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dental, or casual, or stray plant, nor because it is found in the 

 United States of America. Have we no British and European 

 plants which are wild in A-merica? We have several. May not 

 Veronica peregrina be one of them ? If not a British plant, it 

 has been, for more than a century, received consensu omnium 

 as a European species. Because it has overleaped its ancient 

 bounds, it is to be banished to America, the locus poenitenticB 

 the stool of repentance of evil-doers during the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries." 



Our author continues his notice of this novelty by remarking 

 that he never saw " it growing with corn-crops but in gardens, in 

 potato and flax fields, etc., Avhich may militate against the Pro- 

 fessor's theory, that it was originally introduced with seed-corn 

 from the South of France. It is as plentiful in the habitats 

 specified at the beginning of this article as V. arvensis or V. 

 agrestis, . . . and on the whole I Consider it as well established 

 in these localities as any of our native Veronicas. It has been 

 stated that a late Irish nobleman purposely introduced it ; but 

 the evidence for this rumour is too vague and scanty to be trusted. 

 Whether foreign or not, European or American, this Veronica 

 is established in sufficient profusion to justify its permanent ad- 

 dition to our Flora. It has a better title to be entered among 

 the natives than some species, such as Buffonia tenuifolia, Swertia 

 perennis, Gentiana acauHs, Stlpa pennata, etc., which, on Smith, 

 Hooker and Arnott's authority, are neither native nor natura- 

 lized in Britain." 



" Centranthas ?'w6er.— This pretty, though almost indisputably 

 exotic plant grows not far from the village of Buxerand, on an 

 abutment of a wall, at no great distance from a garden. Hence 

 its origin in its present locality is not unaccountable. 



" In the same district we observed Crepis pahidosa, Apium 

 graveolens, Asplenium marinum, and some other plants of more 

 common occurrence." 



We would cheerfully commend this paper, which is a good 

 one, to the notice of our readers, but few of them can have the 

 pleasure of its perusal. 



" A Day on Ben Lomond " is the next botanical essay which 

 attracts our attention. We anticipate and deprecate all the unfa- 

 vourable strictures wliicli our Glasgow readers might feel dis- 

 posed to entertain about " the great cry and little wool " of this 



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