Flora of Devon and Cornwall, by I, W. N, Keys. 1G3 
wood, near Ivybridge, apparently wild, but no doubt originally 
planted ; Widey, near Plymouth (equally suspicious), " Well 
established at Clovelly*:" Rav. London Pride. St. Patrick's 
Cabbage. None-so-pretty. 
S. stellaris (L.) — E.B. 167. — "Damp rocks on mountains" 
(Bab. Man.)—C- "o." Dr. Maton, in Botanist's Guide. See N.B.G. 
p. 8. • 
The above is all the information I can obtain from Mr. H. C. Watson 
respecting the occurrence of tliis plant in Cornwall. It will be observed that 
he has affixed to it his mark of suspicion in G.B.S. This, coupled with the 
fact that the species is an inhabitant of "mountains," leads me to believe 
that we shall search in vain for it in this district. 
In Cyh. Brit. i. 408, Mr. Watson remarks, — " I know of no plant ' in the 
fissures of rocks, near Castle Treryn,' in Cornwall, which could be mistaken 
for this Saxifrage, unless it were the Sedum Telephium ; and yet the alleged 
habitat is highly improbable, and not confirmed." 
S. hypno'ides (L.)—E.B. 454.—" Mountains " (Bab. Man.)— J). 
About 18 or 20 years since a patch of this plant grew in St. 
Andrew's church-yard, Plymouth. It has disappeared ; and but 
for the alleged occurrence of the plant in other parts of the 
county, T should have scarcely considered this worth mentioning. 
Dartmoor : Per. Dart. (I have traversed a large portion of this 
tract of country, but never saw the plant.) Dunkeswell : IVarr. in 
Bav. Mossy Saxijrage. 
A specimen (coll. Hore) marked " cultivated " is in P. I. Herb. 
S. tridactylites (L.) — E.B. 501. — Walls, house-tops, and dry 
banks. — J). Frequent, prevailing in the South. Under the Citadel, 
and on many old walls in Plymouth and Devonport ; at Lipson!, 
* Mr. G. S. Gibson, in a notice of some localities of Devonshire and 
Cornish plants in Phytol. 1846, p. 681, says, — "The romantic little Clovelly, 
built as it is on the side of a precipitous hill, and surrounded by rocks and 
hills wooded to their base, might not be unlikely to produce some rarities, 
but all I noticed there was Saxifraga umbrosa growing in several wet spots 
among the trees in great profusion ; whether or not it might have been 
originally planted I cannot tell, but there were no other cultivated plants 
around, neither did it bear any marks of having been placed there by the 
hand of man." 
