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what has been accomphshed during the previous months. This 

 could not be consistently carried out, because of the amount of 

 previously unpublished matter of this kind which could not con- 

 veniently be prepared for publication until now. Henceforward, 

 a 7'esume of what has been done in the course of the year will 

 be practicable. 



It will be observed that many of the plants named in the list 

 have been already recorded as spontaneous productions of Eng- 

 land : most of them, indeed, have been published as aliens, or 

 as plants which have been introduced either in a recent or at a 

 remote period ; but there may be a few which have never been 

 suspected as aliens, though it be plain enough that in this place 

 they are as certainly importations as the hitherto unobserved 

 aliens, and perhaps, therefore, ought to be placed in the^same 

 category as the undoubted exotics, or at least regarded as plantce 

 suspect(js : Trifolium ochroleucum and Ly thrum hyssopifolium may 

 be given as examples. 



In the subsequent remarks on these species, their other English 

 localities will be stated, and also their places in the more general 

 Floras of Europe and the world. 



The Ranunculi collected at Wandsworth — and they were not 

 observed anywhere else — approach R. arvensis in habit ; the 

 latter, however, was not observed among them. R. hirsutus [R. 

 Philonotis) was by no means common. A form which, if it had 

 occurred anywhere else, would have been collected for R. parvi- 

 florus, appeared now and then. These all grew on the fresh or 

 lately deposited soil. As stated in the list, they are plants of the 

 south of Europe, and have never till now been reported as of 

 spontaneous English growth. 



Glaucium, phoeniceum has appeared in England so rarely, ex- 

 cept in collections, that its occurrence here has been, in recent 

 times, deemed a myth. It has been classed with Gentiana acau- 

 lis, Swertia perennis, Echinophora, and Vella annua. It ap- 

 peared for above one season at Wandsworth, but the reporter 

 would not undertake to affirm that its subsequent appearances 

 were connected with its first. It may perfect seeds here, but it 

 is not certain that it reproduced itself in England. Many of 

 these plants ought probably to be placed in this category, viz. 

 among such as were reproduced by fresh importations of seed 

 rather than by seeds which the plants produced in this country. 



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