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by me D. Ajacis, at the suggestion of a German botanical friend." The 

 Rev. A. M. Norman reports it from " Jersey and Guernsey." Phijt. iv., 

 383, W.S. It seems probable that both have an equal claim to be enumer- 

 ated among the natives of this country. 



D. orientale, Gay. " From a potatoe field at Carlson Moor, near 

 Thirsk." J. G. Baker, PTiyt. ii., 370, N.S. 



Nigella sativa. This, which, like the majority of the plants from the 

 same station, is a native of the south of Europe, is recorded by Mr. Irvine 

 as having occurred on the waste grounds at Wandsworth steamboat pier. 

 PhijL iii., 334, N.S. 



N. Damascena, L., and iV^. arvensis, L. Two South of Europe plants, 

 recorded by Mr. Winch as above, from the ballast hills of Tyne and Wear. 

 These hills are probably identical with those elsewhere referred to as the 

 " Sunderland ballast hills." I have lately received a specimen of iV^. Da- 

 mascena from my friend Mr. W. Roberts, who noticed a few plants of it in 

 August last, growing in a field of flax in the parish of Westward, Cumber- 

 land, associated with Cynosurus echinatus, &c. 



Aconitum Lycoctonum, Reich. " Grows in a meadow in the vale of 

 Newlands, Cumberland, too near a garden," W. Bower, P7ii/^. ii.,431,0.<S. 



A. StoerTcianum, Reich. Several plants of an Aconitum, which ap- 

 pears to be this species, were noticed in May of the present year, growing 

 not very far from the river, near Cookham Bridge, Berks. I removed 

 one to my garden, where it has flowered freely. It had probably been 

 cast out from a garden. 



PcBonia officinalis, L. This plant, which is the common double 

 Peony of gardens, and the P. fcemina of old authors, is recorded by 

 Merrett {Pinax, 1067, p. 96,) as occurring " in a close belonging to Mr. 

 Stevenson, of Sunning-well, in Berkshire, of above fifty years standing, 

 and in Stancomb-Wood, near Winchcomb, Gloucestershire; " the latter of 

 these stations being the one hereafter quoted as belonging to P. coraUina. 

 In the [Cyhele, i, 99,) we are told that Mr. Hancock reports it from "a 

 thicket of bushes near Blaize Castle," northward of Bristol. 



P. corallina, Retz. This species is interesting from the fact that it 

 was at one time enumerated among the indigenous productions of this 

 country. The first notice of it as a British plant appears to be that of 

 Gerarde, who describes it as growing " upon a conyberry in Betsome, 

 Kent, two miles from Gravesend, and in the ground sometimes belonging 

 to a farmer there called John Bradley ; " on which his editor, Johnson, 



