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truly wild as in any situation in England or Ireland. The 

 other locality is on the left bank of the Tay^ opposite the 

 centre of Perth city, and it is possible it may be there an 

 outcast from a garden, as gardens are in the vicinity of its 

 habitat ; it is in this latter place very sparingly found. 

 I cannot close this paper without remarking that I am more 

 than ever confirmed in my opinion that Aremonia agrimonioides 

 is a true native of Scotland. What corroborates my views on 

 this point is its hardy nature, for it endures the severest winters 

 in exposed as well as in sheltered places, and its want of beauty 

 in the florist's eye to render it worthy of a place in the parterre. 

 Notwithstanding the unprecedentedly rigorous winter of 1859-60, 

 when numbers of our native plants succumbed to the intensity 

 of the frost, this humble unassuming plant stood the cold in 

 exposed ground in the open air when the thermometer was, on 

 the night of the .13th and 14th February this year, as low as 

 zero. The cold of that night killed every geranium [Pelargonium 

 strictly speaking) in the sill of my parlour window. I have 

 had the Aremonia growing in the open air unsheltered for three 

 winters, and it has thriven amazingly ; no amount of cold common 

 to Britain seems capable of destroying its vitality. The same 

 remarks in a great measure apply to Claytonia alshioides, which 

 has not only thrown out successive crops of blossoms from May 

 to October, but endured the cold of this rigorous winter and is 

 still living and thriving in a pot in the open air ; it was exposed 

 outside all winter along with the Aremonia. It appears to me 

 not to be annual, but time will tell. 



John Sim. 



LASTEEA KEMOTA. 

 By John Lloyd, 



In reading Mr. Moore's account of Lastrea remota in the 

 * Phy tologist ' for the present month (April, 1860) two questions 

 suggested themselves to me : first, what is Aspidium remotum of 

 Professor Braun ? and, secondly, is his plant and the Windermere 

 plant identical ? 



It appears that Professor Braun first associated it with Lastrea 



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