BOTANY 



George Maw, in the Phpoh^st, 1853, pp. 785-95, 'Notes on the rare plantj occurring in the 



neighbourhood of the estuary of the Taw and Torridge.' 

 T. F. Ravenshaw, in the Phytolo^st, December, 1862, pp. 355-9, 'Plants of Braunton Burrows, 



North Devon.' 

 The same Author : ' Botany of North Devon,' 1877 (extracted from Stewart's North Devon Hand- 

 book, ed. iv.). 

 Martin M. Bull, in the Journal of Botany, 1875, p. 296, 'Hypericum boeticum, Boiss., in North 



Devon.' 

 Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, in the Journal of Botany, 1877, pp. 361-3, 'Notes on a few North Devon 



plants. ' 

 The same Author in the same Journal, 1879, pp. 330-3, and 1882, pp. 9-16, 'On some North 



Devon plants.' 

 Herbert Arthur Evans : j1 hand-list of the plants occurring within seven miles of the United Services 



College, Westward Ho, and supplements (188 1-6). This list affects twenty-two parishes of 



this district and six of the Torrington district. 

 William Philip Hiern, in Twiss & Son's Illustrated Guide to llfracombe and North Devon (1888), 



chap. 12, pp. 86-90, ' Notes on the flora of Braunton parish. North Devon.' 

 C. E. Larter (Miss) : Notes on the botany of North Devon (1897). 



2. Torrington 



This district consists of the Great Torrington petty sessional division (the smaller and 

 western portion of the Northern or South Molton parliamentary division) and the Holsworthy 

 and Hatherleigh petty sessional division (the northern part of the Western or Tavistock parlia- 

 mentary division) ; it contains about 217,429 acres, being about 217,397 acres of land and 

 inland wrater besides about 32 acres of foreshore and tidal water ; it is wholly inland, but a 

 small portion is washed with tidal water up the Torridge ; it is bounded on the west by the 

 county of Cornwall, on the north by the Barnstaple botanical district, on the east by the South 

 Molton and Torquay botanical districts, and on the south by the Tavistock botanical district. 

 It comprises 59 civil parishes, 42 of which are drained wholly to the north coast, 12 wholly 

 to the south coast, and 5 partly to both coasts. It includes all the 21 parishes of the Hols- 

 worthy poor-law union, one parish (Northcott Hamlet) in the Launceston union, 16 out of 

 the 28 parishes of the Okehampton union, and 21 out of the 23 parishes of the Torrington 

 union ; 56 of the parishes are rural and 3 are urban. The parish of Okehampton Hamlets 

 includes a small piece of Dartmoor and contains High Willhays and Yes Tor, 2039*4 and 

 2029*6 feet of altitude respectively, the highest points of southern England. The lowest part 

 is at the north-west corner of the parish of Weare GifiEard by the river Torridge, which is 

 below high-water level of ordinary tides. 



The principal rivers are the Torridge with its tributaries the West and East Okement 

 and the Waldon, the Tamar (which forms the western border for some distance), and the 

 Taw for short distances on the eastern border. 



The following is a complete list in alphabetical order of the civil parishes in the 

 district : — 



Abbotsbickington 



Alverdiscott 



Ashbury 



Ashwater 



Beaford 



Beaworthy 



Belstone 



Blacktorrington 



Bradford 



Bradworthy 



Bridgerule, East 



Bridgerule, West 



Broadwoodkelly 



Buckland Filleigh 



Clawton 



Cookbury 



Dolton 



Dowland 



Exbourne 



Frithelstock 



Great Torrington (urban) 



HalwiU 



Hatherleigh 



Highampton 



High Bickington 



Hollacombe 



Holsworthy (urban) 



Holsworthy Hamlets 



Huish 



Huntshaw 



Iddesleigh 



Inwardleigh 



Jacobstowe 



Langtree 



Little Torrington 



Luffincott 



Meeth 



Merton 



Milton Damarell 



Monkokehampton 



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Northcott Hamlet 



Northlew 



Okehampton (urban) 



Okehampton Hamlets 



Pancrasweek 



Peters Marland 



Petrockstow 



Pyworthy 



Roborough 



St. Giles in the Wood 



Sampford Courtenay 



Shebbear 



Sheepwash 



Sutcombe 



Tetcott 



Thornbury 



Weare GiiFard 



West Putford 



Yarnscombe 



