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Clematis Vitalba. Most abundantly throughout the county, and 

 the Isle of Wight, wherever the soil contains any notable proportion 

 of calcareous earth ; our thick tufted hedgerows often seeming as if 

 weighed down by the oppressive luxuriance of this very ornamental 

 climber. 



Thalictrum Jlavum. Apparently rare. Oram's Harbour, Winton ; 

 Mr. W. Whale ! Near Southampton and at Shawford ; Miss G. E. 

 Kilderbee. Hill Head; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Twyford water meadows ; 

 Dr. A. D. White. Near Wickham and Droxford; Pulteney, in 

 Hamp. Rep. Extremely rare in the Isle of Wight. 



My osur us minimus. Corn-fields and waste ground. Near Bishop's 

 Waltham, and probably not rare on the mainland of Hants. Very 

 common, and in some years most abundant, in the Isle of Wight. 



Ado?} is autumn alts. Corn-fields. Matterley Farm ; Dr. Pulteney, 

 in Hamp. Rep. Wonston and Bullington ; Rev. D. Cockelton. In 

 several parts of the Isle of Wight, but rare. 



Ranunculus Lingua. Sowley Pond ; Mr. R. Jefferd. In several 

 places in the Isle of Wight, but not general. Water meadows be- 

 tween Lord Rodney's Park and Bishop's Sutton, plentifully ; Mr. H. 

 C. Watson. 



hirsuius. By the baths at Lymington ; observed on a 



late visit to this my native town, and during an unsuccessful search 

 for the long-lost Scirpus parvulus. Isle of Wight, but not common. 



parviflorus. About Lymington and Southton, in vari- 

 ous places. Andover ; Mr. W. Whale. Very frequent in the Isle of 

 Wight. 



arvensis. Common in the county. Much too abun- 

 dant in the Isle of Wight in the corn-fields of our slovenly farmers. 



t \Helleborus viridis. At Laugrish, near Petersfield ; Miss G. E. 

 Kilderbee!!! but I am not quite satisfied that it is truly wild there. 

 Wood at Tigwell, near West Meon ; Miss E. Sibley !! I have heard 

 of other stations, either for this or the following species, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Petersfield, but am not yet sufficiently informed on the 

 subject to communicate them here. 



fcetidus. Truly wild but not common in our vast 



beech woods, called in the county " hangers ";* where it occupies the 

 steep sloping sides of the chalk hills, as I have seen II. niger do those 

 of the Apennine and Austrian Alps. Selborne, as noticed by White. 



* In this word the g is pronounced as if belonging to the second syllable, han-ger, 

 not to the first, as in its more commonly known meaning. 



