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Smyrnium Olusatrum. Common Alexanders. 



About Yarmouth, Norton, and Thorley. By the 



marsh below St. Helen's, in plenty. 

 Apium graveolens. Smallage, or Wild Celery. 



About Newport, Yarmouth, and Bradir.g. 

 iEGOPODiUM Podagraria. Gout-weed, or Ash-weed. 



Between Buccomb and Shorwell. Norton. Fresh- 

 water. 

 Viburnum Lantana. Mealy Guelder Rose. 



Common in the hedges. 

 Sambucus Ebulus. Dwarf Elder. 



Between Newport and Carisbrooke Castle. 



" Between Luccomb and Bonchurch." S. 

 Woods. 

 Tamarix gallica. French Tamarisk. 



Freshwater Gate. First noticed by Pulteney. 

 Statice Limonium. Lavender Thrift. 



Yarmouth, and Brading Harbour, in abundance. 

 Linum usitatissimum. Common Flax 23 . 



Places of growth not specified. Pulteney. 



About Kennerley. W. D. Snooke. 

 angusiifolium. Narrow-leaved Pale Flax. 



Near Ryde and Shanklin. About Colwell, Fresh- 

 water, Sandown, Kennerley, and most parts of 

 the island. 



23 This valuable plant originally came from those parts of Egypt 

 which are exposed to the inundations of the Nile. The seeds yield 

 the linseed-oil in large proportion ; and tbe remaining part is made 

 into oil-cake, which is useful to fatten cattle. The fibres of the 

 stein are manufactured into linen. 



