This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... Bet. Enfield and Winchmore Hill Wood; Church. VII. Abundantly on the walls of Chelsea Garden, and in neighbouring places; B. Syn. iii. 282. Frequent about London; Huds.i. 271. Walls of the Thames; Mart. App. P. C 65. On the Temple wall; f Curt. F. L. Sommerset House, 1802; about Chelsea, 1809; Winch. MSS. On Battersea ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... Bet. Enfield and Winchmore Hill Wood; Church. VII. Abundantly on the walls of Chelsea Garden, and in neighbouring places; B. Syn. iii. 282. Frequent about London; Huds.i. 271. Walls of the Thames; Mart. App. P. C 65. On the Temple wall; f Curt. F. L. Sommerset House, 1802; about Chelsea, 1809; Winch. MSS. On Battersea Bridge, Sowerby; Herb. Mus. Brit. Blackwall, 1836; Herb. Young. Kentish Town, 1841; Herb. Hardw. Ken Wood. Haverstock Hill. Eel-brook Meadow. First record: Dillenius, 1724; also first as a British plant. Dillenius (loc. cit.) considered that Chelsea Gardens was the point from which this plant, a native of South Europe, originated in England, or at all events about London; and in this notion he was followed by Thos. Martyn, Curtis, and Smith. Dr. Bromfield, in Phyt. iii. 621, combats this view, holding L. Cymbalaria to have been known 'from an indefinitely remote period' in England, but to have been a comparative rarity till the general diffusion of a taste for gardening. He calls t Curtis says, In all those parts near London that lay within reach of the Thames; seeds are carried by the flux and reflux of the tide up and down the river, and left at highwater mark in the crevices of old walls, where they take root and increase very fast.' '% Dr. Richardson was perhaps really the earliest observer: 'Everywhere in quarries at Darford, Yorkshire'; R. Syn. iii. -282.' attention to its notice as a garden plant by Gerarde and Parkinson, and says that 'it seems as much at home here as in any country on the Continent.' 477. J.. Elatine, Mill. Elatine altera (Ger.). E.fol. acuminato in basi auriculatofl. luteo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). Antirrhinum E., L. (Curt.). Cyb. Br. ii. 218; iii. 473. Curt. F. L. f. 1. Cornfields and waste ground; rare, A. July--...
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