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and the Isle of Wight," Johnson's Gerarde's ' Herbal ' (1633), p. 533 ; 

 " on the white cliffes on the south side of the Isle of Wight," Johnson's 

 'Mercurius Botanicus ' (1634.), p. 31. No early record in Bromfield, 

 p. 212, for Crithmum maritimum. The ' Flora Vectiana ' (1823) says 

 (p. 15) " first noticed by D(awson) Turner." Mercurialis mas et 

 femina, G., 332; Ray, 95 ; M. spicata sive foemina, Diosc. Merc. Bot. 

 p, 50. "Both at Ryde, by the seaside," Merc. Bot. p. 50. Under 

 Mercm-ialis annua, Bromfield (p. 446) refers to Ray. Galaogonum 

 cub'dalis altitudinis, flore luteo, in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Cole ; Mer- 

 rett, p. 31. Bromfield (p. 362) refers to Ray's ' Indiculus,' where it 

 is suggested that it is what is now called Bartsla viscosa, a plant dis- 

 covered of late years in the island by Mr. A. G. More. (See Bromfield in 

 ' Phytologist,' iii. 634.) Lychnis marina repens nlha,^\\\i<i, Sea Cam- 

 pion, " by Hurst Castle, near the Isle of Wight, and in the sayd Isle 

 in many places by the seaside, and Lychnis marina repens, flore rubello. 

 Red-flowered Sea Campion, in some of those places aforesaid, as also 

 about a mile from Southampton in the ground of one Mr. Gouch, a 

 divine ; both of them chiefly in the south parts of this land on the 

 most stony banks by the seaside." Parkinson, Theat. Bot. (1640) 

 p. 640. Bromfield, p. 62, has no reference under Silene maritima. 

 Gramen arundinaceum 30 pedes long am, on the south of the Isle of 

 Wight, by the seaside towards the Point, Merret, p. 49. Bromfield 

 (p. 615) refers to Ray's Indiculus Plant. Dub. for this, which he 

 considers Phragmites communis, var. /3. Gramen jnnceum maritimum 

 exile, Pluinostii, Park. 1270. {Gramen jiincoides exile omniumque 

 tenuissimum Pleyrauense montosis udis juxta Plymouth in Cornubise 

 finibus oriendum. Lobel stirpium illuscrationes, accurante. Gal. 

 How. p. 67.) " Plentiful where a small dril issueth out betwixt the 

 rocks, near the south-east point in the Isle of Wight," Merrett, p. 55. 

 This, Dr. Bromfield (p. 545) identifies from tiie figure and description 

 in Parkinson with Scirpus Savii, S. et M. Malva arborea marina 

 nostras, at Hurst, Parkinson, p. 306, " English Sea-tree Mallow ;" 

 Mr. Morgan received it from the Isle of Wight, Merrett, p. 75. Brom- 

 field does not refer to any early notice of Lavatera arborea at p. 83. 

 Besides these flowering plants, there are records of Fuciis niarinns 

 rotundas {qnare, a forma, Guil., broad norainavit), Ligula marina, sea- 

 points or laces, on the south side of the Isle of Wight, amongst the 

 rockes, Merc. Bot. p. 36, Fnngna hepatis facie et colore, as you go 



