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pressed his belief that the plant was entirely confined to Cornwall. 
" It is remarkable," says he, " that this plant has never been found 
in any part of the world except Cornwall, where a Mr. Stephens 
discovered it early in the present century." He states the figure 
E. B., table 683, to have been drawn from a plant gathered by 
Dawson Turner and Mr. Sowerby near Bodmin. In the seventh 
edition of Withering's work there is a fuller account of Mr. 
Pennington's finding it. We are informed he met with it in a field 
that had been ploughed after lying fallow for ages. Withering- 
says, being himself at Bodmin in June, 1793, "I applied to Mr. 
Gilbert, the proprietor of the land, who very obligingly sent a 
person to conduct me to the field in which Mr. Pennington had 
rediscovered the plant. The field is more than a mile north of 
Bodmin ; the furze is again growing upon it ; but not a single 
plant of the Ligusticum (Physospermum) was to be found. Dr. 
Hall favoured me with his company on this occasion, and we 
searched the surrounding fields and hedgerows to no purpose. At 
length, in a field about half a mile further from Bodmin, on ground 
sloping to a valley facing to the west, and nearly at the bottom of 
the slope, we discovered a few plants amongst the furze. Mr. Stack- 
house informs me he has since observed it plentifully at Hungerhill, 
in the parish of Cardynham." (p. 377.) Draw Wood, Bradoc, was 
added to its list of stations in the Botanist's Guide, of the date 
1805, on the authority of the younger Edward Forster. Jones, in 
his Botanical Tour, published in 1820, says, " Bodmin was 
principally interesting to us" (Mr. Anderson was with him) "in 
consequence of that rare plant Ligusticum cornubiense being found 
wild only in its neighbourhood. The Kev. Mr. Gilbert, to whom 
we had a letter of introduction, very politely sent his servant to 
conduct us to the spot. We found the plant growing very 
abundantly two miles north-west of Bodmin, on Hare Down, half 
a mile above Dunmere river. Having obtained some specimens, 
we determined to pass over to St. Neots." (p. 37.) About 1840 the 
area of the plant was found to be considerably larger than had 
been supposed, by the Eev. W. S. Hore, at one period an energetic 
member of our Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, dis- 
covering it in an oak coppice near Tavistock, about a quarter of a 
mile from Newbridge, on the Tamar. This added it to the Devon 
list. In 1852 Joseph Woods, the author of the well-known, 
though now scarce and dear, Tourist 1 s Flora, found it in the upper 
