Dr. Suirnu' Remarks, &c. 237 
my worthy friend, Dr. Gwyn, at Ipfwich, where feveral of the 
plants came up and flowered. "This fpecies was never, to the beft 
of my knowledge, feen in an Englifh garden before, at leaft not in 
modern times. 
On vifiting Mr. Crowe, F. L. S. at Lakenham, this fummer, 
he to my great furprize fhewed me a recent wild fpecimen of the 
real C. J/flitialis, gathered by himfelf in a grafly field at Arminghall, 
about two miles from Norwich, in a gravelly foil, where he affured 
me he had obferved it for feveral years undoubtedly wild. Mr. 
Crowe himfelf did not confider this as a very important diícovery, 
not recollecting that there was any difference betweén the plant 
he had gathered at Arminghall, and that we uíed to have in our 
gardens about Norwich ten or twelve years ago, the two fpecies 
being indeed much alike at firft fight. If indeed they had been 
the fame, it might have been fuppofed that feeds had efcaped from 
a garden, and planted themfelves, or been intentionally fown, in the 
field above mentioned. But as the true C. /2/////1s has never been 
in any garden, in this neighbourhood at leaft, except Dr. Gwyn’s 
‘forty miles diftant, and that not till the year 1788, I have no doubt 
that this fpecies is really wild at Arminghall. Whether it may 
have been in former times introduced among corn from abroad, I 
cannot tell; it now grows among fhort grafs, with all the appear- 
ance of a wild plant; nor are the farmers here in the habit of im- 
porting feed from abroad. 
It remains therefore to be examined whether C. melitenfis be like- 
wife a native of our ifland or not. Perhaps the old herbariums 
in the Britifh Mufeum may throw fome light on this fubject*, or 
the places of growth mentioned by Ray and Hudfon may ftill af- 
ford the plant they intended. 
* I have fince examined them without obtaining any pofitive fatisfaction. 
