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again uncover a portion of the rocks, and form a proper place for its 

 growth. The whole of the Reseda is already collected into a little 

 corner, although I believe it used to be scattered over the rocks, pro- 

 bably most so when they had been but recently left by the quarry- 

 man's hammer. Here is a change taking place the reverse of that 

 mentioned in my preliminary remarks. 



George Lawson. 

 Dundee, August 12, 1848. 



[I confess myself fully as much mystified as Mr. Lawson by Mr. 

 Woodward's paper, but I believe Mr. Woodward has been residing 

 for many years in a remote part of the country, probably without the 

 leisure or inclination to keep up his botanical reading. In connexion 

 with the brief passage Mr. Lawson has cited, I beg to call Mr. Wood- 

 ward's attention to the following records : — 



" Impatiensfulva. At whatever period introduced, this plant is now 

 so thoroughly naturalized, that it would be pedantry any longer to re- 

 fuse it that place in the English Flora, which has been accorded on 

 less strong grounds to many plants originally introduced from abroad. 

 For many miles by the side of the Wey, both above and below Guild- 

 ford, it is as abundant as the commonest river-side plants, the Lythrum 

 Salicaria or Epilobium hirsutum ; and my friend Mr. Henry Cole in- 

 forms me that it is found in various places by the same river all the 

 way to its junction with the Thames. It is equally abundant on the 

 banks of the Tillingbourne, that beautiful tributary of the Wey; espe- 

 cially at Chilworth, where it grows in boundless profusion : and near 

 Albury, where I saw it for the first time in 1822." — J. S. Mill, Phy- 

 tol. i. 40. 



" Lilium Martagon. This plant occurs in tolerable plenty near 

 the village of Sampford, in this county [Essex], on the road from 

 Great Bardfield to Walden. This locality was pointed out to me 

 last May, by my relative Mr. R. M. Smith, of Great Bardfield, who 

 has known of it for above twenty years. The spot is a high bank, 

 sprinkled with low bushes, on the side of a lane leading from the vil- 

 lage eastward to some unexplored part of the county. From the 

 situation I cannot at all suppose that the plant can be an escape from 

 any garden. When I visited the spot there were a considerable num- 

 ber of plants, chiefly growing on the outsides of the clumps of bushes, 

 but sometimes quite out in the grass. I do not see any mention of 

 this locality in Ray's list of the rare plants of Essex, in Camden's 

 Britannia, edit. 1695. — Edward Doubleday ; Epping, August 12, 

 1841, Phytol. i. 62. 



