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77. Po olygonum Persicaria L. Neat Camden Town, Pimlico, 
and in many other places near Lond Very common in Spain. 
78. Stellaria media Sm Gebephdes about London. Very 
frequent i in Spain. 
C nopodium rubrum L. Near Camden Town and Pimlico. 
Near Madrid in Spain. 
- Senebiera Coronopus DC. Near Hampstead, Camden 
Town, and other places about London. Very common in the 
vicinity of Madrid, 2a in all the provinces of Spain. 
G. Cuaripge Druce. 
Ir may be worth while to bring together the references to 
a Gasca’s stay in En eee nd thus to supplement t the brief 
e follow ing i m La Gasca’s translation in Hooker’s 
Horanteal Wisoolingy i “49-78) of the account by J. A. Schulthes 
of his visit to eae nd in 1824, published in Flora for 1825, 
«Whilst we were empl oyed in viewing Count Lambert's 
treasures, a little man dressed in black entered the apartment ; 
and he cast a pins | full of sorrow and indignation upon some 
packages which belonged to the herbarium of Ruiz 
is look attracted my attention, as did the general elevated 
physiognomy of this person. I could not si ay curiosity, 
and asked Mr. Don who this little man might en he 
replied, Senor Lagasca! I threw myself into ny sisi of my old 
friend, who was much serie to imagine who I could be, for we 
ad only r by c orespondene, which had con- 
tinued for some A bem: ; ind here we met, as in m, where we 
least expected to see one another. Poor Tagasea| he had not 
i of that > wl 
his talents and virtue had raised him: but his own life. Far from 
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