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Acer campestre. Woods, thickets, and hedge-rows, everywhere 

 throughout the county and island, most abundantly, constituting a 

 considerable proportion of the ligneous vegetation. Specimens of 

 this neat and pretty little tree, of considerable size and height, are 

 frequent in various parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, but the 

 wood, formerly much esteemed for cabinet work, is now very little 

 sought after. 



Psev do-platan us. Not unfrequent in woods, thickets, and 



hedge-rows, and often far enough from habitations, but certainly a 

 naturalized and not aboriginal tree in the south of England, though I 

 suspect it to be indigenous to mountainous situations in the northern 

 counties, where it attains to a greater bulk and stature than it com- 

 monly reaches here. We have few fine sycamores in this island, and 

 none of any extraordinary magnitude that I know of in the county. 

 I have seen seedlings of this tree springing up by thousands on the 

 bare sides of our chalk downs, but whether they perish from some- 

 thing uncongenial in the situation, or are browzed down by the sheep, 

 I know not, but they rarely are found to establish themselves in these 

 exposed localities. 



Geranium pratense. Very rare, nor have I yet seen Hampshire 

 specimens of this or of the following. Field at Breamore, Miss May. 

 Walworth Road, Andover, Mr. Wm. Whale. Thought to have been 

 found in a field near Ryde, as I hear from my friend Mr. Wm. Wil- 

 son Saunders, but I have never met with it in the island. 



pyrenaicum. Widely : Dr. Pulteney in Hamp. Rep. 



pusillum. Fields and waste places, but not common. 



In several parts of the Isle of Wight, and doubtless also on the main- 

 land, though I have no station to give for the latter. 



molle. Abundant almost everywhere in the county and 



island, exhibiting considerable difference in the size and colour of the 

 flowers, which vary from bright pink or purple to white or nearly so. 

 A larger, more erect form, with larger flowers, I find occasionally here 

 and across the Solent, which might be mistaken, as I did on first 

 sight, for G. pyrenaicum. This, which 1 unfortunately neglected to 

 examine particularly, is probably identical with a plant not uncom- 

 mon at the back of the Isle of Wight, according to Mr. J. A. Ban- 

 key, closely resembling G. molle, but having the carpels neither 

 wrinkled as in that, nor hairy as in G. pusillum, and which both that 

 gentleman and Mr. W. W. Saunders conceive may be the G. pyrenai- 

 cum of Reichenbach, not of Smith, &c. May not the Widley plant 

 be this or my large variety above mentioned, and all three identical 



