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The Ros-folis grows in {hallow marlhy grounds : I have gathered 
it in Torvorian commons in Senan ; it is frequently found on the 
Barton of Ludgvan-Lez : fome moors alfo, belonging to the lands 
of the Church-town of Ludgvan, are fubjed to it; but where-ever 
it grows, the owner takes all poflible care that the Iheep, who are 
fond of it, may not come near it. 
N . xiv. In the wet, Ipongy parts of our heathy grounds 
grows the black whortleberry, Vitis idcea angulofa of J. B. and Mr. 
Ray % the angular-ftalked Vaccinium of others c In Cornwall we 
call the fruit, Whorts ; they are the defert of the common people, 
but the juice much inferior to that of the common black-berry. 
N°. XV. Other rare plants of this fituation are the fmall, creeping, 
round-leaved, baftard-chickwced, of which I lhall give a more parti- 
cular account. This plant is at prelent known by botanills to be found 
in Cornwall only, and Devon, chiefly in the former. Ray s calls it 
Alfi?ie fpuria , pufdla , repens , foliis faxifragce aurece ; but it may be 
juftly fuppofed, that he was doubtful where to clafs it ; for he has 
not included it in his hiftory of plants, nor in his fuppJement to it 
which Plukenet in his Almageft, page 23, wonders at; and there- 
fore adds at length a particular defcription of it from Mr. Ray’s 
Catalogue, a prior work to both thofe before-mentioned : he alio 
gives an icon of it in Tab. vii. Fig. vi. Petiver (Herb. t. 6 f. n.) 
calls it, Ghryfofpleniujn Cornubienfe ; the Cornifli penny-wort. 
Dodor Linnaeus doubted a long while of the exiftence of this 
plant, fufpeding that the Englifli had multiplied the ipecies by 
miftake ; Dr. Sibthorp, now Profeflor of Botany in the Univerflty 
of Oxford, convinced him of its reality by fending him a lpecimen 
of the plant in the year 1750. Linnaeus, out of refped to the 
donor, names it in his Gen. Plant arum , N°. 693, Sibthorpia ; in 
his Species Plantarum defcribes it thus, Sibthorpia , foliis, reni- 
formi-fubpeltatis , crenatis h ; and in his letter to Dr. Sibthorp from 
Upfal, dated July 15, 1750, thus exprefles himfelf : “ Pro Alfne 
Spuria tibi imme?ifas grates habeo , . . . quia eandem pro planta fSla ex 
Hydrocotyle habuijfem , niji ipfe vidiffem et palpitajfe?n pulchrum fpe - 
cimen quod in tui memoriam fervabod Of this doubtful plant I give 
an icon, Plate xxix. Fig. xi. from a fair fpecimen, (with feveral 
kind informations) molt obligingly communicated by Dr. Sibthorp *. 
N°. xvi. Round-leaved, mar£h St. Peter s-wort, Afcyrum fupi- 
num paluflre villofum k , found about fpring-waters, moftly near the 
Land’s End. 
* Second edit, page 457. Chryfofplenium ; of that which grows in Africa, 
f Hill of Plants, page 403. and is fomewhat different, Dr. Shaw has given an 
g Third edit. Synopf. page 352. icon at the end of his travels among the African 
h Gen. nov. 1099, P a g e ax. plants, page 39, N°. 139. 
1 'This is called the European Sibthorpia, or k Ray, ibid, page 344. 
N°. XVII. 
