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not mean indigenous) condition in Britain was thus put on 

 record for the first time. 



Xow I am able to report its occurrence in Scotland. 

 In the company of my friends Mr. John Knox, of Forfar, 

 and the Eev. H. J. Riddelsdell, we visited the Forfarshire 

 coast at Lunan Bay in order to search for the Oyster plant 

 {Pneumaria maritima), but the magnificent growth of Elymns 

 arenarius and Psarnma armidinacea atti'acted attention ; 

 and in examining these I came across a single plant of 

 what again I hurriedly took to be A. cibsinthinm, but 

 which is a small and immature specimen of A. stellcriana , 

 with the Howers scarcely open in early August. That 

 it is superficially like A. absinthium is therefore proved, 

 especially as but a few days before I had been staying at 

 Slapton, in Devonshire, where there is an immense growth 

 of the English "Wormwood. We examined the coast for 

 quite a mile, but saw no other specimen. This grew far 

 away from the saline zone with its Atr'qMccs and drifts 

 of seaweed, among the loose sand-dunes with Elymus, 

 Thalictruin (lunense, and Psamma. There are a few cottages 

 near, but I could see no Artemisia, in the gardens of any 

 of them. I am fully cognisant that we cannot draw 

 any positive conclusions from the occurrence of a single 

 specimen, but it must be taken in connection with its 

 occurrence in Scania, hence my long citation from Professor 

 Areschoug's papers. The latitude of the Scanian localities 

 is about 56", and that of the Forfarshire one about b^"'*! , 

 and the situations are almost precisely identical. 



Mr. John Knox has kindly made another expedition to 

 Lunan Bay and investigated the northern portion, but has 

 been unable to discover any more specimens. 



Professor I. Bayley Balfour kiiully writes me that they 

 grow it in great quantity at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 

 but neither he nor any of his subordinates are cognisant of 

 its being included in Scottish nurserymen's catalogues. 



Mr. Joiin Knox tells me it is cultivated at Glamis Castle, 

 but as Glands Castle is six miles from the source of the 

 river Lunan, we may dismiss any theory of its being carried 

 by watei". 



My own belief is that it was introduced to TiUnan, and 

 probably from Scania, by l)i?ds, but wliether through a 



