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what may be expected from farther research in a field so fertile and 

 full of future promise, and to solicit their continued co-operation in 

 collecting materials for an enlarged and descriptive flora already far 

 advanced towards completion, the result of several years' assiduous 

 observation and research. 



Anemone nemorosa. Profusely in woods, thickets, and on hedge- 

 banks in the island and county, the flowers often deep purple or rose- 

 red, and occasionally semidouble. A. Pulsatilla should be looked for 

 on the downs along the northern limits of the county. 



Ranunculus sceleratus. In wet places throughout the county and 

 island, but certainly one of the rarer species, in the latter at least, 

 though generally diffused, occuring at wide intervals, and seldom in 

 abundance on any single station. R. Ficaria, Flammula, acris, repens, 

 and bulbosus abound over the entire county and Isle of Wight. 



Caltha palustris. Common in the island and county, in wet or 

 boggy meadows, thickets, and by streams, &c. 



Helleborus viridis, add, In the deep stony lane on the left hand 

 just before the turning to Norton Farm (Selborne), and at the top of 

 Middle Dorton, under the hedge, Rev. G. White. I searched for the 

 plant in the former place many years ago, and again this summer, 

 without finding a vestige of it, and attribute its disappearance to the 

 wearing away of the loose rocky soil forming the perpendicular sides 

 of the curious hollow way in question, which must have undergone 

 great changes since White's time from the action of the elements. I 

 came, however, quite unexpectedly upon the species in what I have 

 little doubt is White's other station at the upper part of Great 

 (Middle ?) Dorton (beech hanger), in a thick covert of briars and 

 brambles, as truly wild and sequestered a spot as could well be re- 

 quired by the most inveterate contender against the claim of this spe- 

 cies to be called native. A solitary specimen I found several years 

 ago in St. John's Wood, at Ryde ; but have never detected it since 

 in any part of this island. 



fcetidus, add, In considerable plenty in rough, stony 



pasture-ground about St. Lawrence and Woolverton, Isle of Wight, 



that paper may be judged of from the large number of genera and species that I have 

 been enabled to erase from the list of desiderata there given, in just one year from the 

 date of publication in this journal. The value and amount of these can be readily 

 seen by comparison of the two lists of the then unknown and unrecorded plants above 

 referred to with the present catalogue of ascertained natives. 



