A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



Plants found in Devonshire in the year 1840'— at or within 3 miles of Torquay ; also near 



Holme Chase and on the borders of the river Dart. 

 Robert C. R. Jordan in the Phytolo^st, January 1844, pp. 827, 828, 'Rare Plants observed m 



the neighbourhood of Teignmouth, Devon.' 

 Robert Batterby, M!D.,in the Phyiolo^st, September 1844, i. 1079, 'Note on Iris foetidissima with 



double flowers.' 

 Samuel Hannaford : Flora fottoniensis : A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing Wild 



in the vicinity of Totnes (1851), and Supplement (1852). 

 Fraser Halle: Letters, Historical and Botanical; relating chief y to places in the vale of Teign, and par- 

 ticularly to Chudleigh, Lustkigh, Canonteign and Bovey-lracey (1851). 

 Thomas Waller Gissing in the Phytologtst, June 1855, 'Botanical Notes from South Devon,' 



pp. 25-8. 

 Robert Stewart: Handbook of the Torquay Flora (i860). 



T. B. Flower in the Phytologtst, September i860, p. 288, ' Additional Devonshire Plants.' 

 Rev. W. Moyle Rogers in the Journal of Botany, 1878, pp. 15-25, 'Notes on some south-east 



Devon Plants' ; and 1 880, pp. 9-13, 'On some south-east Devon Plants' ; the same author 



in the same Journal, 1882, pp. 70-6, 121-4, 133-6, 177-^3, 206-9, 239-43, 262-6, 



' A Contribution towards a Flora of the Teign Basin, S. Devon.' 

 Miss Helen Saunders in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1898, xxx. 201, ' Ashburton.' 

 Thomas Richard Archer Briggs in the Journal of Botany, 1866, p. 288, 'Unrecorded Stations, 



mostly near Plymouth, of some uncommon Plants, etc' ; 1 868, p. 58, ' Ononis rec linata ir\ 



Devonshire'; 1879, p. 314, 'Devon Plants'; 1884, pp. 168-74, 'On some Devonian 



Stations of Plants noted in the last century.' 

 Edward Croydon : The Torquay Guide, etc., by several literary gentlemen (Torquay, 1841), 'Botany,' 



pp. 132-69 ; another edition (1852 ?), pp. 270-80, The Handbook fir Torquay. 

 Edward and George Henry Croydon : The Teig^imouth Guide, cA. 16, 'Wild Flowers,' pp. 137, 



138; no date. 

 Cornelius's Guide : Dawlish, Historical and Topogj-aphical, ed. 2, 'The Botany of Dawlish,' pp. 75- 



82 ; no date. 

 J.A.Walker in the Phytologist, 1845,11. 24, 25, 'On the Influence of the mild Climate of Torquay 



on Flowering Plants.' 

 Robert C. R. Jordan in the Phytologtst, 1845, ii. 338, 339, ' Occurrence of Alyssum calycinum and 



Narcissus biflorus near Dawlish.' 

 Fenton J. A. Hort in the Phytologist, 1848, iii. 321, 322, ' Note on Alsine rubra, var. media, Bab.' ; 



p. 322, Torquay and Dawlish. 

 C. E. Lartor (Miss) : Manual of the Flora of Torquay (1900). 



7. Plymouth 



This district consists of the Southern or Totnes parliamentary division, the municipal 

 boroughs of Plymouth and Devonport, and the parish of East Stonehouse ; it contains about 

 200,874 acres, being about 195,068 acres of land, inland water and saltmarsh, besides about 

 5,806 acres of foreshore and tidal water ; it consists of the three petty sessional divisions of 

 Ermington and Plympton, Stanborough and Coleridge, and South Roborough, except the 

 municipal borough of Dartmouth, but with the addition of those of Plymouth and Devonport ; 

 it comprises all the 26 parishes of the Kingsbridge poor-law union, 18 out of the 27 parishes 

 of the Totnes union, and 13 out of the 20 parishes of the Plympton union, besides the three 

 towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse, altogether 60 civil parishes, of which 51 are 

 rural and 9 are urban ; the drainage is entirely to the south coast ; it includes part of Dart- 

 moor. The principal rivers are the Dart, the Avon, the Erme, the Yealm, the Tory brook, 

 and (on the western border) the Plym. The highest part is 1,692 feet above sea-level, at 

 Petre's Bound Stone in the parish of Buckfastleigh West, where it joins the Torquay and 

 Tavistock botanical districts. It includes Prawle Point, in the parish of Chivelstone, the 

 most southern part of the county. It is bounded on the west by the county of Cornwall, on 

 the north by the Tavistock and Torquay botanical districts, and on the east and south by the 

 English Channel. 



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

 trict : — 



Ashprington Buckfastleigh, East (urban) Cornwood 



Aveton GifFord Buckfastleigh, West Cornworthy 



Berry Pomeroy Buckland Tout Saints Dartington 



Bigbury Charleton Dean Prior 



Elackawton Chivelstone Devonport (urban) 



Brixton Churchstow Diptford 



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