■•44 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ' FLORA VECTENSIS.' 



*Inula Helenium, L. Rough, bushy ground north of Luccombe 

 Chine, in one spot only ; border of Wooclhouse Copse, Osborne (J. 

 Pristo) ; near Norton and Shalfleet (Dr. G. E. Tate) ; in a field neiir 

 Totland Biiy and at Gurnet (R. Tucker) ; a plant or two near Alvington 

 (F. Stratton). I believe always the remains of ancient cultivation, though 

 now thoroughly at home in many difi'erent localities. 



Pulicaria vuh/aris, Gaert. On the west side of the Wilderness at 

 Rookley (A. J. Hambrough). 



Filo(jo spathidala, Presl. In sandy fields about Alverstone, Grove, 

 Newchurch, Bordwood, etc. ; roadside on Messley Down and near Thorley 

 Farm. At Brook, Colwell and Freshwater (H. C. Watson). 



•\Tanaretvm vnhjare, Linn. Bank above the road near Alverstone 

 Lynch ; edge of a sandpit by the road near Bembridge Farm ; at the 

 west moutli of Wootton Creek ; east bank of the Medina, below Newport 

 (F. Stratton). In all cases probably an escape from cultivation. 



Arcliuui maJHs, Schk. Hedgebank, near the Quay at Brading (1858); 

 copse, between Yar Bridge and Sandown; Whitefield Wood ; Marshcombe 

 Copse, Yaverhmd ; in Sea View Bay ; Appuldurcombe Park. In the 

 Wilderness at Rookley (T. W. Beddoine). ^Decidedly rare. 



A. intermedium, Lange, A.puhfns, Bab. Ashey Down (1859); Shank- 

 lin ; Luccombe , Newchurch ; Godshill, etc. Not unfrequent, and shows 

 a decided preference for a calcareous soil. Near Bembridji'e I have found 

 what I believe to be A. nemorosuin, Lej. ; but I do not feel certain that I 

 have properly distinguished it. 



A. minus, Schk. Bembridge; Ashey; Sandown; Pan Common, etc. 

 Apparently the commonest form. 



" Canhiiis Forsteri." Dr. Bromfield's specimen preserved at Kew is 

 very like C. paluntris, with, perhaps, a slight dash of C. arvensis rather 

 than C pratensis. Nageli describes a hvbrid, C. arvensi-palnslre, in Koch, 

 Syn. Fl. Germ. p. 1000. 



Cenlanrea nigra, L. After collecting a large number of specimens, I 

 have felt quite unable to refer them with any coufideuce to the various 

 plants described in the French Floras. Usually the Centaurea with 

 radiant florets has smaller heads, and the scales of the involucre less 

 closely covered. These characters are also found in a dwarf plant without 

 radiant florets gathered on Bembridge Down, which I believe is the same 

 as that which Mr. Stratton finds on the Downs near Newport with rayed 

 florets. I feel sure no reliance can be placed upon the different length 

 or amount of pappus, as on plants otherwise exactly alike I have found 

 it long and short and wanting. With regard to the form described by 

 Mr. Stratton in the 'Exchange Club Report' for ] 869, I should refer 

 his n. 1 to C. nemoraUs of Jordan, which I have noticed not unfrequently 

 in the damp, clayey meadows about Bembridge, this being apparently the 

 typical C. nigra as understood in England. Mr. Stratton's no. 3 — the 

 plant common on chalky banks seems to be C. seroiina, Bor., (the var. 

 decipiens of Babington), to which I should also refer the dwarf plant of 

 the Chalk Downs, whether rayed or not. Mr. Stratton's no. 2 is some- 

 what intermediate, but nearer to C. serotina. 



■\Hyi)ochceris glabra, L. Sandy cultivated field near Alverstone Mill, 

 by the footpath to Newchurch. 



Tragopogon pratensis, L., var. grandijlorus, Syme. In a lane near 

 Easton, Freshwater (J. G. Baker). 



