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. Solanum nigrum L. Truly wild, I believe, on many parts of the 
coast, though only a weed elsewhere. 
Veronica arvensis L. ‘Native of the Mediterranean area, and 
exceedingly common in some parts of that region. undant in 
Britain as a weed of cultivated and waste places.’ This no 
means meets the case. The plant is extremely plentiful on coast 
sands and grassy cliffs from Cornwall and Kent to Caithness, as 
well as on sandy commons, &c. Bellis perennis is not more certainly 
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Ajuga Chamepitys Schreb. ‘It is nowhere known under natural 
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conditions.” In the chalk districts of Kent it sometimes grows on 
Mentha sylvestris L. ‘ Always suspected as a relic of cultivation 
in England.”” To this I must emphatically demur; in K 
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consider its claims to rank as such much stronger than those of 
M. alopecuroides and M. piperita—both accepted by Mr. Dunn— 
though he may be right as to these. 
Atriplex patula L. Not confined as a native to our coasts; it is 
equally so by slow streams in Surrey. 
Chenopodium album L. ‘* Has not been recorded, as far as the 
writer can trace, in any country in natural habitats.’”’ The Thames 
marshes below Woolwich seem to be such; and I believe it to be 
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‘sables, bords des riviéres,”’ which seems go 
Pneumonanthe, Plantago ‘major Var. intermedia, &e. On the strength 
of this I submit that it may reasonably rank as a native of Encland. 
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aboriginal on shingly beaches in Kent and Norfolk. 
iy Rumex pulcher L. Native on the south coast and near the tidal 
ietaria officinalis L. This does not deserve to be classed 
among introductions. It is, as Mr. Riddelsdell has pointed out, 
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opulus alba nig bel: that no careful observer 
eee incl de these as likely natives; they do not seem, indeed, to 
