366 ADDITIONAL SPECIES, ETC. 



by the Rev. N. NichoUs, " in the ruins of an old castle 

 near Netley Abbey, far from any house, and apjjarently 

 wild " ; but that the plant found in the Isle of Wight, by 

 Mr. Griffith, was most probably P. angustifolia. The 

 sentence above quoted may serve as an illustration of the 

 loose and almost quibbling manner in which such expres- 

 sions as "far from any house" and " apparently wild " 

 are sometimes used and applied by would-be-discoverers 

 of wild plants. In this instance, the word " ruins " may 

 suffice to balance and correct the other portion of the 

 sentence ; but in many other similar instances the mis- 

 leading words only are used without any such qualifica- 

 tion, direct or indirect. 



868. PuLMONARiA OFFICINALIS, Linn. 



Area (1 3 3 * 5 6 * 8 * 10 * 13 13 14 15). 



Alien. Notwithstanding the decided opinion of Dr. 

 Bromfield (afterwards indeed more doubtfully expressed 

 in the Phytologist iii. 577) it would seem better to consi- 

 der P. officinalis and P. angustifolia separate species ; the 

 latter being indigenous in the Isle of Wight and mainland 

 Hants, and only incorrectly reported from other counties. 

 P. officinalis, as thus separated, and the plant so fre- 

 quent in cottage gardens, has doubtless been found in 

 many counties, more or less naturalised ; but it has not 

 been shown to be truly indigenous in any part of Eng- 

 land. (See vol. ii. page 385.) 



