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parvifolia, in which opinion I am inclined to agree with him, having 

 often met with cultivated limes I felt at a loss to refer to either of the 

 two supposed species ; and in the present case I find no difference but 

 that of colour by which to distinguish them. The woods at Bordean 

 ai*e of purely native growth, and consist principally of beech, inter- 

 mixed with oak, ash, maple, birch, elm (Ulmus montana), and lime, 

 with an undergrowth of white rice (Pyrus Aria), whip crop (Vibur- 

 num Lantana), hazel, spindle-tree, &c, with here and there an old 

 stock of yew and juniper. I understand the lime occurs in the woods 

 of the Hon. Mr. Gaze, of Westbury, near West Meon : I have observed 

 it apparently wild near Lymington ; and I apprehend that Lyndhurst, 

 in the New Forest, may owe its name to a prevalence there of this 

 tree in former times. In the Isle of Wight T. parvifolia is very rare, 

 being confined to a single locality, a small patch of copse-wood, sur- 

 rounded by fields, near Yarmouth, where it is very abundant, and, as 

 I from the first thought, truly indigenous, an opinion in which I am 

 the more confirmed by its subsequent detection at Bordean in an in- 

 dubitably native state. 



^Hypericum calycinum. Naturalized on banks of slipped clay 

 along the shore a little west of Ryde, unquestionably introduced, and 

 I believe never perfecting seed. Extensively planted in shrubberies. 



Androscemum. In various parts of the county, by no 



means rare. (See 'New Botanist's Guide' for several stations). 

 Woods at Clanfield. Very common in the Isle of Wight, where there 

 are few woods or thickets in which it may not be found, though 

 seldom in any plenty in one spot. A beautiful ornament to cover 

 deep hollow lanes and dells from its broad handsome foliage of deli- 

 cate green. 



quadrangulum. Abundant in wet thickets, on ditch- 

 banks, &c, in the island and county generally. 



maculatum ? or H. dubium, rare ? Borders of fields 



at Millbrook, near Southton, Mr. H. C. Watson ! Hill Lane, South- 

 ton, Mr. T. B. Flower ! Both these gentlemen are undecided as to 

 which of the above species, if such they be, their plant is referrible. 

 Besides the obtuse sepals, the leaves of both these species or varieties 

 are copiously reticulated beneath with pellucid anastomosing veins, 

 taking the place of the dots so conspicuous in those of H. perforatum, 

 and by this mark the two species may be readily distinguished in their 

 earliest stage of growth, when the former might be easily confounded 

 and passed by for the broad-leaved form of the latter to be noticed 

 presently. This essential and unvarying character has been totally 



