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Huntly garden, Perthshire ; likewise at two ditches about a mile S.E. 

 from that place. 1846. James Chalmers. 



River side near Perth. 1847. John Sime. 



Muir below the bridge of Dun, near Brechin. 1848. W. Ander- 

 son (Phytol. iii. 224). 



Ditch near Brechin Castle, Forfarshire. 1848. W. Anderson and 

 G. Lawson. 



Ceres, Fifeshire. 1848. John Sime. 



Rather abundant on the banks of the Esk, near Kinnaird. John 

 Laing (Forfarshire Flora, 141). 



Fifeshire. Rev. John Anderson, D.D. 



A glance at the above will satisfactorily show that the Mimulus is 

 not indeed confined to ' a solitary rubbish-heap,' but that it has very 

 strong claims to be classed as a naturalized species in this country, 

 and I am very desirous to see it, and many other plants equally well 

 naturalized, regularly received as such in our Floras. At any rate I 

 may be allowed to express a hope that Mr. Woodward will keep the 

 above facts in view when he may again have occasion to write about 

 Mimuli. 



I may be allowed to make a remark or two upon the Invergowrie 

 station, noted above, for the Mimulus. I visited that station in June 

 last, and found the plant fully as luxuriant and in as great abundance 

 as in former years.* The author of the ' Forfarshire Flora' states (p. 

 140) that he found the plant at this station in 1830; that it was in 

 cultivation at the garden of Gray twenty years before [the date of the 

 Flora], say in 1827 : hence he concludes that the plant is an escape 

 from that garden. But the plant was recorded in the ' Phy tologist ' 

 two years and a half ago as having existed " more than twenty-two 

 years before " that time, so that it could not be an escape from the 

 garden referred to. In showing, however, that the Mimulus is not 

 there a garden escape, I am not actuated by any desire to make out a 

 case for its nativity ; and it gives me pleasure at the same time to be 

 able to make the readers of the ' Phy tologist ' aware of its real origin 

 at Invergowrie. For this information I am indebted to my esteemed 

 friend Mr. George Palmer, a most genuine admirer and student of 

 Nature, who tells me that the Mimulus was introduced at Invergow- 

 rie, and likewise at the Dudhope station, in some one or other of the 

 years 1813, 14 or 15, by a Mr. Lennox (now deceased) who was an 



* I shall be glad to supply specimens, showing the luxuriance of the plant, to any 

 of your readers who may feel interested and desire them. 



