344 WANDSWORTH PLANTS. [November, 



One of the most common plants in the same place was Plantago 

 Lagopus; a less common one was P. arenaria, a plant which reaches 

 to the north of Germany. The former, P. Lagopus, does not ex- 

 tend quite so far north, but it is far more durable and plentiful 

 at Wandsworth than the other is. The former has disappeared, 

 the latter is always present, and, to all appearance, if the ground 

 was not certain to be diverted to other and more useful purposes, 

 this plant would probably reproduce itself ad infinitum. 



Asperugo procumbens has always been present (in the Wands- 

 worth station) , but only on the fresh and newly deposited mould. 

 It produces seed in abundance. Lithospermum arvense grew very 

 sparingly, cheek-by-jowl with its prickly neighbour. Is it also 

 an alien? 



Amaranthus retroflexus in these parts, i. e. Battersea, Chelsea, 

 and Wandsworth, is far more common than A. Blitum. I had 

 forgotten Hyoscyamus albus, " one of the plants erroneously re- 

 corded or subsequently extinct in Britain." I will not presume 

 to assert that it was not erroneously recorded, but I can affirm 

 that the Wandsworth Hyoscyamus is not H. niger. Also, it may 

 very safely be asserted, that three plants in this part of the ex- 

 cluded list, published under the direction of the Botanical Society 

 of London, are (were) neither " erroneously recorded nor sub- 

 sequently extinct in Britain," viz. Glauciwn phoeniceum, Vella 

 annua, and Stachys annua, or, if extinct now, they were seen very 

 lately, and they may be seen again ere long. Stachys annua 

 was unwittingly collected by a gentleman not long ago (1856?), 

 and not far from the place where it was seen by Mr. J. Woods 

 many years ago. The specimens are penes me, and may be seen. 

 The others were collected by myself, and the specimens are in 

 my possession.* 



The Chenopods of Wandsworth are unmanageable. The only 

 species determined were C. opulifolium, new to the British cata- 

 logue, and Blitum virgatum. 



The foreign species of Polygonace<B were abandoned as hopeless. 



It should be remarked that Chenopodium opulifolium was more 

 common at Battersea and Wandsworth than C. glaucum, which 

 occurred only at Battersea. But the latter is an unchallenged 

 native; the former has been neglected. 



* A specimen of Glaucium phceniceum was recently sent to the Tliirsk Bot. Soc, 

 and its discoverv near Brighton was published in the Phytologist for October, 1859. 



