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culiar to the present order, and, at the same time, common to 

 all the species which it contains, they form the best and 

 surest characteristic by which to distinguish it from other 

 groups of equal value. 



(To be continued). 



Art. VI. — Remarks on the Botany of Selborne. By Mr. William 

 Pamplin, jun., A.L.S. 



Having visited Selborne several different times in the course 

 of my botanical researches in the county of Hants, I am en- 

 abled to give the accompanying short and confessedly imper- 

 fect sketch of the Botany of that truly delightful spot, — a spot 

 not less dear to the admirers of its amiable natural historian 

 and topographer, the Rev. Gilbert White, — than to the lovers 

 of rural retirement, or the cultivators of either branch of na- 

 tural knowledge, with whom this romantic district will always 

 be esteemed as truly classic ground. 



In preparing this rough draft of the Flora Selbornensis, 

 two separate objects have been aimed at : — First I have enu- 

 merated such of the plants as are recorded by Mr. WTiite as 

 growing there in his time ; so far as, from my own actual ob- 

 servation, I have succeeded in verifying their present existence 

 in the localities which he has pointed out : and secondly, I 

 have given a catalogue of a few other plants of rather rare 

 occurrence, or otherwise interesting, which I have met with 

 at various times in the immediately surrounding neighbour- 

 hood. 



A list of so many of Mr. White's plants mentioned in letter 

 lxxxiii, as have come under my observation at different times 

 between 1829 and 1836. 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolium. Abundantly in the moist rocky lanes, 

 particularly in the very deep lane near Norton farm, where it grows 

 luxuriantly. 



Daphne Laureola. 



Mezereum. I did not perceive it in the spot mentioned by Mr. 



White ; it however grows, to all appearance perfectly wild, and not 

 sparingly, in the beech woods between West Meon and Bramdean. 

 I am indebted for this locality to Mrs. W. Moody, of West Meon, 

 who showed me specimens collected there. 



Dips ac us pilosus. In sufficient plenty in 1836. 



Drosera rotundifolia. ) And in bogs on the Common between Oakhang- 



longifolia. j er and Kingsley. 



Epipactis (Serapias in White) latifolia. 



Helleborus viridis. I was unable to find this plant, although I dili- 

 gently sought it in Mr. White's recorded station, May, 183(3. 



