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be warped by prior and partial observations (Phytol. iii. 381). If there 

 is any principle on which the exclusionists take their stand, it seems to 

 be that of cultivation : they appear to hold it as almost an established 

 axiom, that no plant in general and extensive cultivation for economic 

 or ornamental uses can be free from well-founded suspicion of foreign 

 descent, — such at least is the only conclusion 1 am able to arrive at 

 in attempting to discover the reasons for so much doubt and demur 

 on the side of our British authorities, when the indigenous origin of 

 our plants comes to be mooted. I much wish that some one or more 

 of these doubting gentlemen would step forward and state their ob- 

 jections to the native origin of the Hop and the other disputed vege- 

 tables, on some broad intelligible basis, conducting the ai'gument in 

 the same philosophic and logical way as in the controversy between 

 Daines Barrington and Dr. Ducarel on the right of the chestnut {Cas- 

 tanea vesca) to be held a native of England. The fact is, the Hop is 

 more properly a plant of northern than of southern countries, the 

 " vitis septentrionalium," as it has been called by ancient authors, 

 widely dispersed over the greater part of the temperate zone, being 

 abundantly distributed in Europe, the north of Asia and America, and 

 admitting of successful cultivation only in cool and even boreal latitudes. 



fUltrius campestris, Sm. &c. (non Linn.) Small-leaved Elm. In 

 woods ? and hedges; rare ? Not found in the Isle of Wight. In va- 

 rious places about Lymington, and between Lymington and Boldre, 

 also near Christchurch, both which places I find are given by 

 Goodyer, in Gerarde (em. p. 1478), as the " narrow-leafed Elme," 

 with a very fair figure, and the following account : " This tree is like 

 the other (the common Elme, U. suberosa), but much lesser and 

 lower," &c. &c. "This kinde I have seen growing but once, and that 

 in the hedges by the highway, as I rode betweene Christchurch and 

 Limmington in the New Forrest, in Hampshire, about the middle of 

 September, 1624." Goodyer, like myself, was a native of Hampshire, 

 and botanized much in the county : his testimony confirms my belief 

 that this elm, which is the true U. campestris of Smith's ' English 

 Flora' and the common elm of Norfolk, is a scarce species with us. 

 I believe it to be a mere variety of U. suberosa, with no more appear- 

 ance of being indigenous than that has. 



t suberosa. In thickets, groves, borders of woods and fields, 



and especially in hedgerows ; profusely abundant throughout the en- 

 tire county and Isle of Wight ; by far the most common hedgerow 

 timber tree with us, not excepting the oak itself; yet it is, I think, 

 very questionable if it be really indigenous. Never seen on the abo- 

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