that on the rest of the plant. Style persisting, and scarcely
projecting beyond the notch. Seeds generally two in each
loculament, bordered.
This plant has incomparably better right to be introduced
into the British Flora than many others which have even
lately obtained admission there. It is very possible it may
have been originally introduced with corn from the continent
of Europe ; but of this we have no proof, and certainly
it is perfectly established in several places in Scotland,
where the plough has not been for many years, and, I believe,
in England. It was first discovered June 12, 1835,
at Dirlton Links, a common near the sea-shore, about
twenty miles to the eastward of Edinburgh, by Mr. James
Macaulay, and I have since seen it there in several years,
large in wet, dwindling down to an inch in height in dry
seasons, but always perfecting its seeds and maintaining its
ground, in spite of variations of climate, of the birds which
prey upon it, and, what is worse, of its facility of access to
the botanical collectors of Edinburgh. In two similar situations
in the neighbourhood of Arbroath it was found in
abundance by Dr. M‘Nab. Its period of flowering is May
and June.—It. G.