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Bitton, intending to call upon Mr. Ellacombe, but he was not at 

 home. I found near Kelston, by the roadside, plenty of Senecio 

 barbariaefolius. 



Sept. 15. Bath Horticultural Society Show for Dahlias. The 

 day was fine, and more than 3000 people were in Sydney Gardens. 

 Dined at the White Hart in the evening. We were a party of 

 about fifty. The whole went off very well. 



Sept. 20. Left Bath for Southampton Walked out and 



found a Spartina on the mud of the river Itchen, which is apparently 

 new. Walked up the river and along the Portswood Road as far as 

 the first bridge, near which I noticed Senecio barbariaefolius and Atropa 

 Belladonna. 



Sept. 21. Went through the New Forest to Lymington and 

 Christchurch. At the latter place went to Muddiford and crossed 

 the river, finding on both sides Polygonum Eaii, and on the west 

 side F. maritimum. On the top of Hengistbury Hill I gathered a 

 very hairy variety of Calluna vulgaris and Ulez nanus. Followed 

 the coast for some distance and then turned inland nearly to Ifod 

 Bridge, and returned to Christchurch by a ferry just below the 

 town. After dinner went to see the church, which is a fine old 

 building in good preservation, the interior most of it early Norman, 

 with some parts in the Pointed style. The exterior is far less 

 perfect. Near the church are small remains of a castle of but 

 little interest, except a Norman building (perhaps a chapel) close 

 to the river. 



Sept. 22. To Muddiford, and then along the coast towards the 

 east. After following it for some distance I turned inland and 

 found plenty of Pulicaria vulgaris by the side of the road to 

 Lyndhurst, about two miles from Christchurch, and by the side 

 of a common 1 noticed Scirpus Savii. 



Sept. 23. Went again to the station for Polygonum maritimum. 



Sept. 24. Returned to Southampton and took up my quarters 

 at Dr. Broomfield's ; he showed me both species of Spartina growing 

 in the Itchen, and Convallaria multijlora in Netley woods. 



Sept. 27. Reached Henfield. 



Sept. 28. Mr. Borrer and I went into Henfield Level and found 

 Polygonum minus. 



Oct. 4. Went with William Borrer to the forest, to a place called 

 Miles' Race (a long avenue of Pinus Sjlvestris), at the farther end 

 of which I found Pyrola media. 



Oct. 5. With. Mr. Borrer to Shoreham, and nearly as far as 

 Worthing. At Compting, by the north side of the road, we gathered 

 Cuscuta Europaea, and in a field opposite to the large house at 

 Offington, by Broadwater, we found a few plants of Verbascum 



