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and modified its characters. Originally, as a native species of dry 
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Mr 
ays: “ Naturally A. arvensis is an open soil desert-prairie species. 
In Britain it can only find the conditions it requires in cultivated 
such consorting species be 
Aberfrau Common, too, I have seen it in abundance, growing with 
A. tenella, Viola Curtisii, Centaurium species, Festuca rubra, 
___{* In Journ, Bot. 1891, 269-70, the Rev. R. P. Murray recorded Papaver 
dubium, Lychnis alba, Veronica arvensis, V. Buxbaumii, and Lamium amplezi- 
caule among the plants observed by him on the Steep Holm in that year,— 
Ep. Journ. Bor.] | : 9 
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