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the "Scotchman" (Cnicus lanceolatus). "Chili grass" (Sporobolus 

 indicus) recalls the period of considerable trade with South America, 

 " Californian stinkweed " (Gillia squarrosa), commerce with the United 

 States, "Indian daub" or Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), transfer- 

 ence perhaps of troops from that great dependency, " Canadian thistle " 

 (Cnicus arvensis) and "Canadian groundsel" (Erigeron Canadensis), 

 exchange of goods with Canada ; lastly, record of early connection with 

 South Africa, with the Cape of Good Hope, is preserved by such plant- 

 names as "Capeweed" (Crepis taraxacifolia), "Cape gooseberry" (Phy- 

 salis peruviana), and " Cape barley," not improbably from its hardihood, 

 the old Scottish bere (Hordeum sp.). 



Had the vast change sketched in preceding chapters been fulfilled 

 according to the inclination of man, only grasses and fodder-plants for 

 his domesticated beasts, shrubs, flowers, fruit for his taste, and forest- 

 trees for the pride of his heart, would have been acclimatised Tutira 

 would have been as the Garden of Eden, nourishing nothing but what 

 was good for food and pleasant to the eye. Such an ideal condition 

 is impossible to maintain ; the pioneers of every colony set in motion 

 machinery beyond their ultimate control ; no legislation can regulate the 

 dissemination of seeds. As the sun shines and the rain falls alike on 

 the just and the unjust, so fleets, railroads, and highways convey seeds 

 good and bad to a like common destination. 



