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NOTES RESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS. 317
lost to the island. I am happy to say that in July, 1868, it was found
by Mr. J. G-. Baker and Dr. Tate on the south-eastern extremity of
Westover Down. Dr. Tate kindly took me to the locality on the 5th
of July last, when we found the plant abundant and in full bloom ; it
grows principally on the rough sloping ground, and also more sparingly
on the unbroken turf higher up.
Callitriche hamulata, Kutz. Staplers, near Newport. New to the
island under this name.
Polygonum aviculare littoi'ale. Link. Totland, Freshwater ; in a
disused brickfield near the shore.
EchinocJdoa Crus-galli, Beauv. One fine plant only, observed on
the rough ground ne^r the shore at Freshwater Gate. August, 1869.
New to the Isle of Wight ; (?) and to Hants.
Dr. Tate, F.L.S., has added the following plants to the flora of
the Isle of Wight :—
Fumaria micrantha, near Yarmouth.
Biplotaxis tenuifolia, near CliflF End Fort, Freshwater.
Folypogon Monspeliensis, above Yarbridge on Norton side.
Keu^ort, Isle of Wight, October 13th, 1869.
NOTES KESPECTING SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS.
By T. E. Archer Briggs, Esq.
Hypericum dubium. Leers.—Veiy rare in the neighbourhood of
PhTuouth, for within twelve miles of this town I have seen it in only
one locality, situated in the vale of the Lynher, between Pillaton Mills
and Clapper Bridge, Cornwall. There, in July last, were about a
dozen plants, growing mostly either on a bank by the stream that
supplies the mill, or on a damp hedgebank, between two marshes.
Hypericum undulatum, Schousb. H. Bcsticum, Boiss. Lond. Cat.
ed. 6.— Several roots in a boggy piece of ground by the road leading
from S. Mellion to Pillaton, Cornwall, July, 1869. Copiously in tbe
valley of the Lynher, between Pillaton Mills and Clapper Bridge,
growing mostly about springs in a moist pasture, and by the side of a
drain parting a vrood from a marsh. Further west it becomes more
general, and in the parish of Probus, a few miles from Trui'O, it is one