338 WAiNDs WORTH PLANTS. [November, 



Some of them unquestionably ripened seeds. Examples were 

 removed to my garden at Chelsea, and are still flourishing and 

 in great abundance, quite as common weeds as Groundsel and 

 Chick weed. This Glaucium has been reported from the southern 

 shores of the English coast, and Roemeria hybrida from Swaffham, 

 in Suffolk : the latter probably grows there still ; it appeared 

 several seasons at Wandsworth, but never in great force, and 

 always as poor, tiny specimens. 



Hypecoum procumbens is confined to the south of Europe, as 

 Spain, Naples, Peleponnesus, etc. Fimiaria agraria, Lag., has 

 been reported from other parts of England, but doubtfully. 



The Cruciferce are numerous, as may be seen by the list. Mal- 

 colmia maritima is, about Chelsea, one of the commonest^ gar- 

 den annuals; yet it was a very scarce plant as an escape. M. 

 africana and M. litioralis, M. littorea, Br., were exceedingly 

 common about Wandsworth, appearing every year in great force. 

 Neither of these are cultivated, — a proof that cultivation has not 

 been the origin of all our new acquisitions. The former is almost 

 exclusively a south European plant; the latter reaches to the 

 north of France on the west. 



Arabis arenosa ? has every season been very common in' the 

 Wandsworth station. This plant abounds in Belgium (see 

 ' Phy tologist ' for June, 1859); also in Normandy. Erysimum 

 orientate, Br., E. perfoliatum, Crantz, Sisymbrium austriacum, 

 Jacq., S. orientate, Linn. [S. Cotumnce, Jacq.), S. pannonicum, 

 Jacq., have been exceedingly common, and self-propagated. They 

 grew not only on the fresh soil, but on the hard-trodden ground 

 with S. officinate. That these were propagated by seeds which 

 they produced in this locality there can be little question, for 

 some of their remains are growing now in my garden. 



The Sinapides were confined to the fresh soil. S. dissecta, 

 Lag., was more abundant at Battersea, one season, than at 

 Wandsworth. It is a plant of the south of France, and also 

 grows in Spain, Naples, Sardinia, etc. -S. Cheiranthus appeared 

 one year on the Chelsea Hospital grounds. There were in this 

 case good reasons for inferring that its seeds came originally 

 from South Wales with coals. Its appearance at Wandsworth 

 is not to be attributed to this cause. 



Erucastrum obtusangutwn, Eruca sativa, Diptotaxis erucoides, 

 etc., were seen only on the fresh mould. D. muratis grew on the 



