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Notes and occasional Observations on some of the Rarer British 

 Plants growing wild in Hampshire. By Wm. Arnold Brom- 

 field, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



In presenting the readers of the ' Phytologist ' with the following 

 list of Hampshire plants, my object has been to promote our know- 

 ledge of the geographical distribution of the species in Britain, which 

 important branch of philosophical Botany is now, through the impulse 

 happily given it by the labours of Mr. H. C. Watson, beginning to re- 

 ceive its due share of attention in this country. The time is gone 

 by when such catalogues are to be viewed and their utility measured 

 by their fitness as vehicles for the communication of mere rarities to 

 the collector. For this reason it is that so many of the plants now 

 enumerated are such as must be called common in Hants and the ad- 

 jacent counties, but as restricted in their general range over the king- 

 dom, the epithet is to be understood in the same limited sense. 



An early communication of this catalogue having been requested by 

 the editor, it is offered in a less complete state than I could have 

 wished. Some habitats are omitted for want of time to look over the 

 lists and notices I have been favoured with from numerous corre- 

 spondents, whose kind and zealous co-operation I shall have the 

 pleasing duty of gratefully acknowledging in another place. These 

 omissions, with I hope some new accessions to our county Flora, I 

 trust to supply when the last part of these notes goes to press. Many of 

 the older stations recorded in Turner and Dillwyn's 'Botanist's Guide' 

 are copied from the 'Hampshire Repository,' and are generally attri- 

 buted to Dr. Pulteney. I have taken them from the original and now- 

 very scarce volumes, for the perusal of which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of a friend in Ryde. When the locality for a plant is not 

 followed by the name of an observer, the occurrence of the species 

 therein rests on my own authority, as having been personally seen 

 there ; in all other cases the name of the first discoverer or recorder 

 is subjoined, either followed or not by one, two, or three notes of 

 admiration. When no such interjectional sign is placed after a name, 

 the station and species are taken on the sole credit of the observer. 

 A single (!) implies that a dried specimen has been seen from the al- 

 leged habitat ; two such marks indicate the receipt of a fresh or living 

 example ; and three, the verification by myself of both plant and sta- 

 tion. Plants certainly introduced are marked {%) ; those doubtfully 

 indigenous with a (f), as being the signs usually employed for this 

 purpose! 



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