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tory , v. 198, and Phytologist, ii. 389, 420-1, are also garden- 
escapes, and have no title to be considered indigenous. Per- 
haps, however, other plants generally looked upon as natives, 
as Anchusa sempervirens , Doronicum Pardalianohes , &c., 
many have had a like origin, although at a remote period. 
Rather abundant on the banks of the Esk near Kinnaird, 
Mr John Paiing. Margin of the Eighty at Strathmartin, 
plentiful and quite naturalized, Mr G. Lawson. In both of 
these places its origin is likely similar, especially on Dighty, 
as there are gardens in the small village of Strathmartin close 
upon the stream, above the station. 
The stigma of this plant presents a very remarkable in- 
stance of vegetable irritability. It is two-lobed, and on the 
lobes being touched on their interior surface with a pin or a 
grain of pollen, they suddenly collapse, and continue in that 
state for some time, thus allowing the pollen sufficient time 
to elaborate. This curious property is perhaps intended by 
Nature to supply the place of the usual viscid moisture of the 
stigma, which in this plant is comparatively deficient.) 
Ord. LXI.— LABIATE. 
Gen. Br. 23. F. 14. Sp. and v. Br. 69. F. 26. 
Salvia, L. Sage, or Clary. 
Br. sp. 3. F. 1. 
S. Verbenaca , L. Wild English Clary, or Sage. H. 
248, B. 230. — F. May, June. P. 
Side of the Magdalen-yard Green, Dundee, but probably 
the outcast of a garden. 
Mentha, L. Mint. 
Br. sp. and v. 18. F. 5. 
M. sylvestris , L. Horse-Mint. H. 249, B. 228. — F. 
Augt. Oct. P. 
In several spots on the side of the new Glammis road, where 
it emerges from the Sidlaw Hills into Glen Ogilvy, not near 
