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Aquilegia vulgaris L. District IV. 3. Pan Down, near New- 

 port, amongst furze and hawthorn bushes ; copses, East Standen. 



Aconitum Napellus L. Still nourishing in both the localities 

 given in Bromfield's Flora ; the date appended to the specimen 

 in his herbarium is June 11th, 1840. 



F uniar ia. How many of the newly described species can be 

 identified as occurring in the Isle of Wight I am not able to say. 

 It would take probably some years of observation and examination. 

 Out of the thirty-six species in Mr. Pugsley's list at the end of his 

 account of the genus in Britain only four of our island Fumarias 

 remain with the same names as those recorded in Townsend's 

 Flora, namely, F. Borcei, F. muralis, F. officinalis, and F. Vaillantii, 

 the only station for F. Boraii being that " between Cockleton and 

 Gurnet Bay ; Herb. Br. Mus. (Pugsley, 1903)." For F. Vaillantii 

 Lois, only one doubtful record by Dr. Bell Salter in 1855. And 

 for F. densiflora DC. only one record (1865). It is evident that a 

 good deal has to be done in the island as elsewhere in regard to 

 this genus. In my younger days as a botanist I was an enthusi- 

 astic "splitter"; now, from lack of youthful energy probably, I 

 seem to be more inclined to be a " lumper," though I quite 

 appreciate the careful and acute observation of many of the 

 botanical brotherhood. 



Crambe maritima L. Plants have been observed in June, 

 1906, on the western shore of Newtown Creek, and in 1907 on 

 the eastern side. Possibly all the plants noted as occurring in 

 the Isle of Wight have been derived from seeds floated across the 

 Solent from Calshot, where it has been known as abundant for 

 many years. The first notice of it as an Isle of Wight plant is in 

 Morison's Plantarwn Historian Universalis Oxoniensis, 1680. 



Sisymbrium Sophia L. I found this plant in 1867 growing 

 on waste ground, now built over, at St. John's, near Eyde. In 

 July, 1907, specimens from Alverstone, near Newchurch, were 

 sent to me, no doubt casuals. 



S. Irio L. In August, 1875, this plant occurred on the site of 

 an ancient wall in Newport, pulled down in 1874. It has not 

 been noticed since. 



Matthiola incana E. Br. Still as abundant as ever on the 

 chalk cliffs from Freshwater Bay to Compton. There is some 

 difficulty as to which of Mr. Townsend's districts this locality is 

 in. And he must have felt the difficulty, as he puts it under both 

 " IV. N. Wight (1) " and ■■ V. S. Wight (1)." The difficulty arises 

 from the fact that the downs from Compton to the Needles slope 

 to the cliffs form the water-parting, and consequently, according 

 to the description of the districts in the Flora, all the plants of 

 the cliffs and of the downs south of the water-parting are in 

 District V. S. Wight (1), whilst Townsend puts many of them 

 under District IV. N. Wight (1). 



Nasturtium officinale B. Br. IV. 3. East bank of Medina 

 below Newport. 



N. yalustre DC. IV. 3. Between Shide and Pan, near 

 Newport. 



