166 Flora of Devon and Cornwall, by I. W. N. Keys. 
point!, Stonehouse, near Plymouth, or (as the habitat is described 
in Ft. Dev. auct. Mr. Yonge), " eastern point of the entrance to 
Hamoaze."* — C- Said to have been found on the shore of Mount's- 
bay, near Penzance ; but not met with there by Rev. J. P. Jones 
so far back as 1820.f Field Eryngo. Levant Sea Holly. Hundred- 
headed Thistle. 
It is mentioned in J.B.T. (2nd ed. p. 40) that George Anderson, Esq., of 
West Ham, who accompanied the Eev. J. P. Jones on several excursions, 
found E. campestre on some old walls near the Tavy ; but the author adds, — 
" I strongly suspect it had escaped from a garden. Our stay was too short 
at Tavistock to speak decidedly on the subject." 
The following notice in Cyh. Brit. iii. 438 of additional localities in 
Britain should not be omitted :—" In 1847-8 Mr. Thomas Clark and Mr. 
F. J. A. Hort found this plant in some plenty in the neighbourhood of 
Weston in Somerset. And Mr. Francis Brent communicated specimens to 
the Botanical Society of London, gathered on the banks of the Taff, near 
Cardiff, Glamorganshire, in October, 1848. The former confirms thespecies 
to the province of Peninsula ; while the latter habitat adds that of South 
Wales. Whether or not the plant should be deemed a denizen in those two 
counties, I [Wats.'] am myself not able to say." 
* The only known station in Devon for this interesting plant, and here 
(restricted as it now is to the very brink of the cliffs) its extinction seems 
imminent. According to Jones and Kingston, it was formerly found in other 
places in* this neighbourhood. They give the following habitats [Fl. Dev. 
p. 47) : — "Saltash ferry, Plymouth (Eay). 1 Sir Francis Drake and Mr. 
Hudson found this plant as you ascend the rock from Crimble passage, 
near Mount Edgcumbe (MS. Tour.) Walls [?J of Plymouth garrison (Kev. 
Mr. Tozer)." 
f In J.B.T. it is said that Dr. Penneck (a naturalist, of Penzance) had 
never been able to find the plant, and that he suspected the habitat was 
destroyed. This gentleman had in his possession a large herbarium formed 
by two herborists of the neighbourhood. Mr. Jones examined this collection, 
but could not find the plant. 
It is a botanical tradition that Devil's point was Eay's station. That it was so consi- 
dered by Mr. Banks is clear, from his saying in P. ^-D.FI. (after adducing this habitat only) 
that the plant " flourishes at this time on the identical spot where our indefatigable 
countryman Ray said it grew." Sir William Hooker remarks also, in his note on this 
plant, that it was "found in Ray's time, at Devil's-poiut, ytouehouse, near riyjnouth." 
May it not, then, be piesumed that the authors of Fl. Dev. throug'h some miscon- 
ception named iSaltash ferry as Ray's habitat? iSIr. Jones himself would appear to have 
been in uncertainty about the locality ; for, in his Tour (published a few years before the 
Fl. Dev.), he says, — " At Plymouth we detei mined on a tour through Coiuwall ; and having 
crossed the Hamoaze were lauded near Mount Edgecambe. Leaving the park on our 
left, we ascended a hill, and soon after reached the shore. It was at this place that Ray 
found Eryiigium cawpestrc. Our search for this rare plant, though diligent, was un- 
successful : 1 suspect the habitat is destroyed." The " shore " here alluded to was, it may 
be mferred, some part on the borders of Millbrook lake ; for Mr. Jones just afterwards 
speaks of passing through that village. Now Saltash ferry is four or five miles distant 
from the spot indicated. Can this discrepancy be reconciled? 
