1861.] 



ISATIS TINCTORIA. 



151 



Veronica Beccabuuga : Broocklyme, 



p. 1, f. 50. 

 Veronica Chamsedrys : Germander, p. 1, 



f. 52. 

 Veronica hedersefolium : Chikewede, 



p. 1, f. 10. 

 Veronica ofEcinalis (Salvia Veronica 



fcemina), p. 2, f. 126. 



Veronica serpyllifolia : Panlis Betonye, 



p. 1, f. 34. 

 Vinca minor : Perw-inkle, p. 1, f. 60. 



V. major. — In gardens. 

 Viola alba, p. 1, f. 163. 

 Viscum : Mistletoe, p. 2, f. 165. 

 Xantliiimi : Clot Bur, p. 2, f. IVO, 

 Yew : Uhe, p. 2, 687. 



ISATIS TINCTORIA. 

 By John Lloyd. 



Since I discovered this plant near to the New Wandsworth 

 station upon the Crystal Palace Railway [vide ' Phytologist/ Au- 

 gust; 1860), several very interesting particulars have come to my 

 knowledge concerning it, which I here submit to the readers of 

 the journal above named. 



The plant was grown for several years by Mr. Wilson Saunders, 

 late of East Hill, Wandsworth, and his garden was about half a 

 mile from its present station in the railway cutting. 



The question naturally suggests itself. Did it escape from the 

 garden ? From the proximity of the garden and the cutting, it 

 may be inferred that it did do so ; but, on the other side of the 

 question, that inference may be objected to upon two grounds : 

 first, it has left no traces on the line of its supposed migration, 

 although there is a cutting belonging to the South-western Rail- 

 way between the above-mentioned garden and the Crystal Palace 

 Railway upwards of twenty feet deep ; and secondly, Mr. Saunders 

 removed from Wandsworth to Reigate during the time that the 

 Crystal Palace Railway was in progress, and removed his plants 

 of Isatis to his new abode. The suggestion of J. S. M. in the 

 'Phytologist^ for September, 1860, that it was sown amongst 

 the herbage, — appears to be a more reasonable solution to the 

 question, — as to how came it there, — than any other hypothesis 

 which I have seen or heard advanced ; and perhaps the plants 

 which he discovered in Kent may owe their origin to a similar 

 circumstance. A short account of the plants which were taken" 

 to Reigate may not be uninteresting. 



They were planted in a shrubbery, where they have established 

 themselves so firmly as to become almost troublesome weeds, and 



