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Sussex species is O. stricta, and that the specimens from 

 Mrs. Smith, mentioned in English Botany, were from 

 an old orchard at Cuckfield, in which he had seen 0. 

 stricta. 



244.* Oxalis stricta, vol. i. p. 272. 



Provinces (2, 3, 5, 9) may be added in the area of tliis 

 species, as an introduced, and to some extent naturalized 

 plant. That frequent fault of dabblers in botany, the 

 fault of suppressing circumstances which go towards 

 showing a species not native, and of exaggerating those 

 of an oijposite tendency, has been illustrated in reports 

 about the localities of this jplant. In the Phytologist, i. 

 p. 1144, we are told by " Wm. Curnow," that O. stricta 

 is found at "Larrigan, near Penzance." This is true, so 

 far as it goes, but a very important condition is not told 

 by the reporter. Mr. Borrer afterwards wrote thus ; " I 

 have seen it, conducted by Mr. Curnow, in the Larrigan 

 station, where it was growing in strawberry-beds in an old 

 orchard or garden." Mr, Pascoe intimates in Phytologist, 

 iii. p. 104, that it has been known for upwards of eighty 

 years as a weed of gardens in the vicinity of Penzance. 

 In the Phytologist, ui. p. 70, Mr. Joseph Sidebotham 

 wrote of this species, " In some gardens and potato-fields 

 near Didsbury it is quite a troublesome weed, and my late 

 friend E. J. Wilson found it equally common in the 

 neighbourhood of Congleton." This sentence was penned 

 in a sort of attack on the Compilers of the ' London 

 Catalogue of British Plants,' on the subject of their na- 

 turalized and excluded species, by the pseudo-botanist 

 mentioned, who perhaps little suspected the hazardous 

 location he had hit upon. It so happened that my own 

 botanical rambles and collectings commenced in and 

 about Congleton, the gardens and fields of which were 

 familiar to me during several years ; and during those 



