^^'e fancy that Mr, Dovaston little anticipated the 
animadversions to which he so iimocently subjected 
himself, by this candid acknowledgement of his 
patronage of a supposed foreigner. That serious 
complaints should be advanced against any individual 
for increasing the beauties, and adding to the interest 
of British scenery, will appear singular to themajority 
of our readers. Those, however, who have experi- 
enced an enthusiastic pleasime in the pimsuit of any 
peculiar department of science, can readily excuse 
the feelings of exclusive importance with which the 
minds of naturalists are sometimes occupied. 
No established law of nature, in the geographical 
distribution of plants is interfered with. Under the 
same latitudes of the eastern and western hemispheres, 
the plants are neither all similar nor all dissimilar ; 
therefore, w hether seeds be conveyed by man, or by 
the waters of the deluge, w e see no distinction in the 
consequence. Who, amongst us, would venture to 
assert the propriety of excluding cultivated exotics — 
the edible from our tables, or the ornamental from 
our gardens ; w hy then the flowers from oim fields ! 
W e would be content to register Britain’s legitimate 
post-diluvian Flora as it now stands, class fubme dis- 
coveries as doubtful natives, or acclimated subjects, 
and encourage all to become disseminators of new 
beauties over our native land, for the benefit and 
gratification of future generations. 
After all, the calm looker-on must smile at the 
effects of any recent dissemination of the Linaria c}Tn- 
balaria, since Parkinson, about six generations ago, 
has said “It groweth natiu-ally in divers places of 
our land.” 
Hort. Kew. 2. v. 4, 10. 
