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found near Fareham, as far as I am aware. The localities printed for 

 Ranunculus aquatilis, fi. panthorix, belong to R. fluitans, and the lo- 

 cality for the former is Chai'k Common. Three plants have been ac- 

 cidentally omitted from the list, viz. : — 



Potamogeton crispum. Pond at Uplands. 



Chenopodiiim murale. Under a wall at liower Quay. 



Fagus sylvatica. Common. 

 Thus much for errors. 



A very interesting feature in this list is the fact that it contains 

 some plants which appear, as far as is hitherto known, to be entirely 

 absent from the Isle of Wight, a district in the immediate vicinity, 

 though some of them grow at or near Hill Head, which is opposite 

 the shores of the island and only four or five miles distant. Thus 

 Glyceria aquatica, Scirpus lacustris, Matricaria Chamomilla and Car- 

 damine amara are, I am informed by Dr. Bromfield, thus absent from 

 the island Flora, while they are truly wild in the localities indicated 

 for them in the list, and, except the second, in tolerable plenty. Spe- 

 cimens have been communicated to Dr. B. as verifying the correct- 

 ness of the names. The case may be reversed, and there are doubt- 

 less many in the Isle of Wight which are quite absent from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Fareham : thus, Anthemis Cotula, though the pest of 

 farmers on the island, I never could find about Fareham, though we 

 had both A. arvensis and A. nobilis. Another curious fact is the al- 

 most total absence of two common species, Draba verna and Arabis 

 Thaliana. They are both included in the list, I having found a plant 

 or two of each, far advanced in seed, on a wall at the iron-mills, Font- 

 ley ; yet as common plants they may be considered as absent. The 

 absence of such common plants from particular districts is very inte- 

 resting, and in this case also it stands in contrast to the Isle of Wight 

 Flora, for in that district the Draba is very abundant. Potamogeton 

 natans, Papaver dubium, Bidens cernua, Scutellaria galericulata, and 

 Chrysanthemum segetum are among other common plants which ap- 

 pear to be absent from the district, not, however, for want of suitable 

 situations for their growth. Of the last, I once found a specimen, but 

 I expect it had been dropped with some corn accidentally. 



OEnanthe pimpinelloides as marked on my list, is, I have no doubt, 

 the plant of Linnaeus. Its roundish-ovate tubers at a distance of an 

 inch or more from the base of the stem — its fruit and inflorescence, 

 together with its habitat, all concur in marking it as the true plant ; 

 and Fareham will therefore afford a new station for it. In " the Sal- 

 terns " its chief companion is Genista tinctoria, and in the field at 



