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Avena pratensis. Meadow Oat-grass. • 



Shide Chalk-pit, " Luccomb, &c. not uncommon.' ' 

 D. Turner. 

 Arundo arenaria. Sea Mat-weed, Sea Reed, or Marram. 



On the sea shore near Ryde 4 . 

 Triticum loliaceum. Dwarf Sea Wheat-grass. 



"Yarmouth." E. Forsterjun. 



TETRANDRIA. 



Dipsacus sylvestris. Wild Teasel. 



By hedge sides. In High-wood Lane near Pid- 

 ford. W. D. Snooke. 

 Scabiosa columbaria. Small Scabious. 



About Carisbrooke abundantly ; and in calca- 

 reous soils throughout the island. 

 Aspkrula cynanchica. Squinancy-wort. 



Carisbrooke Castle, and on all the chalky downs, 

 in abundance. • 



Galium cruciatum. Cross -wort. 



In hedges and wood sides, very common. 



tricorne. Corned Bed-straw. 



" On fields near Carisbrooke." D. Turner. 



4 This plant grows only on the very driest sand upon the sea 

 shove, and prevents the wind from dispersing the sand over the 

 adjoining fields. Many a fertile acre has been covered with sand 

 and rendered useless, which might have been prevented by sowing 

 the seeds of this plant upon the shore. It is planted on some of 

 the fiat coasts of Norfolk to repel the sea ; and as soon as it takes 

 root a sand hill gathers round. The inhabitants of Newborough 

 in Anglesea make it into mats and ropes. 



