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Switzerland ! Holland (Haussk.). Belgium ! France ! Spain ! 

 Portugal ! Corsica ! Sardinia {Hb. Keio) ! Italy ! Sicily ! 

 Istria ! Croatia (Haussk.). Dalmatia ! Turkey (Haussk.). 

 Greece ! Crete ! 



Csivia. (Haussk.). hyciaj (Haicssk.). Cilicia ! Syriaj (Haussk.). 



Egypt (Haussk.). Algeria ! Morocco (Haussk.). Canaries 

 (Haussk.). St. Helena (Haussk.). 



Peru (Haussk.). Paraguay (var. speciosa) ! Argentina (Hb. 

 Keiv, var. speciosa) ! Florida (var. speciosa) ! 



In Britain this species is not only a weed of cultivated fields, 

 but may often be found in hedge-banks, sometimes growing to a 

 large size, and on old walls. I have also collected it from shady 

 rocks, but only in the neighbourhood of cultivation, from which 

 it has probably spread. 



The prevailing form with us is the variety Babingtonii, but I 

 have seen specimens from Swanpool, near Falmouth, that perhaps 

 should be referred to the type, to which also it may be found that 

 other plants of the south coast belong. As may be expected, the 

 type alone, or possibly with the variety speciosa, is to be found in 

 the Channel Islands, while all the specimens I have seen from 

 Ireland are referable to the variety Babingtonii, which occurs 

 throughout Great Britain, though never, in my experience, in 

 such abundance as F. Borcei. In Topographical Botany and its 

 Supplement records are shown under F. capreolata for forty-three 

 vice-counties. Of these, I believe three to be erroneous, viz. 

 Surrey and Middlesex, which produce only forms of F. Borcsi, and 

 Selkirk, Mr. Brotherston's specimen being F. purpurea. To the 

 number remaining (forty), however, one may be added, viz. Moray, 

 making a total of forty-one, of which Cheshire, South Lanes, and 

 Eoxburgh, quoted in Topographical Botany without personal 

 authority, and North Wilts, East Kent, and Derby, in the Supple- 

 ment, must be considered doubtful. 



The vice-counties for which I have records (all for var. Babing- 

 tonii) are as follows : — 



1. W. Cormoall : Penzance (with sub-var. divaricata) ! ! Fal- 

 mouth ! ! Padstow, F. H. Davey, 1904 ! 3. S. Devon : Paign- 

 ton ! ! i. N. Devon : Lynmouth ! ! Ilfracombe ! ! Morthoe ! ! 

 5. S. Somerset: Minehead, A. Ley, 1906! Dunster ! ! 6. N. 

 Somerset: Near Cheddar (Hb. Mus. Brit.) I 10. Wight: Bon- 

 church, Borrer, 1848 (Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 14. E. Stissex : Pett 

 (Hb. C. E. Salmon) ! Guestling, Bev. Bloomfield ! 19. N. Essex : 

 Harwich (Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! Wivenhoe (Hb. Kew) ! 23. Oxford : 

 Iffley Road (Hb. Druce) ! 25. E. Suffolk : Felixstowe (Hb. 

 Hind) I 41. Glamorgan : Oxwich (Hb. Riddelsdell) ! 49. Car- 

 narvon : Llandudno, H. Fisher, 1884 ! Bodafon and Llangefar, 

 1799 (Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! Llanfairfechan ! ! 50. Denbigh : Moch- 

 dre, C. Waterfall, 1900 ! 60. W. Lanes : Aldcliffe (Hb. Druce) ! 

 66. Durham : Hartlepool (Hb. Druce) ! 95. Moray : Alves (Hb. 

 Brit. Linn. Soc.)\ 108. W. Sutherland: Loch Eriboll (Hb. 

 Watso7i) ! 111. Orkney : Mainland, E. S. Marshall, no. 2412 

 (ex parte) ! 



