LEOPAKD'S-BANE. 



Doronicum Pardalianches. Nat. Ord., 

 Composites. 



IKE the ivy-leaved toadflax and 

 many other species that could be 

 named, the present plant is not 

 a true native of England, but it 

 has so far thriven in its new 

 home as to have thoroiighly 

 established itself a place in our 

 flora. The leopardVbane is a 

 plant of the forests and mountain 

 pastures of central Europe, but it 

 has long been cultivated as an 

 adornment of the cottage garden, 

 and as a valuable medicinal plant 

 in the herb garden of the mediaeval 

 herbalists. From thence it has 

 spread as an outcast or by means 

 of its seeds, and may now be met 

 with sparingly in many districts 

 m England and the south of Scotland, growing often in 

 wild and craggy spots, where there can be no doubt of 

 its wild and self-sown nature. 



The leopard's-bane may clai*n,too, a certain literary interest, 

 as its occurrence in the gardens of the curious and the herb 

 plots of the faculty made it sufficiently well-known to cause 

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