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320 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF QTAGO, NEW ZEALAND,
CJienopodium Bonus-Henricus, L.—Four plants in a waste spot
close to Newton Ferrers House, an old mansion, formerly the seat of
the Cory tons (now of Pentillie), near Pillaton, Cornwall, August,
1869. Within twelve miles of Plymouth I have met with it in only
one other spot, near another Newton Ferrers, which is in Devon.
There, too, it occurs close to an old mansion, Puslinch House. It is
most clearly a denizen at both places, througt its having been formerly
cultivated as a potherb.
Habenaria hifolia, " Br. ;" Bab.—Many specimens on Ringmoor
Down, near Sheepstor, Devon. June, 1869. Pillaton Down, Corn-
wall. 1869.
Narcissus hijlorus. Curt.—Some patches of this on top of a hedge-
bank, bounding an orchard, at Kingsmill, near Landulph, Cornwall,
and also in the orchard. April, 1869. Sparingly with the double-
flowered variety of Narcissus poeticus, L., in an orchard near Bo-
ringdon House, Weston Peverell, in the spring of the same year.
Some botanists seem to consider N. biflorus a native in the West of
England, but at all the spots where I have hitherto seen it in Devon
and Cornwall, it is clearly nothing more than a denizen. In an or-
chard, at Bickleigh, the double-flowered N. poeticus is as abundant as
I have ever seen N. bifiorus in any one locality.
Botrycliium Lunaria, Sw.—Eare, near Plymouth. It, however, oc-
curred very plentifully in a grassy pasture, rather more than 800 feet
above the sea-level, a few miles from Plympton, in June, 1869. The
same locality produced OpMoglossum vulgatum, L., but not so abun-
dantly as it did the Botrycliium.
The places mentioned above are in Devon, unless the contrary is
stated.
4, Portland Villas, Plymouth^ October 6, 1869.
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTA GO, NEW ZEALAND.
By W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S.
Genus I. Epilobium. .
W^ith Dr. Hooker, I feel at a loss Avhether to regard some at least
of the Otago Epilobia as species, or as mere forms of a comprehensive
Protean type. It is only the non-possession of a sufficiently complete