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shade of purple. I found some years since, at Ryde, another singular 

 variety of this species, in which the flowers were hardly one-fourth 

 the usual size, of a deeper, more uniform purple, with fainter streaks, 

 the petals narrower in proportion, more acutely notched, and scarcely 

 equal to the columns of fructification which protruded in the yet not 

 half expanded flower-buds. As Dr. Salter, to whom I showed it, 

 aptly remarked, this variety stands in the same relation to M. sylves- 

 tris (the common form) as M. pusilla does to M. rotundifolia. I have 

 not since fallen in with this remarkable plant. Two additional forms 

 of M. sylvestris occur in this island, the one with an erect, the other 

 with a prostrate stem. A beautiful variety with white flowers of a 

 satin lustre grows at Norton, Tsle of Wight, and in Hayling Island. 



rotundifolia. Not so common in the Isle of Wight as M. 



sylvestris, though generally distributed over the island, and I presume 

 the entire county. Most frequently here in or about farm-yards. 



%Lavatera arborea. Said to grow wild at Hurst Castle, on the 

 authority of Pulteney, but I could never find it there or elsewhere in 

 the county where it could be deemed indigenous. Universally culti- 

 vated in the Isle of Wight, and occasionally found on waste ground 

 as a stray from cottage-gardens. Sparingly naturalized on a rock at 

 Ventnor. 



Althtea officinalis. Abundant on many parts of the coast both of 

 the mainland and island, in salt-marsh ground, and along tide rivers 

 and creeks. Hayling Island. 



Tilia parvifolia. Truly wild in aboriginal woods on the chalk at 

 Bordean Hill, near Petersfield, especially in Ridge Copse, and in a 

 sloping wood adjoining the old chalk-pit on the right going up the hill 

 (where Herminium Monorchis grows), not sparingly, May 24, 1848. 

 The trees being here treated as "rice" (German Re is, Reisholtz, 

 Reisig), or brush, are cut periodically with the copse wood, the 

 beeches alone being allowed to stand, and hence appear only as 

 large shrubs, ten or twelve feet high, with wood of insufficient age for 

 flowering. The lime here puts on its most perfectly wild form, the 

 leaves extremely small, the largest even on the young and succulent 

 shoots not exceeding three inches in breadth, the others much less 

 m or 2 inches). These are very deeply cordate, and nearly equal at 

 base, usually about the length of their foot-stalks, dark green above, 

 glaucous beneath, and quite glabrous, but some of the trees have 

 leaves of a light bright green, with red foot-stalks, which may possibly 

 prove to be T. europaea, hardly distinct, as Fries* remarks, from T. 

 * Corpus Flor. Provin. Suec. Fl. Scan. p. 80. 



