Fumitory (_Fumaria_, three species), honeywort (_Alyssum maritimum_), narrow-leaved sun rose (_Fumaria viscida_ and _F. Spachii_), _Oxalis corniculata_, _Silene_, _Linum gallicum_, mallow (_Lavatera cretica_?), medick (_Medicago_), wild lentil (_Ervum_), spiny broom (_Cytisus spinosus_), _Valerianella carinata_, _Centaurea aspera_, _Odontites lutea_, _Calamintha Nepeta_, _Polygonum convolvulus_ and _P. aviculare_, amaranth (_Amaranthus Blitum_ and _patulus_), pellitory (_Parietaria_), _Euphorbia_, pine (_Pinus_), wild sarsaparilla (_Smilax aspera_), _Setaria verticillata_ and _S. italica_, _Andropogon Ischæmum_, and of eight other plants of which I do not recognise the seeds. This list, comprising plants belonging to eighteen distinct families, might be greatly prolonged if I were to add to it the names of the seeds which I have seen the ants carry towards their nests, but have not actually detected in the granaries. Thus I have seen trains of ants burdened with the long-beaked, spirally-twisted fruits of crane's bill (_Erodium_), and, as above mentioned, with capsules of chickweed (_Alsine media_) and shepherd's-purse (_Capsella Bursa pastoris_), with whole orange pips, and even haricot beans, seeds of the New Zealand veronica (_V. Andersonii_), of _Silene pseudoatocion_, and many other garden plants, also with nutlets of the plane tree and seeds of the cypress. Pliny mentions[28] incidentally having watched the ants carrying away cypress seeds, and comments upon the fact that so small a creature should be able to interfere with the growth of such a noble tree. [Footnote 28: Pliny, Nat. Hist., xvii. 14, 3.] I have little doubt that the seed stores of the ants in botanic and other gardens, where rare plants are cultivated in southern Europe and in warm climates generally, contain samples taken from the fruits of a great many of the rarer and more interesting species as well as of the weeds and native plants. Indeed I have been told that this is the case by my friend Dr. Bornet, who complains of the depredations committed by the ants in the gardens of the Villa Thuret, at Antibes. They go so far as to plunder the seed bags which are hung from the branches of the trees and shrubs, unless these are securely closed and tied with string; they carry off wholesale the grass and anemone seeds,[29] which are scattered when the lawns are resown; and Dr. Bornet has seen the seeds of _Acacia retinoides_ lie heaped up by the handful at the entrances of their nests, and disappear below after a few hours. [Footnote 29: Properly grass grain and anemone achenes.] M. Germain de St. Pierre has observed similar facts at Hyères, where he has detected large stores of cereals in the granaries of the ants, and considers that the robberies committed by these creatures are sufficient in extent to cause a serious loss to cultivators.