SCROPHULAEIACEJ]. 199 



Cultivated and waste ground ; rare. A. July — September. 

 II. In a field near Strawberry Hill, plentiful. In some quantity in a 

 newly-enclosed garden by Teddington Ey. Station. Cornfield, 

 Tangley Park, a single plant. 

 III. Potato field near Twickenham Ey. Station, one plant. 

 VII. [Marylebone Infirmary garden ; Varefine.] Waste ground near 

 Chelsea College, 1861, Britten; Phyt. N. S. vi. 349. 



First record: Varenne, 1S27 -30. Partial to dry sandy soils. 



LINAEIA, Mill. 



476. * Ji, Cymbalaria, Mill. Ivy-leaved Toad-flax. Boving Jenny. 

 L. hederaceo fol. glahro, seu Cymbalaria vulgaris, R. H. Inst. (Dill.). 



Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, L. (Curt., Smith, &c.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 217. Curt. F. L. f. 1 (drawn from a Middlesex specimen). 

 Walls; common. A. June — September. 

 I. Eastcott ; Melv. 57. Pinner. 

 II. On the water gallery at Hampton Court!, 1829; Winch. MSS. 

 Sunbury. 



III. Abundant about Isleworth, Twickenham, &c. 



IV. Mill Hill, 1837, Mr. Children; Herb. Mus. Brit. Hampstead ; Irv. 



MSS. Sudbury, W. M. H. ; Melv. 57. Tombs in Stanmore Church- 

 yard. Near Whetstone. 

 V. Ealing; Bond. Fl. 131. About Brentford. 

 VI. Highgate, Eev. S. Palmer ; Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 266. Upper Edmonton, 



abundant. Bet. Enfield and Winchmore Hill Wood ; Church. 

 VII. Abimdantly on the walls of Chelsea Garden, and in neighbouring 

 places; B. iS'yw. iii. *282. Frequent about London; Huds.'i. 21\. 

 Walls of the Thames ; Mart. App. P. C. 65. [On the Temple wall ; f 

 Curt. F. B.] [Sommerset House, 1802;] about Chelsea, 1809; 

 Winch. MSS. On Battersea Bridge, Sowerby ; Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Blackwall, 1836 ; Herb. Young. Kentish Town, 1841 ; Herb. Hardw. 

 Ken Wood. Haverstock Hill. Eel-brook Meadow. 

 First record : Billeoiius, 1724; also first as a British plant.| Dillenius 

 {loc. cit.) considered that Chelsea Gardens was the point from which 

 this plant, a native of South Europe, originated in England, or at all 

 events about London ; and in this notion he was followed by Thos. 

 Martyn, Curtis, and Smith. Dr. Bromfield, in Phyt. iii. 621, combats 

 this view, holding B. Cymbalaria to have been known ' from an inde- 

 finitely remote period ' in England, but to have been a comparative 

 rarity till the general diffusion of a taste for gardening. He calls 



t Curtis says, ' In all those parts near London that lay within reach of the Thames ; 

 seeds are carried by the flux and reflux of the tide up and down the river, and left at high- 

 water mark in the crevices of old walls, where they take root and increase very fast.' 



X Dr. Richardson was perhaps really the earliest observer : ' Everywhere in quarries at 

 Darford, Yorkshire ' ; R. Sijn. iii. *282. 



