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adhere to the clothes of passers-by and to the coats of animals. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, subobtuse, the lower ones narro^yed into winged petioles, 

 and slightly decurrent, those on the upper part of the stem scarcely 

 stalked, nearly opposite, or 3 or 4 in a whorl, more or less clothed 

 with hairs, many of which are hooked-poiiited. Peduncles very short, 

 at first erect, afterwards recurved, 1-tlowered. Corolla i inch across, 

 dull purplish blue. Calyx in fruit -I inch long, dorsally compressed, 

 of 2 palmately laciniate valves, adpressed to each other, with a ])ro- 

 minent network of veins, sparingly ciliated and clothed with bristly 

 hairs. Nucules yellowish-grey, ^ inch long, thickly studded with 

 smooth white scalelike patches. 



German Mudwort. 



French, Itapdte coucliee. German, Liec/endes Schlangeiiduglein. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



MERTENSIA VIRGINICA. Don. 



According to Dr. Bromfield, this plant was found by the Rev. M. 

 NichoUs in the ruins of an old castle near Netley Abbey, Hants. * 



SYMPHYTUM ORIENTALE. im«. 



Has been noticed in an apparently wild state in England, but 

 possesses no claim to be considered native. (Bab. Man.) I have not 

 seen specimens. 



SYMPHYTUM TAURICUM. W!IM. 



Occurs as a garden escape at Allesley, Warwickshire, and on a 

 hedge-bank near the Observatory, Cambridge. 



SYMPHYTUM ASPERRIMUM. M. Bieh. 



Near the head of the valley leading from Oakfort to the Rocks, Bath. 

 Mr. T. B. Flower has, however, been unable to find it this year (1866), 

 so it has probably disappeared. It formerly grew also at Duck-street, 

 between Audley End and Littlebury, Essex, but has not been seen 

 there for some time. It also used to gi'ow near Mickleham, Surrey, 

 but in 1866 I could not find it in the station where ten years ago I 

 collected it. 



ECHINOSPERMUM LAPPULA. Lehm. 

 Occurred many )'-ears ago on shingle at Southwold, Sussex. It was 



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