BOTANY 



The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers kindly sent to me for inspection a catalogue marked by him 

 in June 1885, for plants seen in the parishes of Bishopsnympton, Knowstone, Molland, 

 Roseash and West Anstey. 



4. Exeter 



This district consists of the north-eastern or Tiverton parliamentary division and the 

 parliamentary borough of Exeter; it contains about 215,652 acres, being about 214,439 acres 

 of land, inland water and saltmarsh, besides about 1,213 acres of foreshore and tidal water ; 

 it is bounded on the west by the South Molton botanical district, on the north by the county 

 of Somerset, on the east by the Honiton botanical district, and on the south by the Torquay 

 botanical district ; it consists of the three petty sessional divisions of Tiverton, Cullompton 

 and Wonford and of the municipal borough of Tiverton ; it is entirely inland, but parts of 

 the parishes of Kenton, Powderham, Exminster, Topsham and Alphington are washed with 

 tidal water. It comprises 65 civil parishes, all of which are drained to the south coast, 

 except a fractional part of Cruwys Morchard that is drained by the small stream Dalch, a 

 tributary of the river Taw, and except bits of the three parishes of Clayhanger, Hockworthy 

 and Holcombe Rogus that are drained by the river Tone. It includes all the 26 parishes of 

 the Tiverton poor-law union, the 5 Devonshire parishes in the Wellington (Somerset) 

 union, 29 out of the 50 parishes of the St. Thomas union, 3 parishes (Broadhembury, 

 Payhembury, and Plymtree) in the Honiton union, and the 2 parishes in the city of Exeter ; 

 60 of the parishes are rural and 5 are urban. 



The principal rivers are the Exe with its tributaries the Culm and the Clyst, the Tone 

 for a short distance at the north-eastern boundary, and the Teign for a short extent on the 

 south-west side. 



The highest part is in the parish of Broadhembury, 930 feet above sea-level, and the 

 lowest part is below high-water level of ordinary tides. 



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

 district : — 



Alphington 



Ashcombe 



Ashton 



Bampton (urban) 



Bickleigh near Tiverton 



Bradninch 



Brampford Speke 



Broadclist 



Broadhembury 



Burlescombe 



Butterleigh 



Cadbury 



Cadeleigh 



Christow 



Clayhanger 



Clayhidon 



Clysthydon 



Clyst St. Laurence 



Cruwys Morchard 



Cullompton 



Culmstock 



Doddiscombsleigh 



Dunchideock 



Exeter (urban) 



Exminster 



Halberton 



Heavitree (urban) 



Hemyock 



Hockworthy 



Holcombe Burnell 



Holcombe Rogus 



Huntsham 



Huxham 



Ide 



Kenn 



Kentisbeare 



Kenton 



Loxbeare (with Calverleigh) 



Mamhead 



Morebath 



Netherexe 



Oakford 



Payhembury 



Pinhoe 



Plymtree 



Poltimore 



Powderham 



Rewe (with Upexe) 



St. Leonard 



St. Thomas (urban) 



Sampford Peverell 



Shillingford 



Silverton 



Stoke Canon 



Stoodleigh 



Templeton 



Thorverton 



Tiverton (urban) 



Topsham 



UiFculme 



Uplowman 



Upton Pyne 



Washfield 



Whitestone 



WiUand 



The Carboniferous system occurs chiefly in the northern and western parts of the 

 district, that is to say, more or less in 20 out of the 26 parishes of the Tiverton union^ 2 in 

 the Wellington union, 21 out of the 50 parishes of St. Thomas union, also in parts of the 

 city of Exeter. 



Patches of Radiolarian (Codden Hill) beds occur about Bampton and Holcombe Rogus in 

 the northern part of the district, and about Ashton in the southern part. 



The New Red Sandstone formation occupies a considerable portion of the eastern and 

 southern parts of the district. 



Greensand occurs on the eastern side of the district, in the parishes of Culmstock, 

 Hemyock, and Clayhidon, along the Blackdown Hills by the border of the county, also in 



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