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<Enothera rosea, Soland. A native of marshes and 

 stream banks in Mexico and temperate South America. 

 It has been recorded twice in England, once at Kelso 

 in Roxburgh, and I have seen it growing plentifully in 

 a wood border, and in a neighbouring potato-field at 

 Holnicote in Somersetshire. The only possible explana- 

 tion of its occurrence there would be its cultivation in 

 some neighbouring cottage garden. 



(Enothera tenella, Cav. A native of Chile. Once 

 recorded by Dr. Leitch at Silloth in Cumberland, 

 where it was presumably a garden outcast. 



LOASACE^. 



Mentzelia albicaulis, Dougl. A native of arid sandy 

 plains in Western North America. Once recorded in 

 England, probably as a garden outcast. 



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.ffigopodmm Podagraria, L. Native in woods and 

 meadows in Eastern Europe, and possibly further than 

 this in a north-westerly direction. In England it is 

 common, but its habitat is apparently always near 

 houses. Where it is abundant in a village it can 

 usually be traced for a short distance along the neigh- 

 bouring hedges and field-borders, but careful search has 

 invariably failed to satisfy the writer that it occupies 

 quite natural habitats in England. If Cockayne is 



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