Derbysh. Wingerworth, Glopwell, ami S. Normanton: Mr. Coke. On an old 
wall at Pleasly, between Chesterfield and Mansfield: Rev. VV. Wood. — 
Devon; On walls in and about Kxetei : Mr. .Iacob. Walls of the vicarage and 
churchyard at Widdecombe-in-the-Moor : FI. Devon.— Dorsetsh. Frequent on 
old garden walls: Dr. Pui.te ne v.— Essex ; On an old wall at Stubbers: Mr. 
E. FotiSTf-n, jun. Westham: Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. — Gloucestersh. On 
walls about Clifton : M r. Dveh. — Lincolnsh. On the walls of Burleigh Castle 
near Stamford: Mr. Woodward. — Middlesex; About Chelsea, and other 
places, frequent, especially adjoining the lhames; the walls of the Physic 
Garden, Chelsea, are covered with it : Mr. Conns. Walls at Ilighgate: Rev. 
S. Palmer, in Loud. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. ii. p. 266. — Shropsh. On a wall at 
Oldport near Oswestry : Dr. Evans, and Mr. H. Barrett. — Somersetsh. At 
Brislington, and about Redland Court near Bristol: Dr. Withering. Com- 
mon on old walls at Bath: Rev. C. C. Babington. — Surrey; On walls at 
Vauxhall, Battersea, and other places by the Thames side: Mr. Hudson. 
Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth, &c.: Mr. W. Pampltn, jun. About Eg- 
ham : Mr. W. A. Delamotte. — Sussex; At Chichester: Mr. Bnnrion. — 
XVarwicksh. On St. Mary’s churchyard wall, and on a wall in Mellox’ Lane, 
Warwick: Mr. W. G. Perry. On the garden walls at Rilton Ilall, near 
Rugby ; July 12, 1831 : \V. B. — Wilts; Near Great Bedwyn: Mr. W. Bart- 
lett. — Worcestersh. On the Abbey wal I at Great Malvern: Mr. Porton. — 
Yorksh. Walls at Coxwold, Newburgh, and Londsborough : Rev. Aiu u deacon 
Pierson. On old walls at Pontefract : Mr. Brunton. — Found occasionally in 
WALES, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. 
Perennial. — Flowers from April to December. 
Root fibrous. Stems numerous, tufted, thread-shaped, very much 
branched, trailing, or pendulous, round, smooth, leafy, often pur- 
plish. Leaves on long footstalks, alternate and opposite, somewhat 
resembling those of Ivy ; 5-lobed, sometimes only 3-lobed ; lobes of 
the upper pointed, of the lower blunt, rather fleshy, of a bright shin- 
ing green, often purple beneath. Flowers solitary, axillary, on long 
fruit-stalks, bending at the top. Calyx segments equal, smooth. 
Corolla small, variegated with violet and blue ; palate yellow ; spur 
slender, crooked, a little longer than the calyx. Capsule roundish, 
surface uneven, of 2 cells, opening at top into several segments. 
Seeds black, wrinkled. Whole plant quite smooth. 
This very pretty plant is a native of Italy, and is said to have been originally 
introduced into England by means of its seeds having been brought in some 
marble sculptures from that country to Oxford, where it has long established it- 
self on the walls of the Colleges, gardens, Nc. in such abundance, as to have 
obtained the name of “ Oxford-weed.” 
The following anecdote, connected with this plant, is recorded byPROEEssoR 
Schultes, to whom it was related by the late learned and amiable Dr. G. 
Williams, M. D. F. R.S. F. L. S., \c. Pi ofessor of Botany in the University 
of Oxford. — When Linnaeus visited England in 1736, “ be presented himself 
at Oxford to Dillenius and Sherard, being then a very young man, and his 
system having as yet made but little noise in the world of science. The latter 
received him with cordiality; but Dillenius was very cool, and said to 
SiiEnARD, ‘ this is the young fellow who is putting all Botanists and Botany 
into confusion.’ Lin n;eus did not understand the English language, in which 
this remark was made, but yet be recognized in the word canfiuschjen (so pro- 
nounced by Dillenius in his German accent), the Latin epithet confusio. He 
was silent: Sherard and Dillenius walked up and down in the garden with 
their new acquaintance, and stopped by a wall overgrown with Antirrhinum 
(Lin aria ) Cymbalaria ; a plant upon which they were desirous to have the 
opinion of Linnaeus, as much doubt bad existed respecting it. Linnaeus re- 
moved these difficulties with his natural perspicuity, ’i he gentlemen again 
pointed to a second, and a third plant, of which they felt uncertain ; and again 
the Swede explained the dubious points with perfect ease. Dillenius was sur- 
prised; and Sherard observed to him, that he could perceive ‘ no confusion at 
all’ in Linn/eus. He invited the stranger to dine with him ; and during the se- 
veral days that Linnaeus remained in Oxford, he found that the dislike which 
Dillenius had at first entertained towards him, wore gradually away, and gave 
place to esteem and friendship. On taking leave, Linnjeus remarked to Dille- 
nius, that he should be very sorry to have brought confusion into the garden at 
Oxford. Dillenius blushed, and apologized for the hasty word which had 
escaped his lips.” Sciiultes’s Botanical Visit to England ; published in Dr. 
Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, v. i. p. 48—78. 
