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take the place of T. latifolia ; and where the two grow together, 

 the slender species appears to drive out the robuster. 



S par g anium neglectum Beeby. V. 2. Near Landguard, Shanklin. 



Arum italicum Miller. This plant is still abundant in the 

 undercliff from Ventnor to Niton. The leaves appear towards the 

 end of September, the flower about the beginning of June, the 

 fully-ripe fruit in October, and the young seedlings in February. 

 I am not sure that I have not seen plants with white-veined 

 leaves, but certainly not often. In Jersey in April, 1871, Dr. 

 Trimen and I collected plants with white-veined leaves. 



Lemna polyrrhiza L. The Sandown locality is in District 

 V. 2, not IV. 



Zannicliellia palustris L. V. 1. The locality is " Mottistone 

 Mill," not " Mottisfont." 



Hydrocharis Morsus-rana L. IV. 1. Pool on a small heath 

 between Freshwater Farm and Norton. 



Eloclea canadensis Michx. Stated in Mr. A. G. More's Supple- 

 ment to have been planted in a pond near the Spencer Eoad, 

 Eyde, before 1850. In 1860 it was found at Barton, near Osborne, 

 and by 1864 it was abundant everywhere in the island ; another 

 instance of the rapid dispersion of the plant. By 1880 it had 

 ceased to be the prevailing plant in the ponds and mill-streams 

 in the neighbourhood of Newport, but in 1908 it seemed to be 

 making some progress again, which up to the present time it has 

 not maintained. 



Aceras anthropophora E. Br. V. 2. Shanklin Down. 



Orchis pyramidalis L. IV. 3. Pan Down. IV. 4. Arreton 

 Down. 



0. ustulata L. V. 1. Shorwell. 



0. latifolia L. IV. 3. Clatterford Pan, near Newport. 



Gymnadenia conopsea E. Br. IV. 3. Carisbrooke Castle ; Pan 

 Down. 



Ophrys apifera Huds. and 0. muscifera Huds. Both are 

 becoming much more scarce with us, greatly due, I believe, to 

 the so-called "nature study" now very popular in our schools. 

 It is very desirable that a horror of collecting numbers of speci- 

 mens of rare plants should be instilled in the minds of children 

 and others. 



Neottia Nidus-avis Eich. V. 2. Fremantle Wood, near 

 Godshill. 



Eptipactis latifolia All. {helleborine Hill). IV. 3. Alverstone 

 Whippingham. 



Cephalanthera grandiflora Gray. IV. 2. Westover. IV. 3. 

 Carisbrooke Castle. V. 2. St. Lawrence. 



Colchicum autumnale L. IV. 3. This plant has for at least 

 fifteen years grown freely and without cultivation in the grassy 

 borders of the garden of Blackwater House. The locality agrees 

 fairly with that mentioned by Bromfield, " a field by the Medina 

 above Shide Bridge," in which the plant was found many years 

 ago. I do not know if it was ever planted at Blackwater. 



Cyperus longus L. The brave struggle for existence which 



