A SUPPLEMENT TO THE * FLORA VECTENSIS.' 73 



In drawing up the following list, I gladly acknowledge the great 

 assistance which I have, on many occasions, received from my friends 

 Messrs. Babington, Boswell Syme, Watson, Baker, and others, who, in 

 cases where I have felt any doubt, have continually given me the advan- 

 tage of their opinion. 



^Tlie late Mr. A. J. Hambrough, of Steephill, Mr. F. Stratton, Mr. J. 

 Pristo, and others of my friends have supplied a large number of loca- 

 lities. Mr. Stratton has also extracted from a copy of the ' Flora Vec- 

 tensis ' some memoranda left by the former owner, the late Major H, 

 Smith, whose observations-, however, must be received with some degree 

 of reserve. Dr. G. R. Tate has kindly placed at my disposal a series of 

 notes made during his stay at Freshwater, from 1865 to 1868, antl Mr. 

 J. G. Baker has favoured me with his observations on Yectensian lioscs 

 and R/ibi, made in 1868. 



A few of the following plants are included in a " Catalogue of the 

 Plants of the Isle of Wight," published by me in the 'Annual lleport for 

 1859 of the Isle of Wight Pliilosophical Society,' and intended to serve 

 as an index to tlu^ herbarium of Dr. Bromfield, which is preserved at 

 Ryde, in the rooms of the Society. Some of the localities and plants 

 have also been noticed by myself in the botanical portion of the Appendix 

 to ' A New Guide to the" Isle of Wight,' by the Rev. E. Venables (1860), 

 or from year to year in the ' Phytologist,' the 'Reports of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club,' or the ' Journal of Botany,' but many, especially of the 

 critical forms, have not yet been recorded. 



It is to be remembered that the localities here given do not pretend to 

 show the complete range in the Isle of Wight of any of the plants, but 

 are strictly supplementary to those given l)y Dr. Bromfield in his ' Flora 

 Vectensis * (1856), and in his "Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in 

 Hampshire," published in the 'Phytologist,' o.s. vol. iii. and iv. (ISi?- 

 1851). 



The marks of naturalization are used, as I have employed them else- 

 where, the single dagger f for cases of slight suspicion, for plants which 

 now appear native, but were possibly introduced. The doid)le dagger J 

 for plants probably introduced, including nearly all the regular colonists 

 or cornfield weeds, which spring up, year after year, in cultivated land. 

 The asterisk * is used for plants certainly introduced. Within the 

 brackets [] are included plants which are nowhere permanently esta- 

 blished, but occur occasionally as escapes from cultivation, or by some other 

 accident, without being self-supporting, also numerous species which have 

 been evidently planted, and have scarcely yet strayed beyond the limits of 

 gardens, houses, or intentional cultivation, and the extinct plants. The 

 mark ! is employed in a few cases where I have examined a dried speci- 

 men, though I have not gathered the plant. ' 



[^ThaUclriimJIavum, L. Probably extinct; I could not find it in 1863, 

 and Mr. F. Stratton has also searched unsuccessfully at Wootton Creek. 

 "Formerly in Lee Meadows, E. M." (Major Smith.)] 



XAJouis aiiiiimnalis, L. "Fields at Wroxall and Lowcombe " (Major 

 Smith). Flowers in July and August, hardly so early as May. Abundant 

 in the upper cornfields above Steephill and St. Lawrence ; appears well 

 established as a weed among the crops. 



Rammcnlits tricJiopht/Ilns, Chaix. Pond in a meadow nearly opposite 

 the end of the " Spencer Koad," Ryde (1856), also in the pool south of 



