*1: Cliff path, Polbream Cove, Lizard, 1958, DEC
& HLKW (Paton 1969a: 720, Whitehouse & Newton 1988:
92, Blockeel 1989: 27).
See Whitehouse & Newton (1988) for a detailed
account of this species and its British distribution. For
Cornish records and spread in Britain see Whitehouse &
Paton (1963), Paton (1969a: 720), Whitehouse
(1975).
Grows as scattered plants, small patches or low
lawns. Recorded from two areas in Cornwall,
in rather different habitats: Polbream and Housel
Bay
(Lizard): on mainly bare compacted soil of paths on cliff top,
in open, slightly shaded or less often partly shaded by
grasses and scrub. SE. of Tolver: on soil of side of low ridge
in cauliflower field, almost unshaded.
Not seen c.fr.
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