4 ALIEN FLORA OF BRITAIN 



Jnitices" in Servia (Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, xlix. 

 [1899] 239), it would appear to be a native of the east 

 of Europe. 



Delphiniuiu Gonsolida, L. This species has been so 

 frequently confused with the above that it is safer to 

 submit the note upon the latter as applicable to both 

 in conjunction. 



Delphinium orientale, L. A garden escape. It is a 

 weed of cultivation in South-East Europe. 



Eranthis hyemalis, Salisb. A native of the south of 

 Europe which has long been cultivated and is now 

 naturalised in most of the countries of Northern Europe. 

 In England it frequently occurs in a spontaneous state 

 and often in great profusion, but always near houses 

 and gardens. 



[Helleborus viridis, L. Native in woods and bushy 

 places in England and Wales, especially on chalk and 

 limestone soils. It is, however, more common as a relic 

 of cultivation, persisting as it does where once planted 

 until, its more transitory human surroundings having 

 disappeared, it may perhaps have only a few fruit trees 

 or a boundary mound to show its origin. Ray and 

 Gerarde knew it only in such situations, and such noted 

 botanists of more modern times as H. C. Watson have 

 doubted its claim to a place in the British Flora ; but 

 its permanence in certain localities against which no 

 suspicion rests and its presence in similar places in 

 Normandy and Belgium seems to warrant its inclusion 

 as a native of Britain.] 



