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On walls and dry waste ground, very rare. A. or B. July, August.
VII. Almost everywhere in the suburbs of London, Merretf, 66. Especially
on earth mounds between the City and Kensington ;
in 1667 and 1668, after
the City was burnt, it grew very abundantly on the ruins round St. Paul's,
R. Cat. i. 104. Copiously about Chelsea, Morison, ii. 219 ; where, and also in
the ' Prreludia ' of the same author, p. 498, is an interesting account of the
growth of the species after the great fire. Plentifully on the Lord Cheney's
wall at Chelsea, Fet. Midd. Between Brick Lane and Islington, Fet. Bot. Lond.
291. At the end of Goswell Street, Hill, 338. Frequent enough about Lon-
don, Curt. F. L. In Chelsea garden and all that neighbourhood a troublesome
weed, E. B. 1631. Brompton, Mr. Borrer ; about Haggerstone and near
Chelsea, E. Forster ; opposite Shoreditch Workhouse, L. W. Dillwyn ; B. G.
408. Growing in 1832 beneath brick walls by the side of a then new road
leading from Earl's Court to the new church near Walliam Green, which road
passes the north boundary of the Cemetery, not very plentifully. . . . Mr. Haworth
told me that when he first came to live at Chelsea, about 1790-95, it used
to grow in great abundance in various places by the roadside between Little
Chelsea and Hyde Park Corner, Pamplin {v. s.). See also JVew B. G. 97.
Fu'st record, Merrett, before 1666 ; also the first record as British. We
have seen no specimens collected since 1832, nor ever met with it ourselves,
though no doubt it was formerly very abundant, as the above localities are con-
firmed by specimens in all the older herbaria collected near London. [P. 33.]
The total number of native and naturalized species claimed by our
authors for the county is 859, out of which 58 are supposed to be wovf
extinct, and 133 are very rare. Besides these, they mention 120
casual introductions and garden escapes. Adapting the species limits
to those employed by IVIr. Watson in ' Cybele Britannica,' and com-
paring the county list with that for Britain as a whole, we obtain the
following results, and we give also the North Yorkshire table for com-
parison :
—
Type of Distribution.
British . . .
English
Intermediate .
Scottish . . .
Highland . . .
Germanic . . .
Atlantic . . .
Local or Doubtful
Britain.
532
409
37
81
120
127
70
49
1425
North
Yoi'kshire.
526
301
33
44
32
38
7
11
992
Middlesex.
465
300
4
5
44
3
826