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field by the new parsonage house at Sandowu, Isle of Wight, by 

 Miss Lovell, 1848, doubtless introduced, but may likely become na- 

 turalized hereafter ! 



Nasturtium terrestre. Wet places in the Isle of Wight, rare. In 

 several parts of Sandown Level. Pond at Hardingshoot Farm, abun- 

 dant. 



Silene maritima, add, Abundant on the sea-shore about Lyming- 

 ton, and on Hayling island. 



nutans, add, Abundant, if I recollect rightly, on the flat 



shore of Stokes Bay. 



Spergula arvensis. Profusely in cultivated fields. I have remarked 

 this plant to possess a most repulsive stercoraceous odour, not com- 

 monly if at all noticed in books. 



Stellaria media, var. apetala. On the sandy flat below St. Helen's, 

 Isle of Wight. 



W. A. Bromfield. 



Eastmount House, Ryde, 



Isle of Wight, August 1, 1848. 



Notice of J uncus diffusus in Leicestershire. 

 By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, M.A. 



To the Rev. W. H. Coleman is due the credit of the discovery of 

 the above-named species in Leicestershire. 



He finds it in several localities in the neighbourhood of Ashby-de- 

 la-Zouch, and it having been pointed out to me by him in one of 

 these, I have been enabled to recognize it in my own immediate 

 neighbourhood, where it has been verified by him since. I find it in 

 small quantities growing amongst Juncus glaucus, in the road be- 

 tween Twycross and Snarestone, by the side of Gopsal Wood, com- 

 mencing about a quarter of a mile out of Twycross. It is also found 

 in great abundance in a field adjoining the Ashby canal, at the back 

 of Congerstone, a village about two miles distant from Twycross. 

 It may probably be more universally diffused, but hitherto generally 

 overlooked by botanists, as was the case with myself, from its pre- 

 senting, at first sight, so few prominent marks of distinction from 

 other species. 



Andrew Bloxam. 



August 9, 1848. 



