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hairy form of pilosella grows at Carisbrooke Castle. The island 

 is not rich in Hieracia, as out of the 133 species and 146 varieties 

 of Hieracia given in the tenth edition of the London Catalogue, 

 only six have been recorded as occurring in the island. But this 

 may be partly due to the lack of skilled observers of the genus. 



Campanula patula L. and C. Bapunculus L. should both be 

 dropped out of the list of Isle of Wight plants, as, though once 

 recorded as having been found in the south of the island, neither 

 plant has been observed here during the past seventy years. 



Vaccinium Myrtillus L. IV. 3. Marvel, near Newport ; St. 

 George's Down. 



Monotropa Hypopitys L. IV. 3. Carisbrooke Castle. IV. 4. 

 Firestone Copse ; N unwell. 



Gentiana Amarella L. b. prcecox Eaf. V. 2. South slopes of 

 down above Steephill. This is the only locality in which I have 

 seen this plant growing (first on May 27th, 1878). Mr. Tucker's 

 plants from Afton Down (May 25th, 1864) are G. ca/mpestris. 

 Captain A. Steuart reported finding prcecox on May 16th, 1889, on 

 " the down above Bonchurch," and on May 18th, in the same 

 year, on the " slopes south of the monument on Bembridge 

 Downs." I have not seen Captain Steuart's specimens, but in 

 Townsend's Flora the record is " Ventnor Downs; J. H. A. 

 Stewart (Herb. Salmon)." A specimen distributed by Billot as 

 " G. Amarella L., from Mark Brandenburg (Prusse) 7 Aout, 1851," 

 is this plant. 



G. campestris L. IV. 1. Colwell Heath. A few plants 

 observed in 1879, since which date it has often been searched for 

 in vain, both at Colwell and on Afton Down. There ought to be 

 no confusion betw T een this plant and the preceding one, as that is 

 clearly closely allied by its flowers to G. Amarella. 



Menyanthes trifoliata L. IV. 3. Between Gatcombe Mill and 

 Blackwater. 



Convolvulus Solclanella L. V. 2. Below the cliffs west of 

 Sandown. 



Atropa Belladonna L. IV. 2. Chalk pit at Westover. IV. 3. 

 Garden of Nodgham, Carisbrooke. 



Datura Stramonium L. IV. 3. Kailway embankment between 

 Newport and Shide (1873). 



Verbascum Blattaria L. IV. 3. Field south of Marvel Copse, 

 with yellow flowers (1878). 



Mimulus luteus L. (Langsdorfii Donn.). IV. 3. Gatcombe 

 (1904); The Wilderness (1912). V. 2. Peartree (1891); Alver- 

 stone, 1904. 



Veronica Buxbaumii Ten. (Tournefortii C. Gmel.) This plant, 

 which appears to have been first noticed in the island about 1840 

 (it had not been seen by Bromfield up to November, 1840), is now 

 to be found, probably, in every arable field in the island, a 

 striking instance of the rapid and complete naturalization of an 

 alien plant. 



V. agrestis L. In Towmsend's Flora the record is " IV. 

 (N. Wight), com. in all the sub-districts. V. (S. Wight), com. in 



