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Cultivated and waste ground ; rare. A. July — September. 

 II. In a field near Strawberry Hill, plentiful. In some quantity in a 

 newly-enclosed garden by Teddington Ey. Station. Cornfield, 

 Tangley Park, a single plant. 

 III. Potato field near Twickenham Ry. Station, one plant. 

 VII. [Marylebone Infirmary garden ; Varenne.'\ Waste ground near 

 Chelsea CoUege, 1861, Britten; Phyt. N. 8. V\. 349. 



First record: Varenne, 1827-30. Partial to dry sandy soils. 



LINARIA, Mill. 



476. * X. Cymbalaria, Mill. Ivy-leaved Toad-fiax. Boving Jenny. 

 L. hederaceo Jul. glabra, sen Cymbalaria vulgaris, E. H. Inst. (Dill.). 



Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, L. (Curt., Smith, &c.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 217. Curt. P. L. f. 1 (drawn from a Middlesex specimen). 



Walls ; common. A. June — September. 

 I. Eastcott ; Melv. 57. Pinner. 

 II. On the water gallery at Hampton Court!, 1829; Winch. MSS. 

 Sunbury. 



III. Abundant about Isleworth, Twickenham, &e. 



IV. Mill Hill, 1837, Mr. Children ; Herb. 3Ius. Brit. Hampstead ; Irv. 



MSS. Sudbury, W. M. H. ; Melv. 57. Tombs in Stanmore Church- 

 yard. Near Whetstone. 

 V. Ealing; Lo7ui. Fl. Ul. About Brentford. 

 VI. Highgate, Rev. S. Palmer ; Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 266. Upper Edmonton, 



abundant. Bet. Enfield and Winchmore Hill Wood ; Church. 

 Vll. Abundantly on the walls of Chelsea Garden, and in neighbouring 

 places; B. SynAii. *2f>2. Frequent^ about London; Httds. i. 271. 

 Walls of the Thames ; Mart. App. P. C. 65. [On the Temple wall ; f 

 Curt. F. L.] [Sommerset House, 1802;] about Chelsea, 1809; 

 Winch. MSS. On Battersea Bridge, Sowerby ; Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Blackwall, 1836 ; Herb. Young. Kentish Town, 1841 ; Herb. Hardw. 

 Ken Wood. Haverstock Hill. Eel-brook Meadow. 



First record: Dillcnius, 1724; also first as a British plant. | Dillenius 

 (Joe. cit.) considered that Chelsea Gardens was the point from which 

 this plant, a native of South Europe, originated in England, or at all 

 events about London ; and in this notion he was followed by Thos. 

 Martyn, Curtis, and Smith. Dr. Bromfield, in Phyt. iii. 621, combats 

 this view, holding L. Cymbalaria to have been known ' from an inde- 

 finitely remote period ' in England, but to have been a comparative 

 rarity till the general diffusion of a taste for gardening. He calls 



t Ciirtis says, ' In all those parts near London that lay within reach of the Thames ; 

 seeds are cari-ied by the flu.x: and reflux of the tide up and do^vn the river, and left at high- 

 water mark in the crevices of old walls, where they take root and increase very fast.' 



t Dr. nichardson was perhaps really the earliest observer ; ' Everywhere in quarries at 

 Darford, Yorkshire ' ; R. Si/n. iii. *282. 



