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a naturalist's notes IN NORTH DEVON. Aug., 1890. 
from the little Glasswort ( Salicornia herbacea), which is known 
and pickled as Samphire on the Norfolk coast, where it grows 
in profusion on the mud flats. Here, too, was the Spatliulate 
Sea Lavender ( Statice spathnlata). At Clovelly the common 
London Pride ( Saxifraga umbrosa) grows freely, and wild to all 
appearance ; and the handsome Eed Spur Valerian is common 
on old garden walls. 
One dav was devoted to visiting Stanton Sands and 
Braunton Burrows. Leaving Morthoe Station a footpath 
across the fields leads one down to Woolacombe Bay. Here, 
just out of reach of the sand, on a piece of waste ground, the 
Burnet Kose [Bosa spinosissima) grows in abundance. The 
long three mile stretch of level sand along which our course 
lies, burning hot in the blazing noonday sun, was relieved 
only by some plants of the purple Sea Kocket. with thick 
fleshy leaves, a single Curlew, wary as ever, and a few Herring 
Gulls. Ascending the high ground, where Baggy Point juts 
out far into the sea, I leave the coast for a while, and find 
myself in a land of cornfields, and homestalls, and orchards, 
interspersed with rich greenswards, pasturing the red-brown 
Devon cattle. Through the narrow lanes, bordered with 
high, fern-clothed banks, topped with straggling hedges, and 
shaded with tall elms meeting overhead, on past Patsborougli, 
and then down a long deep lane to Croyd. In the leafy tree 
tops I could hear the Cirl Bunting’s sibilant song, but the 
birds kept closely hidden. A path taking one by a short 
cut to the sands over the intervening high ground, pointed 
out by the obliging innkeeper at Croyd, having ended in a 
turnip field at the summit level, whence the yellow sand hills 
of the Burrows could be seen shimmering in the sunlight 
down below, I took a straight line down the hill side, crossing 
several of those huge curious Devon fences, so pretty to look 
at and withal so horrible to get over. 
I had been led to expect numerous botanical treasures at 
Braunton, but my time was too limited for an effectual search, 
and I was disappointed in the flora. Among other things, the 
Sea Lavender [Statice Limonium ) is said to grow there, but 
from what I know of its muddy habitats in East Anglian salt 
marshes (where a stretch of marsh is often one mass of 
Lavender blossom), I should say the portion of the Burrows I 
investigated was too sandy for it. As it was, the locality 
yielded the tiny Dwarf Centaury [Erythrxa pulchella), Sea 
Spurge [Euphorbia Paralias), Small Bugloss [Lycopsis arvensis) 
Viper’s Bugloss ( Echium vulyare ), and a small variety of the 
Rest Harrow ( Ononis arvensis). In wet places near the edge 
of cultivated ground, grew the Small Skull Cap [Scutellaria 
