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Linaria Purpurea SEPTEMBER 1858 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings [1827]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings, ed. John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1989).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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Linaria Purpurea

SEPTEMBER 1858

Phytologist, n.s. II (Sept. 1858), 566. Appeared in the section entitled “Botanical Notes, Notices, and Queries,” which also serves as running title. Signed “J.S.M.” Not republished. For the identification in Mill’s bibliography, see “Observations on Isatis Tinctoria and Other Plants” above.

touching the murality of Linaria purpurea, the only two places where I have seen it undoubtedly wild were cornfields: one near Frimley, in Surrey, in the large cornfield noted by Mr. Watson as a station of that thumping plant Arnoseris pusilla;1 the other was on the Mont des Alouettes, a richly cultivated eminence in La Vendée, along with Lathyrus angulatus, a plant which will probably some day find its way here as an agrarian plant. The exact similarity of the habitat in these two cases satisfied me that L. purpurea has as much right to be considered a British as a French plant.

[1 ]This reference, identical to that in “Observations on Isatis Tinctoria and Other Plants,” p. 267 above, has not been located.