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Matricaria suaveolens Buch. IV. 2. Apes Down. IV. 3. In 

 many localities near Newport and elsewhere. The extraordinary- 

 rapidity with which this plant has spread itself in the island is 

 quite unaccountable, as also is its abundance, though there is less 

 in quantity this year. 



Achillea Ptarmica L. IV. 3. Abundant in pasture near East 

 Medina Mill ; Staplers ; Mount Misery. 



Artemisia Absinthium L. Does not occur north of the chalk 

 range. Many localities are given by Dr. Bromfield in the Phyto- 

 logist, vol. iii. 437-490, but none in the Flora Vectensis. V. 1. Chale 

 Green. V. 2 Luccombe; Bordwood. 



Filago apiculata G. E. Smith. IV. 3. Arable field above 

 Idlecombe. I have a note, "Wight, Newbould, Top. Bot. edn. 2, 

 Supplement," but I do not know to what locality it refers. 



F. minima Fries. IV. 1. Headon, Freshwater. 



Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. I have never met with this 

 species in the Island. 



Senecio sylvaticus L. IV. 3. Abundant on St. George's Down. 



S. campestris DC. IV. 2. Plentiful over a considerable area 

 on the S.E. (not "Western ") extremity of Westover Down, but 

 not found elsewhere except on Afton Down, where it is very 

 scarce, if it still exists. I have not seen it on Afton Down since 

 1883. 



Bidens cernaa L. and B. tripartita L. both occur sparingly in 

 and near the Medina stream close to Newport. 



Inula crithmoides L. IV. 3. Bank of Medina Eiver at Werrar ; 

 below Newport, west side. 



I. Helenium L. IV. 3. King's Quay. 



Petasites fragrans Presl. IV. 3. Naturalized and greatly 

 increasing in many localities. The flowering time here is from 

 the middle of December to the end of January. 



dehor hem Intybus L. V. 1. Compton. 



Hypochceris glabra L. IV. 1. Headon, Freshwater. 



Picris hieracioides L. var. gracilis Jord. IV. 2. " Apes Down ; 

 also (V. 2) near St. Lawrence." G. C. Druce in Journ. Bot. 

 1906, p. 394. 



Taraxacum officinale Weber, var. erythrospermum Andrz. 

 IV. 3. Newport ; Standen. 



Lactuca virosa L. V. 2. The two records in Townsend's 

 Flora probably relate to the one locality near Winford Firs, where 

 I saw it growing in 1875. 



Crepis taraxicifolia Thuillier. IV. 1. Totland Bay, 1879. In 

 the Supplement to the second edition of Topographical Botany the 

 record is " Wight. J. Groves." 



C. setosa Hall. IV. 1. Totland Bay, 1879. 



C. biennis L. IV. 1. Totland Bay, 1879, 



Hieracium pilosissimum Fries Peleterianum Merat. All my 

 specimens from Freshwater are thickly clothed with long brown 

 hairs and felt, and very much resemble a plant distributed by 

 Billot in his Flora exsiccata, under the name Hieracium mixtum 

 Fral. ap. The hairs and felt of H. pilosella are whiter. A very 



