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shire amount to 45 ; in Aberdeenshire there are only 22. The 

 Legummiferce in the two counties are 59 and 25 respectively ; the 

 Labiata, 41 and 24; Compositce, 89 and 50. 



The latter county indeed contains a few plants not found in 

 the south of England. 



The certainly naturalized plants of Devon, such as CEnothera 

 biennis, Saxifraga umbrosa, Lilium Martagon, Antirrhitium majus, 

 Linaria Cymbalaria, L. supina, etc., are between 30 and 40.* 



Those possibly .introduced, but apparently native, are few. 

 Acer Pseudo-Platanus, Fragaria elatior, Tamarix anglica, Ribes 

 Grossularia, Petroselinum sativum, Anthriscus Cerefolium, Cen- 

 tranthus ruber, Tragopogon porrifolius, Borago officinalis, An- 

 chusa sempervirens, etc., are examples. 



The plants peculiar to Devon are found on Dawlish Warren, 

 Shute Common, near Axminster, etc. These are Lobelia urens 

 and Trichonema Columns. Are there any other plants peculiar 

 to Devonshire ? 



The list of dubious and bracketed plants is not large. Del- 

 phinium Consolida, Lathyrus latifolius, Bunium Bulbocastanum, 

 Asperula arvensis, Diotis maritima, Vaccinium Oxycoccus, Cicen- 

 dia filiformis, Verbascum Lychnitis, are the chief examples. A 

 question is put about the last-named plant, for which no recent 

 authority is quoted for its growth in Devonshire, namely, — Is this 

 the true Lychnitis, which is said to grow only in Kent and Gla- 

 morganshire ? 



Devonian botanists may give a satisfactory answer to the query 

 about the verity of the species : almost any botanist can certify 

 that Verbascum Lychnitis is not exclusively confined to these 

 two counties. It is common in some parts of Kent, and it is not 

 very uncommon in some parts of Herts, teste the reverend author 

 of the ' Flora Hertfordiensis,' etc. The writer of this notice saw 

 a plant, no longer ago than last summer (1859), between Hatfield 

 and Brocket Hall. 



Mr. Pamplin has also repeatedly reported the species from 

 several parts of Merionethshire, in Wales; and living Welsh 

 botanists report it from Denbighshire. 



* The alien plants in the Devon list, according to our author, is not much above 

 one-thirtieth of the entire Flora. The ahens in the Yorkshire list amount to 

 nearly one-ninth of the number of species in the said Elora. The latter authority 

 follows the London Catalogue ; the former is supposed to have taken Nature for 

 his guide in determining the genuineness of the species i-ecorded in his list. 



