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NATIVE AND NATURALIZED BRITISH SPECIES. 



[June, 



Axtemisia Abrotanum. 

 Artemisia vulgaris. 

 Tussilago Petasites. 

 Solidago Yirga-aiu'ea. 

 IniJa Heleniuia. 



Viola hirta. 

 Viola palustris. 

 Viola odorata. 

 Viola tricolor. 

 Equisetum arvense. 



Equisetum hyemale. 

 Pteris aquilina. 

 Asplenium Trichomanes. 

 Lycopodium clavatum. 

 Cannabis sativa. 



The following genera are common to Britain and Japan, but 

 they include no British species, viz. : — 



A few Remarks on Native and Naturalized British Species. 

 By a Correspondent. 



The popular opinion that all domestic animals and cultivated 

 plants were originally reclaimed from the wild or natural state is 

 neither founded on fact, nor even feasible as a theory. ' Natural' 

 and Svild' are not always synonymous terms; a production may 

 be natural which is not wild. A few examples there have been, 

 and are still, of domestic animals escaping from their state of 

 domesticity, as plants cultivated extensively often escape, and 

 sometimes establish themselves independently of man; but 

 surely it is unphilosophical to infer from these few isolated and 

 casual accidents that the races of animals and genera and species 

 of such plants were originally wild. Domesticated animals exist 

 only in a domesticated state, i. e. are dependent on man, and 



