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never been questioned. In the garden Leucojium aestivum can only maintain 

 itself in the cultivated border ; in our experience if planted in the grass it 

 dies. Several people have told us that they have lost the plant in this way ; 

 so that we think it is much more likely that the Snowflake, like Saxifruga 

 nmh-osa, the Foxglove, the Welsh Poppy, and many other beautiful-ilowered 

 plants, has been brought from its native haunts into the garden than that 

 it has escaped and become established in so many widely separated localities. 

 Its congener, L. pulchclhim, seems to have been more widely distributed in 

 cultivation ; yet, so far as we can find, it seems never to have escaped or to 

 have naturalized itself. We, therefore, see no reason for looking on Leucojum 

 aestivum as an alien in England and Ireland, which, though now separated, 

 ■were at one time a western continuation of the Continent. 



In conclusion, we would like to thank all those who so kindly supplied us 

 with fresh specimens, both from gardens and from wild situations ; Mr. E. D. 

 O'Brien and Mr. Praeger for many helpful suggestions; and Dr. George 

 Fogerty for the excellent photographs of the plant which illustrate the 

 paper. 



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