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and I have no doubt indigenous. On a sloping chalk-bank above the 

 Crab and Lobster Inn at Ventnor, possibly introduced. No one who 

 has witnessed the glorious profusion of this handsome evergreen in 

 the profound solitudes and deep recesses of our majestic beech woods 

 can, I think, reasonably hesitate to admit its right to rank amongst 

 our undisputed natives. This is the commoner of our two British 

 species in the south of England, as H. viridis seems to be in the 

 north. The latter abounds in some parts of Yorkshire, where both 

 Mr. Borrer and the Rev. G. E. Smith consider it as truly wild, and 

 my opinion is now in favour of its being equally so in Hants, though 

 less general and abundant than farther to the northward. It is like- 

 wise the more prevalent species in Germany, where H. fcetidus is rare, 

 except towards the south in the Tyrol and the coasts of the Adriatic, 

 its evergreen character unfitting it probably for the severe winters of 

 an interior climate from which the deciduous nature of H. viridis pro- 

 tects the latter. 



Nympluea alba, add, Plentiful in the Lymington river above Hay- 

 ward Mill. 



Papaver Rhceas, var. /3. strigosum, Bonningh (Prod. Fl. Monast. p. 

 157). Stem more branched near the root, hairs fewer, those on the 

 peduncles appressed (excepting immediately below the flower), cap- 

 sules rather less globose. Near Brading, Dr. T. B. Salter ! Probably 

 a hybrid betwixt P. Rhoeas and dubium, which both abound in that 

 neighbourhood. The P. intermedium of Beeker (Fl. der Gegend um 

 Frankfort am M.) is doubtless a similar mule production wanting 

 only the appressed hairs on the peduncles. 



Glaucium luteum. Varies, as Mr. Pamplin has remarked to me, 

 on the Hampshire coast, with flowers inclining to orange or tawny, like 

 the G. fulvum of the gardens. Hayling Island, &c. 



N. B. — Corydalis solida was omitted in the former part of these 

 Notes, because I hear from the Dean of Winchester that it is no 

 longer to be found at Wickham, as recorded on his authority in the 

 'English Flora.' The station I think the Dean told me was the site of 

 an old garden, and of course inadmissible. C. lutea is found here 

 and there subspontaneous on old walls, but too sparingly and imper- 

 fectly established to find a place with propriety as a naturalized deni- 

 zen of the Hampshire Flora. 



Fumaria officinalis. Very frequent. A shadow of suspicion has 

 been cast on the indigenous origin of the fumitory, in common with 

 other weeds that usually affect cultivated ground, or are chiefly found 

 following the footsteps of man. I however remarked the present spe- 



