AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS.
ETD THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR.' j SIR,—In the interesting article on "American Immigrants" in the Spectator of July 13th it is stated that "on the Con- tinent more American plants have become naturalised than in England,—for instance, the Canadian speciea of golden rod." This plant, however, grows abundantly along a little stream in Galloway at some distance from a house. "Cer- tainly a wild flower," wrote the finder when sending a specimen to be named. Those who have seen the banks of the Humber in their autumn colouring of purple and gold—a Michaelmas daisy and this solidago—will gladly welcome these strangers to our land. The yellow mimulus has of late spread with great rapidity through the South of Scotland. Five-and; twenty years ago I knew of but two habitats for it in Kirk; cudbrightshire, one in a wayside ditch on a lonely moor. Now it grows plentifully in many a stream in that county.—I am;
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