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garden plants to be 250 yards from a house! But in the text of 
English Botany, the words “200 or 300 yards from any house” 
are changed into “far from any house.” And in English Flora, 
the situation becomes simply “on a wet clay soil,” without mention 
of house or garden. Prof. Alphonse De Candolle deems the plant 
introduced to Britain; and, thus countenanced, I now act up to 
my own inclination by placing the Cyclamen among the Aliens, 
though before assigned to the doubtfully intermediate rank of 
Denizen in the Cybele Britannica, as a compromise with the ideas 
of some other English botanists. 
Lysimachia punctata, Linn. L. quadrifolium, E. B. 3. 
Provinces 1-11-15. Devon. Northumberland. Forfar. 
Alien. Cyb. il. 299. ii. 492. Eng. bot. vii, 147. Naturalised 
and abundant in Mr. Sewell’s grounds at Heaton Dene, near New- 
castle; John Storey! Glen Clova, Forfar; George Lawson! In 
English Botany, Dr. Boswell Syme reports that he has the 
American L. quadrifolia “under the name of L. punctata,” col- 
lected by Mr. Storey in the locality here quoted. But the 
examples in my own herbarium, sent by Mr. Storey himself, are 
certainly punctata; they are widely dissimilar from the quadrifolia 
of America, as described by Gray, and as shown by an example in 
the herbarium of the late Dr. Boott. Again, in his Manual, 1867, 
Professor Babington tells us that “ Dulverton, Devon, is the only 
station” for punctata; but without explaining what name he would 
give to the plants of Heaton Dene or Clova. Not having seen any 
specimen from Dulverton, I cannot confidently say that we mean 
the same plant by the same name of punctata? If not, what is 
the Devon plant ? 
Lysimachia ciliata, Linn. 
Provinces - - - - - - - 89--12--15 16. 
Alien. Cyb. ii, 298. iii. 491. ‘“ Hast bank of Leven Water 
about a mile from Dumbarton, growing rather plentifully amongst 
Carices and Junci with Carum verticillatum. This species, 
probably introduced by aquatic birds, deserves a place in our 
Floras”; John Ball, in Bot. Gaz. iii. 68. Mr. Ball’s locality is 
not the same place, I suppose, but must be in the same neighbour- 
hood as that explained in the following more guarded report by 
Mr. Galt ;—‘ Wood in which the Aconitum grows at Balmaha, 
about half a mile from the Quay, left hand side going towards 
Buchanan House. Although now a wood, there was a small 
cottage here some thirty or forty years ago; the plants doubtless 
the remains of its garden”; W. Galt in 1869. The two records 
will help on the history of L. ciliata, as before partly given in 
Cybele Britannica, vol. ii. pages 298-9. 
Anagallis (arvensis) cerulea, All. 
Provinces 1 to 15. Authority wanting for uo. 7. 
Syn. 890. Cyb. ii. 301. ili, 498. Two different plants seem to 
