232 N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y
■ N°. x v i i . Tender ivy-leaved 'bfell-floWéiy Campanula Gymba-
larite foliis, Ger'.&yil ^on mata/Tnbift -and watry baöks. in this
county.” ‘ ' H |H | V't Tf/CL
leaftTdaffe-cdit^ut^ji GentauMmipfm^rPWg
teum minimum, found-'“Tin-a rotten Boggy gfound' betreen ;Stë! Ives
and Penzance".”
N". XIX. Butter-wort with; a ' finall ^efccbfoured flower, 'Pin-
guïcula fore minore cameo,
about Kilkhaniton and elfewheré ”.”
N°. xx. Great yellow marfli-eyebright, Euphrafia luteax lé ê -
folia palufiris, about boggy places, efpecially towards-the forth©:
end of this county °. ' r : *
,, N°. x x i . Verricillate knot-grafs- with vhym^lfke leaves^ Polygonum
ferpyllifolium . vertidllatum, in watry places between ' St.
Columb and Michel, about Penzance, and tówafds • the Land s
End». I found teatCaftle-Treryn amorig the’roeks.^v
N°. x x ii . : The leaft calve’s-fiiöüt oil fnapdf%öttj;
rkinum minus, o r~ Einaria 'gathered in a bottom! m'tBarfcrêd^
r 754-
sEcr.vn. N°. x x m . Among the lock and difl-plants;|the. famphire,
Rock and Grithmum, feu Fceniculum marinum '/m a y -b e 1 reckoned-’the moft
P ufeful. In the iflands of Scilly this plant4 grows luxuriant .beyBnd
what we have in Cornwall; fome boil it as a pot-herb1 pfdMed, it
is thought to help digeflion: Dr. Leigh, in his*Lancafhirej thinks
it may be ranked in the firft clafs df antifcorbuticks.: gattereil in
great plenty on the cliffs adjoining to the fea in Piran-Uthno parifli
and St. Juft.
N°. xxiv. Common fennel, 1 Fkniculum \vtilgHre' -minus ’ , in
the extreme parts o f Cornwall near the fea, betwixt Lannant and S i
Ives, lays Mr. Ray*. O f this ufeful plant, the^Teed
eye-fight, ftrengthens die ftomach and bowels, and - relieves the
afthma: the leaves increafe the- nurfe’s milk, are a good antenephri-
tic, and the root removes obftrudtions “.
N°. xxv. In fome little iflands, or rather {lightly- covered
rocks, (as Mullion gull-rock in Mount’s Bay, Godrivy ifland in St.
Ives Bay, H?c.) one year nothing grows but mallows (the Malva
arhorea marina, as I take it, of Ray ’ ); the next year nothing but
beets*; the fucceeding year mallows again, and the fourth year beets,
1 Ray, 3d edit, page 277.
“ Ibid, page 286.
” Ibid, page 281.
• Ibid, page 285.
» Ibid, page 147.
? Ibid, page 283.
Ibid, page 217. V-s
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid. , ,4
' Ibid. 1 Beta.fylveftris, maritima, radice perenni.
and
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afld fo on, the mallows and -beets annually taking their turn to pof-
fefs the lfland. This is a very fingular viciffitude, of which I have
received frequent aflertions from leye-witnefles; and it may be attributed,
as I imagine, id the folfeVing eaufe,' & That when »one
ofthefe plants (the mallow, for inftancef fljdbts vigoroufly* it mailers
and keeps under the beet, till its, leav.es tand-ikl|cs^4eit^y y t S k e ) t
then, which l ^ t h e ^fecedingpiyea^ obfcured, and weakened undef
[fc'fh ad e-o f t^ n fa llow , fhoffs away more drly.in thejucfceeding
%ingsn and having the flart of the maHow, overtops, and.^afters iM
till the beet'dg^fys,' and * theriilihe ipaMow,prevails in fflftunv ,feTo
^ # e thefe" plants |io o t m fqllftreng'th,. anj, m ^ a i n . t h S ytJUy
Tovereignty, the.Tpray ofgfehtffea,|th& S f^ s^ o f -the .birds, .(with
.which thefe' rocks are, perpetually- flifcolqufecB);! '^ d -jh e te ow n pu-
trefcent leaves1 and flalks mayycoiitribilf^y ' l^w \ 4s" I have mover
vifitedi theft; roeks'in; perfon^ I am not, fuficiently of-ifft;.
TeVier^, OirQumffangp^of^lfele. ■ fa<^||aod^thfer^fpjp /hall not detamf
the reader,, but refer them to further enquiry.
V: N°. XXVEI. Marfh-afp'atagus or fplfeg^difpamgus pqluftps, yGer *.
found growing on-.the cliffs at((ffie^Lizherd p.oint.^ b lg,
N°. xxvir. Smooth-leaved rupture-w.ort, Herniaria g f$ zd , founef
at.tlie Lizherd Point: plentifully by Mr. Rayk>el
N°. xxvmv Leffer autumnal flar-hyacinth, Hyaci/ithus: autum-
nalis minor, Ger. Park. found in : plenty yon .the Lizherd Point %
f e t t j j g g l Rofe-wort,. t.Iefephium-rofeum, ■ M^or/G gathered /glib
among the rockssat the Land’s
^»N”. xxxOur lands on me fea-fhore afford lome uiefur planf%SECT. vim
of^fhich the eryngo jOr^ f^a-hoffy nay Be reckoned mil; "'it is tlieSand ^
Eryngipni marinum of. Herbajifts ^ , itsrpAt^|^IexcelMt"^rup,beachplanfe‘
and candying, is univerlally acknowledged to be a great reftorative.
It grow|) in greateft plenty on the lqple dry lantk above full.fea-
Itnark, between Penzance and Marazion,^nd on''the Stiffs
Gwythien bridge, where the fea never reaches : it is alfo found in
fo many other parts of this county, that in this‘and famphVe it is
thought Cornwall exceedsvany county in England c. Having tranf-
p%^>d. eryngo from the^beach into a light, fandy, funny part of my
garden. I found it to thrive very well.
I lS jd xxxi. ».Along the Tandy, hills o f the parifhes Elirdefing on
the North-fea, a|,Philac, Gwytbien, and Piran-fand, thefe .grows
a rufh in the dryeft and moft naked fand-heaps, which I take to be
Juncus acutus capitulis SorghtSp Thefe rufhes have a two-fold ufe;
* This mallow has . a woody ftem, as great as
a man’s arm, flowers« and .roots large, faysParkin-
ibn, ad malvam. i <-
>*. Ray, 3d edit, page 267. ,
f Ibid, page 16b. ,tj
* Ibid, page
* Ibid, page 269.
b Ibid, page 222. '
0 Carew, page igr*'" >
d Ray, 3* edit, page 471.
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