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the outer or sea edge of the bank, they are rapidly buried 

 there under drifting sand. A rainshower or two, a few 

 days of genial warmth, and the aggressive vitality of the 

 plant do the re.st ; and the stranger from the remote 

 Kamtschatka Peninsula has fairly established a colony 'on 

 the shores of Ireland." It appears that Miss A, G. 

 Kinahan first found the plant in 1891, and she took 

 cuttings into her garden from a place about three hundred 

 yards from the spot where Mr. C. B. Moffat found it. 



Between the publication of these two notes by Mr. 

 Colgan, in the same Journal, on pages 70-75, Professor 

 F. W. Areschoug published a paper on " The Occurrence of 

 Artemisia stcllcriana in Europe.'" Previously to this. 

 Professor Areschoug had contributed to the " Botaniska 

 Xotiserv/' Lund, 1880, p. 137, and 1893, p. Ill, an 

 account of the discovery of this plant in the Scandinavian 

 IV-ninsula. In these papers he endeavoured to show the 

 probability of its being indigenous to Europe, and of its 

 representing a flora now becoming extinct in our part of 

 the globe. He mentions that the plant was met with on 

 the west coast of Skane, the most southerly province o4 

 Sweden, in 1876, but did not attract any special attention 

 till 1880, when he visited the place where it grew. It 

 occurred for a distance of about ten miles along the shore, 

 between the two coast towns of Landskrona and Helsing- 

 bord, and in groups containing a few plants, and situated 

 several hundred or thousand feet from one another. It 

 extended along a zone immediately above that bearing the 

 (maratime littoral) saline Hora, growing on sand and in asso- 

 ciation with Elynms arenariiis and Psamma arenaria. The 

 wide dispersion of this species along the coast of Skane, 

 as well as the great age which some individuals, judging by 

 the very considerable size, must be assumed to have attained, 

 renders it highly probable that if this plant be a naturalised 

 form in Skane, the naturalisation must have taken place at 

 a time far removed from the present. Professor Areschoug 

 goes on to say that since he noticed it in 1880, the plant 

 has not spread itself along this line of coast, and he deduces 

 fiom this that if in some mysterious manner the plant was 

 originally introduced into Skane, this must have been at 

 some remote time. He points out that when it was first 



