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quency in proportion as we advance westward. In the south-western 

 counties of England and in Wales it is already rare, and extremely 

 so in Ireland, and in the equally maritime climate of Scotland. 



Rhamnus Frangula. In damp and sterile woods, thickets and heathy 

 ground in very many places, and perhaps general over the entire 

 county. Plentiful in woods about Bishop's Waltham, Botley and 

 Fareham. Near Southton. Very abundant in some parts of the 

 Isle of Wight near the coast, as well as inland ; being a much more 

 gregarious shrub than the last, it forms a considerable part of the 

 brush or " rice " in the woods, and sometimes attains a height of ten 

 or even twelve feet, and is by no means devoid of beauty. I do not 

 remember ever to have seen it on the chalk, and here it is generally 

 an evidence of a poor, unprofitable, or ill-drained soil. 



XJlex europcBUS. In vast profusion on heaths, commons, and in 

 woods all over the county and island, and which are lighted up by it 

 in April and May with one blaze of golden splendour. It was this 

 plant, and not the broom, as Mr. Gardiner, in his ' Flora of Forfar- 

 shire ' represents, that incited the immortal Swedish naturalist to the 

 ecstatic genuflexion recorded of him. The latter is a native of Swe- 

 den, and Linnaeus must have been familiar with it in his tour through 

 Scania, as indeed appears from his mention of it in the ' Itur Scani- 

 cum.' Seeds very variable in number, from three or four, to ten or 

 twelve, though usually about ten, as Mr. Babington remarks ; not all 

 perfected. 



nanus. Very common on heaths, &c, flowering in autumn, 



in the Isle of Wight, and I presume through the county, yet I cannot 

 satisfy myself that it is truly distinct from the foregoing. 



Genista tincloria. Abundant in many parts of the Isle of Wight, 

 the pastures being sometimes quite yellow with it. I have not no- 

 ticed its degree of frequency in the county at large, but believe it to 

 be generally common. Hayling Island. 



anglica. In moory pastures and wet, spongy bogs, not 



rare in the Isle of Wight. About Southton. On Petersfield Heath 

 and various other parts of the county. 



Sarothamnus scoparius. Abundant in woods, copses, and rough, 

 bushy pastures throughout the county and island, often attaining to a 

 large size, ten, twelve, or fourteen feet, with a trunk as thick as the 

 arm. I once picked it with white flowers, in Sandown Bay, Isle of 

 Wight. 



Ononis arvensis. Extremely common. A variety with very shaggy 

 stems and leaves grows in considerable plenty on Ryde Down at its 

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