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sub-district (1). (2) Niton ; Eogers." I doubt its being common, 

 and I believe I have never found it in the island. Unfortunately 

 I lent, at his request, in June, 1911, my packet of Veronicas, 

 fifty-four sheets, to Dr. Ernst Lehmann, of Kiel, who informed 

 me that he was engaged on a monograph of the genus Veronica ; 

 I have never been able to get this packet returned to me, but he 

 informed me that none of the plants in the packet were V. agrestis. 



V. montana L. IV. 3. Copse little Pan, near Newport. 



Lathrcea Squamaria L. V. 2. " Edge of cliff in Sandown 

 Bay (1870) ; E. Stratton (Br. Mus. Herb.)." A curious error, as 

 I certainly never saw the plant in that locality, nor anywhere in 

 District V. 2. [There is no specimen from this locality in the 

 British Museum Herbarium. — Ed.] 



Orobanche Picridis E. W. Schultz. An Orobanche, which I 

 have failed to distinguish from this, was growing on Crepis virens, 

 on the chalk down above Cheverton (Dist. IV. 2) this year. In 

 1868 Mr. J. G. Baker recorded finding 0. minor, " Apes Down, 

 on Crepis virens," a locality very much the same as the one above. 



Ly copies eiiropceus L. IV. 3. Eord Mill, Newport. 



Mentha rotundifolia Hudson. IV. 3. Between Marvel and 

 Blackwater. 



M. rubra Sm. V. 2. Whitwell (G. C. Druce in Journ. Bot. 

 1905, 394). 



M. Pulegium L. The locality given in Townsend's Flora, IV. 3. 

 " Plantation on left hand, approaching Carisbrooke Castle from 

 Newport," is no doubt an error, as the plantation is on bare chalk. 



Calamintha menthifolia Host. var. Briggsii Syme. V. 1. Shor- 

 well Shoot. I have no doubt that this plant and Bromfield's G. 

 sylvatica are the ones we get in the island, but we also have very 

 characteristic plants of typical menthifoliav&r. a genuina of Boswell 

 Syme (Engl. Bot. eel. 3, vii. 34). They agree with the plants 

 distributed by Billot as follows: Bromfield's G. sylvatica is C. 

 officinalis Moench, Billot's specimens being from "les jeunes 

 tailles du calcaire jurassique inferieur a Liverdun pres de Nancy." 

 I found the same plant near the Beatenhohle, on the north side 

 of the Lake of Thun. This is, I presume, Clinopoclium grandi- 

 florum 0. Kuntze. G. menthifolia Host. var. Briggsii Syme is 

 C. ascendens Jordan, which Billot sent from " Lieux sees et 

 pierreux avec ses congeneres aux environs de Lyon." I conclude 

 that Glinopodium Calamintha 0. Kuntze includes both Cala- 

 mintha menthifolia Host, and Syme's var. Briggsii. Eeferring to 

 Townsend's note under C. sylvatica Bromf., I may add that this 

 plant grows and seeds very readily in gardens and greenhouses, 

 as it has done spontaneously in mine for over forty years past. 



Nepeta Cataria h. IV. 1. "Sconce Tower" (Snooke's Flora 

 Vectiana) is between Colwell and Norton. 



Scutellaria minor L. IV. 3. Sullens, near Newport. 



Lamium hybridum Vill. IV. 3. Between Marvel and White- 

 croft (1869) ; St. George's Down. 



Lithospermum officinale L. IV. 3. Shide; Pan Down, near 

 Newport. 



