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MEMORIALS OF RAY 



Biddiford, all along the hedges on both sides the way, 

 grows Erytlirodanum [Itubia peregrina^ Linn.] in great 

 plenty, and no doubt also in the rocky ground all there- 

 about. Between Biddiford and Kilhampton, in the 

 valleys, and near the rivulets and water courses among 

 the moors, we met with Campanula cymhalaricB foliis 

 [^Campanula hederacea,\Am\.^ and Asphodelus Lancastr en- 

 sis \Narthecium ossifragum, Huds.] The river Ex rises 

 not above five miles distant from the north or Severn Sea, 

 and runs into the south or British Sea, giving denomina- 

 tion to many places, viz. Exford, Exmore, Exton, Ex- 

 bridge, Exeter, and Exmouth. At Kilhampton, on the 

 rocks, is a small sort of alga, broad and variously divided, 

 and, as it were, curled at the top ; besides Corallina alba 

 and rubra. Nothing more frequent hereabout, in boggy 

 and springy places, than Asphodelus Lancastrensis [Nar- 

 thecium ossifragmn^ Huds.] and Lysimacliia galericulata 

 minor [Scutellaria minor, Linn. :] it hath a flesh-coloured 

 flower, and the lip thereof is spotted with small red spots. 

 Here also is a small sort oiPinguicula [PJtmtanica,Jjiicm.y\ 

 which seems to differ specially from the common. It hath 

 lesser leaves, crumpled up about the edges, almost pellucid, 

 having red veins frequently, and manifestly visible. The 

 flower is much smaller than that of the common Finguiculaj 

 and paler, more of the flesh-colour \Conferantur?^ The 

 Cotyledon palustr is ^o^^Y [Hydrocotyle vulgaris, lArni?^ also 

 grows here; the stalks on which the flowers grow are small 

 and low, bearing at the top five or six very small flesh-co- 

 loured flowers, consisting of five sharp-pointed leaves ; 

 {exam?) vascula seminalia, sunt ea compressa, didyma, 

 velut TIdaspeos cujusdam. In Devonshire, as well as 

 Cornwall, they mend or manure their land with sea-sand. 

 In the east part of Devon they make the walls of their 

 houses very thick, and of a red clay. In many of the 

 towns the chimneys of the houses stand on the foreside 

 towards the street, especially of the older houses. 



Thursday, June the 26th, we set out for Launceston, 

 twenty miles. There we saw the castle, which is well 



