CRUCIFER^ 21 



Euclidium syriacimi, R. Br. A weed of cultivated 

 and waste ground from Hungary to India. Once found 

 by the writer on mud, dredged from a pond, in the 

 village of Albury, Surrey. The only way of accounting 

 for its presence there would be to suppose it sifted from 

 foreign grain and used together with the other siftings 

 for feeding fowls, or some such purpose, in a place from 

 which it could be washed into the pond. 



Goldbachia laevigata, DC. Once found with other 

 corn-introduced aliens in the neighbourhood of Oulton, 

 Norfolk. 



Hesperis matronalis, L. Native of damp, grassy, 

 and bushy places from Southern Europe to Central Asia. 

 It is the familiar Dame's Violet, so long cultivated as a 

 garden flower in Northern Europe. Ray and Hudson 

 both wrote of it as a British plant. At the present time 

 it is not uncommon on river banks, in damp ditches, and 

 in woods, where it has more or less obviously escaped 

 from some garden hard by. 



[Iberis amara, L. Native of Southern England and 

 the extreme west of the Continent, in woods and 

 stony places. Throughout its range it is, however, 

 much more common as a cornfield weed, and as a 

 garden escape, than as a native. In fact, in England 

 there are only two reliable records of the species in 

 natural habitats.] 



Iberis umbellata, L. Native in a few places in 

 Southern Europe. It has been commonly cultivated 

 in English gardens for centuries, and appears occasionally 

 as an escape. 



