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BALSAMINACEJE. 



IMPATIENS, Linn. 



I. Noli-me-tangere, L. Cyb. Br. i. 268 ; iii. 402 ; Comp. 13.5. SymeE. B. 



ii. t. 313. I. Several places near Pinner Marsh, £^i««^. A garden 

 escape. 



1%5. *1. fulva, Nutt. 



' I. Noli-me-tangere' (Lond. FL). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 268. Syme E. B. ii. t. 314. 



Sides of streams and ditches ; ratlier rare. A. July — September. 

 I. Side of Grand Junction Canal, Harefield. 



II. Thames near Hampton Court, T. Kalph; Lond. FL 171. Bet. Sun- 



bury and Hampton ! ; Bushey Park ! ; Newb. Thames side by 



Hampton Court Palace. 



III. Near Isleworth on road to Twickenham ; sides of some ponds near 



the mills, Hounslow, A. Williamson ; Pkyt. i. 814. Twickenham, 



by sides of ditches connected with the Thames, at Orleans Hoube, 



and bet. Marble Hill and Kichmond Bridge ; and on waste ground 



near the church. Ditch behind Kneller Park. Ditches about 



Whitton Dean. Sides of the Cran from Baber Bridge downwards, 



and in the ditches connected with it. Duke's Eiver, near Worton. 



V. Near Kew Bridge ; Jewitt. 



Vn. [Sparingly by a ditch near the Vale of Health pond, Hampstead, before 



1866; MelvilL] 



First record: Ealph, 1838. An American species, so thoroughly and 



perfectly naturalised as to give no suspicion of its exotic origin. It 



almost certainly originated from the gardens of Albury Park, Surrey ; 



a small stream, the Tillingbourne, flows through these gardens and 



runs into the Wey above Guildford, and this in turn flows into the 



Thames a little above Shepperton. In this way the seeds have been 



carried by the water-current and by barges, &c., throughout the 



Thames valley district. The first notice we have met with of it is in 



Phi/t. i. 40, where Mr. John Stuart MiU states that he saw it near 



Albury in 1822. It was first figured in England in Brit. Ent. vol. 



xvi. t. 747 (1839) from a Surrey specimen. (It is stated in Phyt. 



N. 8. i. 166, that 'a Balsam twice as tall as L.fidva grows on the Colne 



bet. Harefield and Denham.' Of this we can learn nothing.) 



146. * I. parviflora, DC. 



Syme E. B. ii. t. 315. 



Waste ground and a garden weed ; rare. A. June — September. 



II. On ground laid out for building at Fiilwell, bet. Strawberry Hill and 

 the Hanworth road ; in abundance, especially on the tops of the 

 stacks of bricks, which must have remained undisturbed for some 

 years. 



