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Corolla none. Stamens and pistils appdrently indistinguishable. 
Ovary superior. Fruit a drupe, about the size-and shape of a Green- 
gage plum, red, contains 12-14 hard roundish seeds, about half (?) 
the size of a cherry-stone, lying in two parallel tiers, attached to a 
central placenta; the fruit has, adhering to its apex till nearly ripe, 
6-8 sharp, horny prickles, apparently the remains of the styles. The 
flower seems to consist of a small monosepalous calyx, having inserted 
upon it many stamens, almost sessile, a little tinged with red. The 
pistil appears to consist of 6—8 carpels, with as many styles. Plas 
centa central. 
(To be continued.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Flora Vectensis. 
There are probably not very many species to be added to the list of Isle of 
Wight plants. The labours of the late Dr. Bromfield, until the autumn of the 
year 1850, and of Mr. A. G. More, up to a very recent date, have rendered this 
one of the best worked districts in Britain. The latest published list is, I be- 
lieve, one prepared by Mr. More, as an index to Dr. Bromfield’s herbarium, 
but which also contains very numerous additions and corrections made by him 
since Dr. Bromfield’s death. The following are the only plants not noted in a 
corrected copy of that list, kindly given to me by Mr. More, which I have seen 
growing in the island :— 
eris amara, L. A single plant in Grange Chine. Most probably the seed 
was brought there by the stream which runs through the Chine from Brixton. 
Ulex Gallii, Planch. At Staplers, near Newport; on gravel lying above 
Osborne and Headon beds. Probably also in other localities. 
Trifolium hybridum, L. This plant occurs as a waif of cultivation, but I 
have also collected it in Parkhurst Forest, apparently naturalized. 
Calamintha officinalis, var. Briggsii, Syme. On chalk, near Newport. 
It may be worth recording that a single plant of Cephalanthera grandiflora, 
Bab., was found in New Barn Hummett, near Calbourne, in June of this year, 
by Miss Dennett, who very obligingly presented the specimen to me. A single 
plant was also found by Dr. Bromfield, in the same locality, on June 8th, 
lity in which it has ever been known to grow in this island, is a Jane near 
Carisbrooke Castle, but it has not been observed there since 1847 or 1848, and 
a diligent search has failed to discover any vestige of it. 
It may interest some of your readers to know that a plant of Maiden-hair 
(Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, L.) which I placed last summer in a crevice in the 
wall of my garden here, survived the winter, and has now a very strong and 
healthy frond. 
Newport, Isle of Wight, July 18, 1868. FRED. STRATTON. 
