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Hants by the Rev. W. W. Spicer, who gives me also the 

 following particulars of the station : — " From 70 to 100 

 l^lants, in a neglected meadow, on the skirts of a large 

 wood, about a mile and a half north of the Rectory of 

 Itclien Abbas. I have no doubt of its spontaneity, though 

 I cannot find it anywhere else in the neighbourhood." 

 (Letter of December 13, 1850). In reference to this 

 station, Dr. Bromfield remarks that " the plant has a per- 

 fectly wild api^earance " ; but that " until found in other 

 places in the neighboiu-hood it is better to attach the 

 symbol (t) of doubt to it." I beg my readers to contrast 

 the caution here shown by the late estimable botanist 

 named, against the readiness evinced by the same botanist 

 to admit Salvia pratensis as a native of the Isle of Wight, 

 enlarged upon at page 476. To my apprehension, the 

 evidence here adduced for Stachys germanica far out- 

 weighs that before adduced for Salvia pratensis. Yet Dr. 

 Bromfield would seem to hold it equally good for either or 

 both. I consider him rightly and philosophically cautious 

 in the present instance ; but of course far from being so 

 in the other case. 



840. Stachys arvensis, vol. ii. p. 264. 



Province 18 may be added in the area, and the north 

 limit may be extended to Orkney, on authority of Miss 

 Boswell and Mr. Anderson, both of whom found this 

 species in Orkney, as I learn from Mr. Syme. But there 

 can be little doubt that it has been introduced to those 

 isles by human agency, with seed-corn or otherwise, and 

 is thus to be regarded only as a colonist there at best. 



842. Nepeta Cataria, vol. ii. p, 265. 



Two stations for this plant are mentioned m Dickin- 

 son's Flora of Liverpool ; but neither of them, it appears, 

 had been seen by the Author of the Flora, and the desira- 

 bility of verification is suggested by him. Still, there 



