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XEuphorbla plafyphylla, L. Cornfields near the windmill at Bembridge 

 and on Bembridge Down ; at Carpenter's, near St. Helen's ; cornfields 

 above Steepliill ; at Hampstead, Sliallleet (Dr. G. R. Tate). Alverstone, 

 Whippinghani (J. Pristo). 



E. Paralias, L. One plant on the sandy shore of Gurnet Bay, 1868 

 (J. Pristo), probably sprung from seed carried by sea from Hayling 

 Island. Still flourishes on St. Helen's Spit and at Norton, where it was 

 planted by Dr. Bromfield. 



Urtica dioica, L., xax.angnstifoUa. Lower Hide Farm, near Shanklin! 

 (Rev. T. Salvvey). 



XUlmus. I do not think either species of Elm is indigenous in the 

 Isle of Wight. Trees so commonly planted, whose roots run so far, and 

 whose seed is so easily scattered, require stronger evidence in their favour 

 than I have yet seen ; and there are in the Isle of Wight scarcely any 

 upland copses where the Elm might be exjiected to occur as native. 



XSallx triandra, L. Redhill Farm, Appuldurcombe (Herb. Bromfield). 

 The specimen is from a female plant, and is marked as doubtfully native. 



XS. fragil'm, L. Marshcombe Copse, Yaverland ; near Yar Bridge ; 

 near Kerne Farm ; Lower Knighton, etc., but not in any locality where it 

 can be considered native. 



-S". acnvibiata, Sm. The Willow from Northwood Park, preserved 

 under this name in Dr. Bi'orafield's herbarium, is referred by Professor 

 Babington and Mr. J. G. Baker to S. Stnithiana, Willd., var. rugom, but 

 1 have gathered in Marshcombe Copse a plant which exactly corresponds 

 with the figure of -S*. acuminata in ' English Botany,' and this seems to be 

 a hybrid between S. caprcea and S. viminalis. 



Obs. S. laurina, Flor. Vect. Some imperfect specimens from Barns- 

 ley Farm, preserved under this name in Dr. Bromfield's herbarium, belong 

 to S. cinerea, L., and it is to be feared that the Sallx noticed near New- 

 town by Mr. Borrer was the same, or, if correctly named, it must have 

 been planted. S. acutifolia, S. creru^ea, S. vitellbia, S. triandra, etc., are 

 cultivated in the Willow beds, but the only species which appear certainly 

 indigenous are S. repens, S. aurita, S. cinerea, and S. caprcea. 



XJimiperus communis, L. I have only seen the single bush which 

 grows on the down above Nunwell, and on it I found several well-formed 

 and fertile-looking berries in April, 1860, 



{To be continued.) 



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Plants of Staffordshire. — In reply to the Rev. W^ A. Leighton 

 (see p. 112), I am able to state that Cannock Chase is abont 760 feet 

 above the sea level, and Sutton about 450 feet. The flora of Sutton 

 Common is more boreal than alpine, I think, containing an abundance of 

 Ulex europfEus, Calluna vulgaris, Erica cinerea, E. Tetralix, with here 

 and there scattered tufts of Triodia decumbens and Molinia ccerulea. I 

 also find Parnassia palustris and Jasione montana, but never abundant 

 here. The flora of Cannock Chase is much the same as that of Sutton. — 

 J. Bagnall. 



