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hedge-banks and waysides in most parts of the Isle of Wight, and I 

 believe not rare in the county generally. 



Lepidium Smithii. On banks and dry waste ground in many parts 

 of the main and island. Frequent about Lymington and Southton. 



It is remarkable that in framiug the specific characters betwixt this 

 species and the last, one of the most obvious and therefore best diag- 

 nostic marks has been overlooked by British writers, almost the only 

 ones who could be expected to discover this striking difference in the 

 habit of L. Smithii, since it is unknown over the greater part of the 

 continent in a wild state. In L. campestre the stem is erect and 

 simple, or copiously and corymbously branched in a very regular 

 manner, the branches being straight and somewhat erect and forming 

 a level top. In L. Smithii the usually numerous stems are always 

 either ascending, inclining, or at most suberect, more commonly 

 spreading or decumbent, and when not simple, branched only at the 

 summit, the branches fewer, shorter, curved upwards and divaricate 

 or spreading, not as in the other erect and forming a regular panicu- 

 late corymb. 



ruderale. Near Southton, as mentioned in Bot. Guide !!! 



Senebiera Coronopus. A very common weed under walls and in 

 waste ground throughout the county and island. 



didyma. Rare ? In great abundance under walls and 



on sea-banks along the east shore of the river at Lymington, for per- 

 haps a couple of hundred yards below the last houses. Very rare in 

 the Isle of Wight at East Cowes, and now I fear almost extirpated by 

 building. Andover ; Mr. W. Whale ! a remarkably inland station for 

 a plant commonly found only on or near the sea coast. 



Crambe maritlma. On the shore at Calshot Castle, where the plant 

 is blanched by covering it with the sand, and so prepared is sent to 

 the London markets. Western Court ; Dr. Pulteney, in Harnp. Rep. 



Reseda lutea. Not rare in the chalky parts of the county. Very 

 common about Andover, and from thence to the Andover-road sta- 

 tion. Rather uncommon in the Isle of Wight, where R. luteola is, on 

 the contrary, of sufficiently frequent occurrence. 



Viola odorata. Extremely common in woods, hedges, and thickets, 

 throughout the entire county and Isle of Wight, rare in the latter 

 with blue flowers, they being here usually white or pale lilac. I can- 

 not see the propriety of printing this humble but fragrant favourite of 

 spring in the ' London Catalogue of British Plants ' in italics, as a sus- 

 pected alien. No plant is, in my judgment, more perfectly wild than 

 the sweet violet in this and in many other of our southern counties 



