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for it also grows on our southern shores, and its status does not 
seem to have been previously called in question, though it is pre- 
dominantly a roadside and hedgerow plant. 
Aster sent Bernh. Is this known anywhere in Britain 
cept as a native of maritime mountain-limestone cliffs? In 
Eniciiaterleatck it accompanies Cotoneaster integerrimus, as is (or was) 
the case re Great Orme’s He 
Chrysanthemum Parthenium Pers. I had never seen og feverfew 
ea! eyes a than an evident alien until last year. In West 
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at a good distance from houses; and, although the probabilities 
point to its being merely a denizen here, I am not quite sure 
t it. 
Crepis fetida L. Gathered by Mr. Murray and myself abun- 
dasitly. 2 on the tien of Charente-Inférieure, West France, in 1884, 
I see no reason to distrust its wildness, either there or in Kent. 
eronicum Par 
shire. Neither reaches Scandinavia. I have occasionally met with 
the former in ee quite established, but under most suspicious 
circumstance 
Inula Pst L. “If, as seems possible, the seeds were 
introduced ind migratory waterfowl, the species may be regarded as 
ti ts ; : . 
to rank a re t found growing ide such he eT circumstances, 
Mr. Colgan in Fil. Dublin has treated some aquatics found in the 
Royal Canal as natives; others he queries as eau (probably 
ee from the central lakes 
Lactuca Scariola L. ‘It seems certain that it cannot be claim 
as a native of this country.” I have never collected this in Britain; 
but it has been so considered by competent observers, and some at 
least of its stations in Kent and Essex appear to be natural—e. g., 
Plumstead Marshes. 
Matricaria inodora L. The vars. salina Bab. and pheocephala 
Rupr. are beyond all mane indigenous on our coasts. 
pordon Acanthium L. Syme considered this truly wild in 
England, and I believe it to be so, at least on the south coast; 
d it is more uncertain. 
hus — L. In marsh-lands and on sea-shores this is 
surely open to no suspicion; so I cannot at all agree that ‘it is 
very doubtful wikthie tie type of this species has ever been found 
in natural habitats.” I suspect that S. asper and S. oleraceus are 
also native, but have not specially studied their distribution 
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bution Ca to England), Mr. Dunn admits this to our pe 
outh-west it is locally abundant; but I regard it as 
og ee doubtful native. 
Hyoscyamus niger L. meme indigenous in woods, &¢., 
on the chalk in Kent and Surre 
