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parts so vague, and so much beyond my limited comprehension, that 

 I find it necessary to appeal to the judgment of the candid reader 

 whether I interpret rightly the meaning of the above quotation. I 

 understand, then, Mr. Woodward to mean, amongst other things, that 

 it is a great error to suppose the lmpatiens and Mimulus to be natu- 

 ralized plants, seeing that the four exotics he first enumerates are 

 "on a par" with them, and farther, that he means to say that the 

 lmpatiens and Mimulus have (in common with others) been only 

 found " growing for a season on some lonely rubbish-heap.'" 



On reference to several works I find that the lmpatiens Noli-me- 

 tangere grew wild in Britain in Ray's time. Ray died in 1705, or with- 

 in a year of that time, if I recollect rightly, so -that the plant must 

 have been known as a wild plant for at least 140 years, which is no 

 mean claim to entitle it to rank as a naturalized plant, and it was 

 really too bad of Mr. Woodward to stigmatize it as " growing for a 

 season on some lonely rubbish-heap." 



With regard to the Mimulus luteus, allow me to cite the following 

 localities where the plant has been found more or less abundantly in a 

 naturalized state in this country. 



Ditch-bank below Dudhope Barracks, Dundee. 1815* The sta- 

 tion has been subsequently destroyed by the erection of buildings on 

 the ground the plant occupied. George Palmer.* 



Side of Tnvergowrie burn. 1824, or earlier. f W. Jackson, Sen. 

 (Phytol. ii. 421). 



Boggy margin of a mountain rill, not more than a mile or two from 

 Abergavenny. 1824. Rev. W. T. Bree (Phytol. ii. 420). 



Near Dun Mill, situated near Brechin road. 1843. A. Kerr (Phy- 

 tol. iii. 224). 



Near Largs. 1845. Professor Balfour (Phytol. ii. 320). 



Banks of the Forth, rather less than a quarter of a mile above the 

 bridge at Stirling. 1845. F. Townsend (Phytol. ii. 421). 



Margin of the Dighty, at Strathmartin, Forfarshire. 1845. G. 

 Lawson (Phytol. ii. 389). 



Banks of the Tay, a little below the ruins of Kinclaven Castle, at 

 the junction of the Tay and Islay. 1845. W. Jackson, Juil. (Phytol. 

 ii. 421). 



Plentiful at a burn side, about a hundred yards S.W. from Castle 



* The years noted are those in which the stations were first discovered : the 

 names are those of the original discoverers, so far as known. 

 f Mr. Palmer says probably 1813, 14 or 15. 



