232 NATURAL HISTORY 
N°. XVII. Tender ivy-leaved bell-flower. Campanula Cytnba- 
larice foliis , ' Ger\ “ on many moift and watry banks in this 
county.” . ini 
N°, xvm. The leaft marlh-centaury, Centaurium palujtre lu- 
teum minimum, , found “ on a rotten boggy ground between St. Ives 
and Penzance 1 ”.” 
N°. xix. Butter-wort with a fmall flefh-coloured flower, rm- 
guicula jlore minor e cameo , £t in moift meadows and marlny grounds 
about Kilkhamton and elfewhere n .” 
N°. xx. Great yellow marfh-eyebright, Fuphrafia lutea lati- 
folia palujlris , about boggy places, especially towards the further 
end of this county 0 . 
N\ xxi. Verticillate knot-grafs with thyme-like leaves, Po- 
lygonum ferpyllifolium verticil latum, in watry places between St. 
Columb and Michel, about Penzance, and towards the Land s 
End p. I found it at Caftle-Treryn among tne rocks. 
N°. xxil. The leafl calve’s-fnout or fnapdragon, Antir- 
rhinum minus , or Linar ia q , gathered in a bottom in Sancred, 
r 754* 
sect. vn. N°. xxm. Among the rock and cliff-plants the famphire. 
Rock and Crithmuin , feu Fceniculum marinum , may be reckoned the moft 
cliff p nt u ££ u p j n iflands of Scilly this plant grows luxuriant beyond 
what we have in Cornwall ; fome boil it as a pot-herb ; pickled, it 
is thought to help digeftion : Dr. Leigh, in his Lancafhire, thinks 
it may be ranked in the firft clals of antifcorbuticks : gathered in 
great plenty on the cliffs adjoining to the lea in Piran-Uthno parifh 
and St. Juft. 
N°. xxiv. Common fennel, Fceniculum vulga? e minus , in 
the extreme parts of Cornwall near the fea, betwixt Lannant and St. 
Ives, fays Mr. Ray '. Of this ufeful plant, the feed quickens the 
eye-fight, ftrengthens the ftomach and bowels, and relieves the 
afthma : the leaves increafe the nurfe s milk, are a good antenephri- 
tic, and the root removes obftrucfions u . 
N°. xxv. In fome little iflands, or rather flightly covered 
rocks, (as Mullion gull-rock in Mount’s Bay, Godrivy ifland in St. 
Ives Bay, & cl) one year nothing grows but mallows ( the Malva 
arbor ea marina , as I take it, of Ray w ); the next year nothing but 
beets*; the liicceeding year mallows again, and the fourth year beets, 
1 Ray* 3 J edit, page 277. 
ra Ibid, page 286. 
n Ibid, page 281. 
0 Ibid, page 285. 
P Ibid, page 147. 
1 Ibid, page 383. 
r Ibid, page 217. 
1 Ibid. 
1 Ibid. 
« Ibid. 
w Ibid. 
* Beta fylveftris, mavitima, radice perenni. 
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