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with the G. molle, (3. equate, of Babington's Manual ? Another but 

 very small flowered variety, with petals scarcely longer than the 

 calyx, and more deeply cut leaves, approaching G. pusillum, and 

 hardly distinguishable from it but on close examination of the stamens 

 and carpels, I have found occasionally in the island, but very rarely. 



Geranium rotundifolium. In rough, rocky pastures and thickets 

 about St. Lawrence and Woolverton, Isle of Wight, plentifully, but 

 not noticed elsewhere either in the island or on the mainland so far 

 as I can learn. 



dissectum. Extremely common and often most abundant 



throughout the Isle of Wight and county generally, on dry bank- 

 hedges and waste places ; very rarely the flowers are white with us. 



columbinum. Dry banks, woods, and copses, abundantly 



in several parts of the Isle of Wight, but not general. Between An- 

 dover and Weyhill. 



— lucidum. In various parts of the county and Isle of 



Wight, on dry rocky or chalky banks and walls, but by no means 

 common, though usually plentiful enough where found. Hedge-banks 

 a little way out of Petersfield, towards Stroud Common. This very 

 pretty Geranium is said to be extremely rare in the adjoining county 

 of Sussex. 



Robertianum. Everywhere plentiful in damp, shady 



places, occasionally with white flowers. The var. /3. purpureum 

 abounds on the flat shore of Stokes Bay, and near the Priory, Isle of 

 Wight. 



Erodium cicutarium. Common on dry, sandy ground and banks, 

 particularly along the coast, here and there with white flowers. 



t? moschatum. Pastures and borders of fields. Found a 



few years back near Yarmouth, by Mr. Butler, of the Bugle Inn, but 

 since searched for unsuccessfully on the station, which looked like a 

 wild one. I have it, as gathered near the same town, in a list of 

 plants of the island lately received, but have never met with it wild 

 in the county myself, or seen Hampshire specimens. 



marltimum. Dry banks and pastures by the sea in the 



Isle of Wight, but very rare. Brook Chine. Abundant at Alum Bay, 

 along the descent to the beach, and especially plentiful and luxuriant 

 about the mouths of the rabbit-burrows. I do not know of any main- 

 land Hampshire station for this plant. 



%Linu?n usitatissimum. Fields: accidentally introduced, scarcely 

 even naturalized. I found it August 8th, 1843, in some plenty in a 

 field opposite Cliff farm, by Shanklin, along with L. angustifolium, 



