



BOTANY 









Hypericineae . 



100 



Scrophularineae 7 1 



Juncaceae 



63 



, Caryophylleae 



57 



Geraniaceae 



78 



Umbelliferae . 7 1 



Gramineae 



60 



Orchideae. . 



50 



Labiatas . . 



77 



Polygonese. . 70 



Boragineffi 



60 



Naiadaceae , 



50 



Chenopodiaceae 



74 



Ranunculaceae 66 



Rosaceae . 



60 



Liliaceas . . 



44 



Leguminosae . 



72 



Cruciferae . . 66 



Cyperaceae 



58 



Compositae . 



41 



The low place taken by Compositae is mainly due to the exceedingly 

 large number of species of Hieracium enumerated in the Catalogue, many 

 of which are very local ; and Devonshire is not rich in number of species 

 for this genus. The general percentage for all the flowering plants is 

 rather greater than 61. 



The general character of the county flora belongs to the Atlantic 

 type of H. C. Watson ; the majority of the species are of course members 

 of the British type of that author, and many of theni come under the 

 head of the English type, but the type having the largest percentage of 

 representation is the Atlantic. The extended distribution of several of 

 the rarer species to the Channel Islands deserves notice, and conversely 

 it appears that the rarer species of the Channel Islands are well repre- 

 sented in Devon ; Marquand in his Flora of Guernsey (1901) gives a list 

 of thirty-four species which have a comital census below ten, that is, 

 plants found in less than ten out of 1 1 2 counties and vice-counties into 

 which England, Wales and Scotland are divided, according to the last 

 edition of the London Catalogue ; in this list are enumerated nineteen 

 Devon species. Through this connection a relationship can be traced to 

 the floras of Brittany and Normandy ; in some instances however our 

 species extend to the west of France, as also to Spain or Portugal, etc., 

 without representation in the Channel Islands. 



We have some plants occurring in no other English county : the 

 genotte of Guernsey {Romulea Columns) occurs on Dawlish Warren and 

 nowhere else in Britain, and is absent from Ireland ; it extends to the 

 west of France, the south of Europe and the north of Africa. The 

 round-headed club-rush {Scirpus Holoscheenus) gvoyf^ plentifully on Braunton 

 Burrows, the only other station for it in the British Isles being north 

 Somerset, where it has been rediscovered apparently in small quantity ; 

 Sir J. D. Hooker gives the Channel Islands for the plant, but I know no 

 other authority for the statement ; the foreign distribution in Europe is 

 from Belgium southwards, also in north Africa and Siberia. The Irish 

 spurge {Euphorbia hibernd) in Britain grows only in the Lynton neigh- 

 bourhood ; besides the south and west of Ireland its foreign distribution 

 is the west part of France and the north of Spain. 



PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 



The following table, prepared from Mr. Edward Mawley's reports 

 in the ^arterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, exhibits the 

 dates of the first flowering of thirteen common plants for Tiverton (in 

 the Exeter botanical district. Miss M. E. Gill being the observer). 

 Westward Ho (in the Barnstaple district, H. A. Evans and Miss Patterson 

 being successively the observers), Barnstaple (in the latter district, Thomas 



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