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it escaped occasionally in the south of England. L. Cymbalaria has 

 indeed a very wild appearance in many parts of the country. It is 

 become very common in Sussex since I brought it in my pocket, when 

 a boy, from Westminster Bridge, the first time I ever met with it. I 

 have seen it looking very native-like near Boxgrove, not, as usual, on 

 a wall, but on a hedge-bank by the road-side. I know not whether 

 it continues there. 



I can scarcely doubt that Impatiens Noli-me-tangere is truly indi- 

 genous in Westmoreland. It is not confined to Stock Gill (where I 

 saw it in 1810, and where, as Mr. Gibson observes, it still grows), but 

 far up the Scandale Beck, and separated from Stock Gill by the ridge 

 running down from the Snaka Moss, and in various places by Win- 

 dermere, into which lake the waters of both these streams, after unit- 

 ing with the Rothay and the Brathay, are ultimately discharged. 



Spircea salicifolia has long been recorded as a native of the shores 

 of Windermere ; yet I regard it as most probably introduced, like 

 Rosa alpina, of which there are many bushes along the road through 

 the Bellegrange woods on the western shore. The Spiraea grows also 

 in a hedge by the road from Penrith to Wigton, not far from Hutton 

 Hall. I doubt much whether it is truly indigenous anywhere in Bri- 

 tain. It was quite naturalized near Dunkeld, as long ago as 1808 ; 

 but we learned that it had been planted. It has been planted too 

 near Bala, North Wales, in various places along the road towards 

 Corwen, where a stranger, without inquiry, might well believe it a 

 native. I have not seen it by the Dee below Bala, where Mr. Woods 

 observed it many years ago ; but I should suppose it very likely to 

 have been carried down from some garden by the river. 



Meconopsis cambrica occurs in many places in the lake district : 1 

 should suppose it indigenous. 



Jiincus Jiliformis grows by Thirlemere, on the west shore of the 

 upper lake, and in a meadow at its head, as well as in the long-known 

 place near Keswick. 



Miss Wright showed me Rosa gracilis {Woods) in Mr. Woods' ori- 

 ginal place, by the road over Whinlatter. The rose in " Howrey 

 Field," Keswick, which has been taken for R. cinnamomea, is the 

 American R. lucida. There are two plants of it in the hedge near 

 the junction of the river Greta with the Derwent, and they are spread- 

 ing by their creeping roots. I saw a quantity of the common double- 

 flowered R. cinnamomea in a hedge by the road from Bowness to 

 Kendal, — planted, of course. By the Crummock Lake, by the road 

 from Buttermere to Scale Hill, I found one bush of a rose which Mr. 



