204 i'HE NATURALIST. 



Shoebury {Flora of Essex, 33.) ; also on and about the railway near Wiven- 

 hoe {Botanist's Chronicle, p. 77.) ; and I have observed it in similar situa- 

 tions near Ingatestone. In Kent, it occurs near Dover : and in Surrey I 

 have collected it on Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, at Kew Bridge, 

 Battersea, etc. In Middlesex a few specimens may usually be found about 

 Parson's Green, near Fulham, and in the grounds of Chelsea College ; and 

 it is recorded from cornfields at Koxeth by the Rev. W. M. Hind {Phyt. v., 

 204. N.S.) ; this is the most natural locality for it with which I am ac- 

 quainted. In Lancashire I am informed by Mr. Cockshott that it occurs 

 on the banks of the Mersey, at Nortken, near Manchester ; in Worcester- 

 shire it occurs about Worcester, etc., and seems " pretty well Naturalized." 

 (See Phyt. iv., 970. O.S.) : in Yorkshire it grows on " river banks and waste 

 places." (Supp. Flo. Yorkshire, p. 43. j ; and in Durham it is recorded from 

 West Hartlepool, and the ballast hills of Tyne and Wear. In all of these 

 localities, with the exception, perhaps, of that at Eoxeth, there can be little 

 doubt but that the plant is a garden escape ; and it probably occurs as such 

 in most of the English counties. I have no record of its appearance in 

 Scotland or Ireland. 



L. Iberis, Poll. Appears, from a review in Phyt. ii., 113. N.S., to have 

 occurred in a wild state about Oxford ; it was observed by Mr. Irvine at 

 Wandsworth steamboat pier, but " only once, and then but one specimen." 

 Phyt. Hi., 339. N.S. A native of the South of Europe. 



Vella annua, L. '' Found by Mr. Lawson on Salisbury Plain, not far 

 from Stonehenge." R. Syn. Hi., ^04. In the 3rd edition of English Botany, 

 now publishing, it is stated, on the authority of the Eev. W. W. Newbould, 

 that " the plant which represents it in the Sloane herbarium is Reseda lutea." 

 (i., 224,); and this renders it probable that the original notice was errone- 

 ous. The plant has also occurred at Wandsworth steamboat pier, where 

 it was '' noticed first in 1852, and in every subsequent year till 1855, in 

 which it was not visible. In 1853 it occurred, but sparingly, on soil laid 

 on Battersea Fields. The j)lant has disappeared at Battersea." {H.B.P. 

 711.) and also at Wandsworth. A native of the South of Europe, as is 

 also the following. 



Eruca sativa, Lam. " On the new quay at Wandsworth." J. T. 

 Syme. Phyt. iv., 862. O.S. This is the earliest notice which we have of 

 the now well known station at Wandsworth steamboat pier. Here the 

 plant continued " very abundant for several years." H.B.P. 705. 



Cramhe orientalis, L. " Escaped and wild, but not indigenous, at the 



