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in each case was probably a mere casual, and soon died out :— 
Thames side near Wandsworth and Battersea, Surrey, undoubtedl 
introduced (Brewer, Fl. Surrey, 315) ; Cardiff, Glamorganshire, 
‘Hast Moors” (Storrie, Fl. Cardiff, 24); and Silloth, Cumberland 
stations may perhaps fall into this latter class also. 
the field had many years back been in cultivation, but so long ago 
that now it is almost similar in aspect to many of the untouched 
portions of the downs; and the following plants were noted growing 
there :—Viola hirta, Fragaria vesca, Hypericum perforatum, Geranium 
columbinum, Pastinaca sativa, Sherardia, Inula Conyza, enecio 
Jacobea, Erythrea Centaurium, Echium vulgare, Anagallis arvensis 
and carulea, Linaria Elatine and viscida, Origanwn, Calamintha 
Clinopodium and Acinos, and Ajuga chamepitys. The spot is far 
Wickham and Failand records, although one looks in vain for the 
t is very nearly an exact reproduction, as far as my memory 
serves, of the spot in which A. hirsuta grows at Cobham, and it 
ten years ago my brother and I came across this solitary example, 
but it rarely flowers, and has the appearance of gradual death from 
old age. : 
Mr. §. T. Dunn has very kindly furnished me with his notes 
upon A. hirsuta, collected for a work upon British alien plants now 
in preparation. ays :—‘ Though a conspicuous plant, 4. hirsuta 
was not recorded in Britain until 1792, and this causes it to be 
when it is seen that so many of its British records are directly con- 
i is at once suggests the 
i en sa ggests t 
origin of the Somerset station, and, indeed, all scattered localities 
