140 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'FLORA VECTENSIS.' 



On the bench in Snndo^A'n Bay, and also on the shore at Shanklin, I have 

 found stunted phuits of L. syhesfris, which may have led to the error. 



*OnobrychiS saiira, Lam. In no locality where it can be considered 

 indisputal)ly native. The banks and slopes on which it occurs are always 

 adjacent to cultivated land, or have themselves in many cases been 

 ploughed. On Bembridge Down close to tilled ground. Above a chalk- 

 pit on Arreton Down, but close to a cultivated field. On AftonDowu and 

 Buccombe Down, the relics of cultivation (E. Tucker). 



X Pninns domestica (Flora Vectensis). From its round fruit and 

 thorny branches is, I believe, the same as the P. imiiitia of the French 

 Floras, and most authors ; while Dr Bromfield's " P. insititla" is in great 

 part the P. fniticaiis of Grenier and Godron, Boreau, etc. Both look as 

 if planted originally in the hedges where they usually occur. 



*Poterium miinratnm, Spach. Only in and near to cultivated fields ; 

 plentifully in a field of sown grass at Bembridge in 1S58. A few plants 

 by the roadside on Ashey Down, and plentiful in an adjacent cultivated 

 field, 1858 ; near Steephill (Mr. Hambrough). In a field of sown grass 

 above Great Wood, Shanklin. 



Agrimonia oJornta, IVIdl. In thickets and under hedges, rare. About 

 Niton (Mr. W. Mathews, 1855, ' Phytologist,' N.s. vol. i. p. 191). A few 

 plants in Marshcombe Copse, Yaverland ; in Bordwood Copse ; hedge 

 south of Briddlesford Heath. Hedge near Merry Gardens (Rev. 11. H". 

 Crewe). !Near Merston (F. Stratton). 



lAlchemilla vulgaris, Linn. A single patch was found (1849) by Dr. 

 Bell Salter in the grounds of Tyne Hall, Bembridge, where it had been 

 no doubt introduced.] 



KuBUs. Mr. J. G. Baker, during a short visit which he paid to the 

 Isle of Wight in the summer of 1868, made a collection of all the forms 

 which he saw, amounting to about fifty, and has kindly favoured me with 

 the following notes : — 



Rnbus siiberectm, Anders. Seen only once, but very characteristic as 

 regards prickles, etc., in the Tinker's Dell, in Apse woods. 



R. plicatus, W. et N. Plentiful in the marsh at Freshwater gate, and 

 gathered also on Ningwood Common. 



R. rliarnnifolim, W. et N. Several forms which Babington would 

 include here. Bloxam's typical rhnDuiifolius, with a small, long-stalked, 

 finely-toothed, terminal leaflet, scarcely cordate at the base, in hedges, at 

 Stapler's Heath, near Newport ; a larger, more cordate-leaved form, with 

 the inflorescence scarcely more than racemose, near the same place ; a 

 form quite agreeing with the common north country plant, which Bloxam 

 and Warren call affinis, on Col well Heath ; and a plant with cordate leaves 

 a good deal felted beneath, at Ningwood Common. 



R. Lindleianus, Lees. Satisfactory and typical, in the Tinker's Hole, 

 at Apse, and at Stapler's Heath, near Newport. 



R. coryUfoUns, Sm. Next to dmolor, apparently the commonest Bram- 

 ble everywhere through the island. 



R. Balfoirrianus, Blox. I saw a plant which Babington places here in 

 a hedge at Brading, and again in two or three places along the Underclift", 

 west of Ventnor. This is not exactly Bloxam's original Balfourianvs, 

 and diff"ers from corylifolins, principally by the sepals adpressed to the 

 fruit. Genevier labels it " degeiier.'' 



R. discolor, W. et N. By far the commonest Bramble through the 



