy ridge near the bog, and also on the damp lower 
portion of a hedge-bank; but altogether appears only sparingly. 
lt is associated with Aguilegia, Hypericum undulatum, Viola lactea, 
Hydrocotyle, Serratula, sf alo viscosa, Salix repens, a few bushes of 
Myrica, with brambles, furz 
The tract belongs to Wat atson’s vice-county 2 (HK. Cornwall), 
being within the basin of the Fowey, both the stations lying on the 
left of the river. oe. rocks are folds of the Devonian or Old Red 
found -to produce Lobelia urens may be said to lie between the 
ot little explored by botanists. These Cornish stations must be, 
s the crow flies, about sixty miles from its Devon one near 
Aesininsier It will be well to ‘supe a few particulars respecting 
this, as two or three Devon stations have erroneously been named 
for the plant. A very precise and interesting account of it, as an 
Axminster species, is to Be found in a little book entitled ‘ The 
Ferns of the Axe and its Tributaries, with an Account of the 
flower Lobelia urens,’ by the Rev. Z. I. Rawanda: published in 1862. 
Presuming the work is known to but few botanists, I extract the 
following particulars concerning the Lobelia at Axminster from its 
pages :——‘* As Hudson first described: it in 1778 and ee ge as his 
authority Mr. Newberry, it is probable that Mr. Newberry dis- 
covered it between 1762”’ (date of ed. 1 of ‘ Flora Fone \ “and 
1778. At this time Mr. Newberry lived at Heathstock, in the 
parish of Stockland, and as he was a noted herbalist, and ‘had the 
reputation of rasa every plant of the neighbourhood, was likely 
to notice the flower when j journeying to Axminster.” After speak- 
ing of the entice as recorded respectively by Hudson, Polwhele, 
Lord Webb Sesinote (in Curtis’s ‘ Fl. Londinensis’), and Withering 
eds. 2 and 3), Mr. Edwards adds :—‘‘ Smith (Fl. Brit.) Dn 
Kcilmingion Hill (on the aathant of Curtis’s Fl. Londin.), t 
