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could answer Mr. Hudson’s query as to the date of the introduction of the North 
American wild musk — Mimulu 9 Langsdorffii , as its correct name is — into our 
streams. It is not mentioned in Smith’s “ English Flora” (1829), but may only 
AN ANGRY YAFFLE. 
(From Mr. Hudson’s “ Hampshire Days,” by permission of Messrs. Longmans.) 
have been omitted as not indigenous. In the Salisbury Avon it seems to have 
been first noticed in 1830; but certainly Mr. Townsend hardly did justice to its 
prevalence in Hampshire in his “ Flora” of 1883. 
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