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the Com,panion to the Botanical Magazine, i. 296, as quoted in N. B. G,, 

 661) ; and Mr. G. S. Gibson also records it from tlie same neiglibourliood, 

 " on the coast, plentifully, and apparently wild." Phyt. ii. 376, O.S. The 

 plant has been found in North Wales, " in a farm-yard close to the corn- 

 stacks, at Trefrew, it was however, apparently well established." A. Irvine, 

 in Phyt. i. 57, N. S. This species is known in gardens by the names of 

 Painted Lady" and " Pencilled Geranium." A native of Italy. 



Impatiens parviflora, DC. This species, introduced within the last 

 few years, has spread with great rapidity over the country, and is recorded 

 from many localities. Its head-quarters are in the neighbourhood of London, 

 where, especially in Surrey, it is very abundant : in this county it has 

 occurred "near Nine Elms; abounds also on the Mortlake side of Kew Green. 

 It appeared pretty well established about Batterse<i, but the works necessary 

 for the Crystal Palace and West End Pail way have probably exterminated it. 

 It appeared also by the riverside near Kew ; " Phyt. Hi. 335, 339. N.S. ; in 

 the neighbourhood of the latter locality I collected it in 1864. The plant 

 is also recorded from "Wandsworth and Wimbledon" K B., ed. 3., ii. 218^); 

 in H. B. P. 753, it is stated to be " naturalised about Mortlake," and Mr. 

 Trimen, in Journal of Botany, ii. 94, observes " I gathered /. parviflora on 

 a bank at Mickleham in 1861." In Middlesex, I observed it in 1858-61 in 

 some plenty in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital, where it was well estab- 

 lished, but subsequently destroyed in the alterations ; I have also seen it in 

 an old garden at Brompton ; and Mr. J. C. Melvill writes, that it is " a very 

 frequent weed about Kensington, sometimes covering every flower-bed in a 

 garden." In Essex, /, parviflora is recorded by Mr. G. S. Gibson from 

 " Stanstead and Eyfield" ( Flora of Essex, 65. J ; and it is abundant and 

 well established in the garden of Church End Farm, Runwell, where it cer- 

 tainly was not introduced for ornamental purposes. In Cambridgeshire, this 

 plant occurs in several places : " plentiful in a lane leading to the fen at 

 Sawston, in 1856 ; in the vQlage of Duxford, Mev. W. W. Neivhoiild : by 

 the road to Chesterton, Mr. W. Walton, M.A.," Flora of Cambridge- 

 shire, 49. It escaped from Mr. Borrer's garden at Henfield, Sussex, and 

 thoroughly established itself upon a turfy bank and in two adjacent timber 

 yards, filling up the interstices between the timber." See Phyt. iv. 142, N.S. 

 In the Isle of Wightj this plant was observed by Mr. Irvine " near Pyde, in 

 1857 ; " Phyt. Hi. 340, N. : here it is said to be " partially naturalised" 

 



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