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and fo on, the mallows and beets annually taking their turn to pof- 
fefs the ifland. This is a very lingular vicidltude, of which I have 
received frequent adertions from eye-witncffes ; and it may be attri- 
buted, as I imagine, to the following caufe, viz. That when one 
of thefe plants (the mallow, for in dance) fhoots vigoroufly*, it mailers 
and keeps under the beet, till its leaves and dalks decay ; the beet 
then, which lay the preceding year obfcured and weakened under 
the fhade of the mallow, fhoots away more early in the fucceeding 
fpring, and having the dart of the mallow, overtops and maders it, 
till the beet decays, and then the mallow prevails in its turn. To 
make thefe plants fhoot in full drength, and maintain their yearly 
lovereignty, the Ipray of the lea, the faces of the birds, (with 
which thefe rocks are perpetually difcoloured) and their own pu- 
trefcent leaves and dalks may contribute ; but as I have never 
vidted thefe rocks in perlon, I am not fudiciently informed of the 
feveral circumdances of thele fads, and therefore ffiall not detain 
the reader, but refer them to further enquiry. 
N°. xxvi. Mardi-afparagus or fperage, Afparagus palufiris , Ger \ 
found growing on the cliffs at the Lizherd point. 
N°. xxvii. Smooth-leaved rupture-wort, Herniaria glabra , found 
at the Lizherd Point plentifully by Mr. Ray y . 
N°. xxvii 1. Leder autumnal dar-hyacinth, Hyacinthus autum- 
nalis minor , Ger. Park, found in plenty on the Lizher4 Point z ; 
N°. xxix. Role-wort, T’elephium-roJeum- i Mor a . gathered alio 
among the rocks at the Land’s End, 1754. 
N°. xxx. Our fands on the fca-diore afford fome ufeful plants, sect. vrn. 
of which the eryngo or fea-holly may be reckoned £ird ; it is the Sand and 
Eryngium marinum of Herbalids b : its root, for excellent fyrup, beachplams ” 
and candying, is univerfally acknowledged to be a great redorative. 
It grows in greated plenty on the loole dry fands, above full fea- 
mark, between Penzance and Marazion, and on the lands near 
Gwythien bridge, where the fea never reaches : it is allb found in 
fo many other parts of this county, that in this and famphire it is 
thought Cornwall exceeds any county in England c . Having trans- 
planted eryngo from the beach into a light, fandy, funny part of my 
garden, I found it to thrive very well. 
N°. xxxi. Along the fandy hills of the parifhes bordering on 
the North-fea, as Philac, Gwythien, and Piran-fand, there grows 
a rufh in the dryed and mod naked fand-heaps, which I take to be 
Juncus acutus capitulis Sorghi \ Thefe rufhes have a two-fold ufe ; 
* This mallow has a woody ftem, as great as 
a man’s arm, flowers and roots large, fays Parkin- 
fon, ad malvam. 
* Ray, 3 d edit, page 267. 
1 Ibid, page 160. 
* Ibid, page 373. 
1 Ibid, page 269. 
b Ibid, page 222. 
c Carew, page 19. 
d Ray, 3 d edit, page 471. 
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