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plentifully on the embankment of the Northern Counties Union Eailway, 

 near Bedale," (p. 50) : Mr. Baker also records it from Thirsk, &c., (North 

 Yorkshire, 909) : and I have seen a specimen collected by Mr. Ibbotson, 

 in a sandy field, near York, where it was gathered in 1863. There can, 

 however, be little doubt that in many of the above localities it is a garden 

 escape, which will fail to retain its hold for long in any one spot. It is 

 not recorded from Scotland or Ireland. A native of the South of Europe. 



>S'. rubella, D.C. I found a plant of this in 1864, on some sandy waste 

 ground, on Wandsworth Common, Surrey, not in the immediate vicinity 

 of houses. A native of Portugal, 



Lychnis Coronaria, L. I observed some roots of this common garden 

 plant on waste ground, at the commencement of Putney Heath, Surrey, in 

 1863. " A few examples " were observed in September last, " on or very 

 near the summit " of a rock, near Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. See 

 Botanists Chronicle, p. 103. A native of Italy. 



Arenaria fastigiata, Sm. " On the rocks on the mountains of Angus- 

 shire and Fifeshire, Mr. G. Don." Cyh. i., 290. " Erroneously recorded, 

 or subsequently extinct in Britain." 



A. halearica, L. " Grew on the north wall of the tool or fruit-house at 

 Moncrieffe House, Perth, in June, 1859. There was only one patch of it, 

 about a foot in diameter." John Sim, in Phyt. v., 39, N.S. Its appear- 

 ance in this locality gave rise to much discussion among certain botanists, 

 as may be seen from the work referred to. Mr. Sim has recently informed 

 me that the wall on which the plant grew has been thrown do\vn, so that 

 it has probably disappeared from the neighbourhood. " Grows now [1861] 

 on several walls and garden buildings on the estate of the Earl of Ilches- 

 ter, Abbotsbury, Dorset. It has been observed there for several years." 

 W. Pamplin, in Phyt. v., 197. N.S. In this locality the plant appears to be 

 permanent. No clue has been obtained as to its introduction. A native 

 of Majorca, &c. 



Stellaria scapigera, Willd. " By the sides of rivulets on the Scottish 

 mountains. In Perthshire, and Loch Nevis, Invernesshire." Mr. G. 

 Don. Eng. Flora, ii., 304. This plant, which is " said to have been 

 found by Don by the sides of rivulets between Dalwhinnie Inn and the 

 old Kirk of Laggan, Perthshire, is ajjparently a monstrosity of S. graminea, 

 and probably from Don's garden ; some plant he met with being mistaken 

 by him for the same as the one he had in cultivation." English Botany, 

 ed. 3, a., 99. 



