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as wide -is the slieatlis of the leaves. This therefore is not quite the 

 Flcaria u. vimbeus of foreign writers, though I believe it the var. incum- 

 bens of Lyme's ' English Botany.' 



R. acris, L., var. R. Borminiis, Jord. Our Isle of Wight plant appears 

 to bebng exclusively to the form " R. tomophyllus," of Jordan ('Diag- 

 noses,' p. 71), differing from typical R. Boraauus in having the base of 

 the stem and the petioles of tiie radical leaves clothed with spreading 

 yellow hairs. I have not met with R. vulgatus, Jord. 



R. hirsutns, Curt, Frequent in damp meadows, especially near the 

 sea ; occurs also on village greens, as at Nettlestone. By no means ex- 

 clusively agrestal in the Isle of Wight. 



Galtha j^ulustris, L. So far as I know, only the variety " vulgaris " 

 occurs. 



*Hellebo7'as vlridis, L. A large patch in Woodhouse Copse, near Al- 

 verstone (J. Pristo) ; the remains, I fear, of former cidtivation. 



XHellcboriis fcetidus, L. Probably not indigenous at St. Lawrence, 

 where I have only seen it in and near to what was formerly a shrubbery 

 or pleasure ground, and which, though now sufficiently wild in appear- 

 ance, still produces the cut-leaved Elder and a foreign species of Hyperi- 

 cum. Mr. Stratton has observed one or two plants in a still more 

 suspicious station, in a hazel copse close to the orchard at Apes Down 

 Farm. 



Aquilef/ia vulgaris, L. In a Avood south-west of Colwell ; and by the 

 side of the Yar, one mile south of Yarmouth, sparingly in both places, but 

 truly wild (J. G. Baker). Formerly at Alverstone, on land that had been 

 cultivated many years ago (J. Pristo). 



^Delphinium Jjacis, L. The two specimens of " D. Consolida^'' men- 

 tioned in ' Flora A''ectensis ' as gathered by Mr. Hambrough and Miss 

 Kirkpatrick, both have a pubescent capsule ; but the plant has no claim 

 to be considered established in our cornfields.] 



*Berberis vulgaris, L. A few bushes in a hedge between Furzy 

 Goldens and More Green, Freshwater (H. C. Watson). Probably 

 planted here, as in the other localities given in ' Flora Vectensis.' 



%Papaver duhium [Lamottei, Bor.). .Sandy cornfields above Bed Cliff, 

 Sandown Bay ; in corn near Newchurch ; chalk-pit, south-east of Caris- 

 brook Castle. By no means common. 



%F. Lecoquii, Lamotte. Cultivated fields above the landslip at Luc- 

 combe (Rev. W. W. Newbould, 1858). A single plant in a sandy turnip- 

 field at Bembridge. On a heap of chalky rubbish by the roadside between 

 Lake and Shanklin. Frequent in garden ground at Ventnor and Bon- 

 chm'ch. Near Gatcombe and Carisbrooke (F. Stratton). P. Lecoquii 

 shows a decided preference for a calcareous soil, as P. Lamottei does for 

 sand. . Both plants are very local or scarce. 



XPapaver Rliceas, var. slrigosmn, Bonninghausen. Near Yaverland ; 

 near Tyne House, Bembridge ; at Kerne, Ashey, and Nunwell ; but in all 

 stations sparingly, This is not an ambiguous or intermediate form, but 

 simply P. Rho;as with adpressed hairs. 



■\Famaria paUidiJhra, Jord. In hedges and on rough bushy banks 

 about Bouchurch aud Ventnor, but in no great abundance (1861). In a 

 hedge at Brightstonc, where Mr. Stratton also has gathered it. Mr. 

 Stratton has kindly shown me the specimens he named F. Borcei (' Jour- 

 nal of Botany,' Vll. p. 315). I cannot see how they difl'er, except in 



