4 NOTES— BOTANY. 
there are annual plants which, springing up late in the year, or 
otherwise hindered from flowering, may, as pee, assume a biennial 
character. 
The greater number of biennials also are plants of waste, stony, 
r very dr coating as Glaucium, Draba, Arabis, Cheiranthus, 
Brassica oleracea, Reseda, Hyoscyamus, Solanum nigrum, Digitalis, 
Ahem Fokion, Cynoglossum, and others; but there are many 
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which seem to be able to hold their own pretty well among the 
ihe ag Some of the umbellifers do this, as Cherophyllum 
temulum, Heracleum, and Anthriscus sylvestris. thistles too, 
and notably the burdock, are not easily crushed out. These, how- 
ever, cover so much ground with their crown of leaves, that when 
they die away they leave a bare spot, which their seedlings often 
seize upon. It is noticeable that many biennials have this habit: 
it is an advantage which annuals, being usually smaller, do not 
possess. 
It seems probable that if our country were to become unin- 
habited, a great change would soon take place in our flora. The 
cornfield weeds would at once be extinguished, for the perennial 
plants would not delay to take possession of these choice lands ; the 
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walls and ruins would be left to the rock plants, and some of the 
wayside annuals might still obtain a share of the roads and stony 
tracks, but they would no longer flourish in their present profusion. 
Indeed, there can be no doubt that a large proportion of our 
monocarpic plants would disappear entirely, while a still greater 
number would be driven into the inhospitable situations which 
are their natural home. 
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Anthemis nobilis L rth Lancashire.—Mr. William Duckworth 
writes to me that in July spa or 5% he found paved nobilis on the r oadside 
r Kirkhead, a hea near Kent’s Bank. <A so ce 
is, of ee Lead adventive, iat in this Mr. Dekeont agrees. Anyway, in 
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1893. No stress therefore must be put on the record. Has any lucky botanist 
found Anthemis i the Cartmel area? If so, will he kindly come to our aid ?— 
on, November 14th, 18096. 
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ef tao Pea conclusively, to my mind, that it is no 
garden escape, or of 
recent introductio t grows naturally in these gore I say this because 
I see, i ta — works, it is thought wild. Whether it is 
a distinct form, or only a variety of A. arvensis—w' ear from my friend, 
pee pith " ; Fowler, of Bac hine wings gs Hooker and others consider it to 
c.— BuRTON 1d, bo 
Nov. 27th, 1 1896. , Highfield, Gainsborough, 
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Naturalist, 
