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‘evidently increasing quite rapidly.”” A specimen oie by 
Miss G. H. Learned at New London, nang sepia n 1892, i 
marked ‘ well established. ” These notes of Dr. st st Mn, 
records of the plant in his New Jersey catalogue, indicate their 
vale that the plant is introduced. 
e other hand, there is a rather general idea that the plant 
is ‘ewig ae on our coast. In the Synoptical Flora and in the last 
edition of Gray's Manual this is suggested, though with some doubt; 
in various local floras the plant is treated in the same non- committal 
way; and in the Illustrated Flora, though its introduction into 
eastern pees may be inferred, no definite statement to that 
A. annua, etc. hus, as treated in standard works, the exact 
status of the species in our flora is not clearly defined. 
It is a sicgiicank fact that this very conspicuous plant was not 
seen upon the New England coast until 1877, and that from that 
date until the present time it has appeared in ever-increasing 
d 
examined province of Sweden from the botanist’s point of vie 
in 1891 it was ge on ~ sandy coast at North Bull, Deans 
Dublin, Treland; in 1892, on the coast of Zealand, Denm ark ; 
and in 1895 on the sands peters: Penzance and Marazion, in 
ornwa 
In the Journal of Botany for 1894, and previously in a Swedish 
journal, Bvtaniska Notiser, Professor Areschoug discussed* at length 
the occurrence os this Kamtschatkan plant in ‘Europe and ae 
favouring the view that it has long been a member of our flora, 
until recently vedo because of its ee ae sands 
which are rarely visited. He further argued ps3 the plant must 
have spread laterally from northern Asia to Europe and America 
immediately after the Se Period, before the return northward 
of the flora which now characterizes so much of Europe and 
America, and that alihoagk not yet known us it will be found 
in many sandy river-valleys of North Ameri 
Replying to Professor Areschoug’s most Taian and ingenious 
originated from waste ee thrown upon the Oe from a 
* Botaniska ee 1880, 137, and 1893, 111; Journ, Bot. xxxii. 70, 
+ Journ, Bot. 1 
