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would have replied, " They all sprang up from seeds separated 

 from the corn/^ By scientific men and great observers, these 

 plants have been gravely said to have originated in some ancient 

 garden^ or were conveyed from a distance by currents, etc. That 

 the seeds of plants are conveyed by winds and currents, in the 

 stomachs and on the coats or skins of animals, is not denied. 

 It is only affirmed that there is no necessity for assuming that 

 the following plants were transported to their present locality by 

 such or similar modes of conveyance. They did not arrive in 

 ballast, like the famous plants which appeared at Sunderland 

 half a century ago. They did not migrate from the regal and 

 medicinal establishments of Kew and Chelsea, for the gardeners 

 of these places ignored them. They knew some of them, but 

 few or any of the identical species were then, or at any previous 

 time, remembered to have existed in their collections. 



Note. In the following list, the names of the hitherto unob- 

 served exotics are in italics ; those of previously recorded species 

 are in roman. 



Ranunculacea. — Ranunculus Philonotus (R. hirsutus. Curt.), R. 

 muricatus ?, R. trilobus, Delphinium Consolida, Nigella sativa : 

 these are south European plants ; R. Philonotis and R. muri- 

 catus reach on the Continent a latitude nearly equal to that x)f 

 England. 



Papaveracece. — Papaver Rhceas, P. Argemone, Glaucium phoe- 

 nicium, Roemeria hybrida, Hypecoum procumbens : the two latter- 

 named are almost exclusively south Europeans. 



Fmnaria agraria, etc. 



Reseda gracilis : a native of Naples, Dalmatia, and Austria. 



CrucifercB. — Malcolmia maritima, M. littorea ?, M. africana, 

 Arabis arenosa ?, Erysimum orientale. Sisymbrium austriacum, 

 S. orientale (S. Columnfe), Jacq. ; S. pannonicmn, Sinapis alba, 

 S. dissecta, S. monensis?, S. Cheiranthus, S. nigra, S. incana, 

 S. hispida, Brassica arvensis ?, Linn. ; Moricandia arvensis, DC. ; 

 Eruca sativa, Diplotaxis erucoides, D. tenuifolia, D. muralis, D. 

 bracteata, Koeniga maritima, Camelina sativa, Neslia panicidata, 

 Vella annua, Thlaspi arvense, Lepidium Draba, L. ruderale, L. 

 graminifol., Linn. (L. Iberis, Poll.), Raphanus Landra, Erucas- 

 trum obtusangulum, Rapistrum rugosum, All., R. perenne, Enar- 

 throcarpus lyratus, DC. 



Malvaceae. — Malva ambigua, M. parviflora, M. microcarpa ?, 



