360 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
- Asia Minor was invaded by our at the forest species was 
say pansy in its present iii but that its cornfield descendant 
was n had arrived and had tilled the 
aaa "it wadsally gan ‘ato the fields, undergoing certain 
internal = external changes in accommodating itself to its new 
life. ith 
As it spread w man far from its original home, these 
oan “became cic hadined and fixed, and eventually the new 
e bec so different that, when its parent species was found 
fas atten: it had itself been described and sag it could not be 
recognized as the same species as our common wee 
There are now left to be accounted for two seen which seem 
to have only a slight foothold in England. Lamiwm bifidum has 
once been found growing plentifully in a cornfield in Yorks. It is 
a native of woods in south-eastern Europe, and is also mae in 
cornfields in some of the districts from which we import co 
the present case it was doubtless sown with seed corn Aatcad ‘from 
the Hast, and in the absence of further records may be supposed to 
have oe since disappeared. Lamium i ay though not un- 
commo: not really op ST s with us, but, being a common 
cottage Seton plant and a perennial, it often survives for many 
years where a root happens to be thrown out. It is a curious fact 
that, although the most obviously non-indigenous of all our in- 
troduced Deaduettles, yet its native range approaches our islands 
more bees than any of them, for its area icicnds from Persia 
elg 
The ¢ chief facts bearing on the origin of the English Deadnettles 
have now been discussed, and seem to point to the conclusion that 
one was ae didied by horticulture, one with foreign seed, that five 
accompanied the Scouts of the country by man, and that one 
only is undoubtedly indigenous. 
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1901. 
By Grorce Murray, F.RB.S. 
Tue additions to the collections by presentation have consisted 
of :—158 specimens, mostly from near Cape St. Antonio, Buenos 
Ayres, from Ernest Gibson; 70 specimens, including 23 Ferns, 
83 specimens of woods, and 8 fruits, from H. N. Ridley ; 168 
Phanerogams and 11 Cryptogams from Siberia, from W 
Shockley; 36 specimens from Greylingstadt, Transvaal, from 
apt. Yow: 17 specimens, Beneabelly ig eg goes Arthur 
Bennett; 80 specimens from near Kalgan, Eastern Mongolia, 
rom ampbell; 9 eee of African and American 
Eriocaulon, from Prof, Engler; 2 specimens of Palm fruits, from 
Kitue, East Africa, from Dr. S. L. Hinde; 180 plants, including 
3 Cryptogams, from Van, from Major F’. R. Maunsell; 100 speci- 
mens from Jamaica, from W. Faweett; 162 Phanerogams and 
