Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Biddiford, all along the hedges on both sides the way, grows Hrythrodanum | Rubia peregrina, Linn.| m great plenty, and no doubt also in the rocky ground all there- about. Between Biddiford and Kilhampton, m_ the valleys, and near the rivulets and water courses among the moors, we met with Campanula cymbalariea foliis | Campanula hederacea, Linn., | and Asphodelus Lancastren- sis [| Narthecium ossifragum, Huds.| The river Ex rises not above five miles distant from the north or Severn Sea, and runs into the south or British Sea, givmg denomina- tion to many places, viz. Exford, Exmore, Exton, Ex- bridge, Exeter, and Exmouth. At Kilhampton, on the rocks, is a small sort of alga, broad and variously divided, and, as it were, curled at the top; besides Corallina alba and rubra. Nothmg more frequent hereabout, in boggy and springy places, than Asphodelus Lancastrensis | Nar- thecium ossifragum, Huds.| and Lysimachia galericulata — minor | Scutellaria minor, Linn. :| it hath a flesh-coloured flower, and the lip thereof is spotted with small red spots. Here also is asmall sort of Pinguicula | P.lusitanica, Linn. ; | which seems to differ specially from the common. It hath lesser leaves, crumpled up about the edges, almost pellucid, having red veins frequently, and manifestly visible. The flower is much smaller than thatof the common Pinguicula, and paler, more of the flesh-colour | Conferantur.| The Cotyledon palustris flower | Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Limn. | also grows here; the stalks on which the flowers grow are small and low, bearing at the top five or six very small flesh-co- loured flowers, consisting of five sharp-pointed leaves ; (exam.) vascula seninaha, sunt ea compressa, didyma, velut Thlaspeos cujusdam. In Devonshire, as well as Cornwall, they mend or manure their land with sea-sand. In the east part of Devon they make the walls of their houses very thick, and of a red clay. In many of the towns the chimneys of the houses stand on the foreside towards the street, especially of the older houses. Thursday, June the 26th, we set out for Launceston, twenty miles. There we saw the castle, which is well