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often met with in tlie hedgerows and waysides. The Catmint 
(Nei)da cataria) is as common as in England. 
ihe Liirdock so well known to herhalists for 
its roots, and to school-boys by its curiously hooked seeds, has rapidly 
spiead j which is not a matter of sur])rise, the seeds clinging as they 
do to the fleeces of sheep, or on the manes of horses. The Greater 
Celandine ( CheUdoaium VMjns), with its golden milky juice, both 
acrid and narcotic, is found in the. Eastern Shites, and generally 
on the coasts. Shepherd’s-purse (CaimeUa huvm-padoris) is as 
frc(|Ucnt in Canada as with us. 
Eut enough has been said to show how great have been the imports 
to the American Continent. Of (Ira.sses, most of our common 
ones are well established ; the Annual ( Jrass ( Poa nnnuu ), Timothy 
( Phlcum prafensej, Eox-tail (Aleopecurm pratensis), Cock’s-foot 
(Daciylis (jhnnerata), Couch-gi’ass repena), and the Sweet 
A ernal Grass ( Anthoxantlaoii (xiorutum) which gives the sweet 
l)eitumo to fresh-made hay as in iMigland. iJut strange, the Daisy, the 
1 rimrose, and the Cowslip, so dear to English homes, have none 
of them obtained a footin'^. 
O 
Iho foregoing list might have been very largely extended; but 
enough has been said to show that whilst our imports from America 
have been confined to but a few species, so also the exports have 
included many of our common plants. It is a subject full of 
interest to the Naturalist, and one which I trust in time to come 
will be fully worked out ; and, as I have previously noted, it 
is very difficult to account for the discrepancy. Differences of 
the climate and soil will not help us, as we well know that they 
are not so widel} difterent ; and, therefore, I must leave the subject 
to be further elucidated by other and abler hands. 
“ Farewell, farewell, but this I tell 
“ To thee, thou wedding guest ; 
“He prayeth well, who loveth well 
“ Both man and bird and beast ; 
“ He prayetli best, who loveth best 
“ All things Kith great and small j 
‘‘ For the dear Goil that loveth us, 
“ He made and loveth all.” 
