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though not without some uncertainty, as a synonym and figures of the 

 island plant. C. glutinosum, Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. alt. p. 132 ? 

 Reichenb. Iconogr. Bot. ii. t. 181, fig. 315, 316? (C. semidecandrum 

 of that author). In my Ryde specimen of C. tetrandrum the mem- 

 branaceous margins of the sepals vary extremely in breadth, even on 

 the same plant, they are mostly broader on the alternate segments, at 

 one time very wide, at another nearly or quite obsolete. Flowers by 

 far most frequently four-cleft, with four stamens and as many styles, 

 sometimes five-cleft, with five stamens, and four-cleft on the same 

 plant ; whilst not unfrequently I find four-cleft flowers with five sta- 

 mens and only four styles. Certainly the bracts are not scarious in 

 any of my specimens of C. tetrandrum, as Mr. J. Woods has well re- 

 marked in his tour in Brittany,* which I presume Mr. Babington 

 means to express by the term "herbaceous." My own impression after 

 much careful investigation is, that C. tetrandrum is a dwarf maritime 

 state of C. semidecandrum, which last may itself, as Mr. W. Wilson 

 suggests, prove to be a modification of C. viscosum (C. triviale), as it 

 is difficult to assign a character to the one which is not occasionally 

 assumed by the other. An extremely humble plant of this genus, 

 not an inch high, with four- (rarely five-) cleft flowers, spreading in 

 the form of a cross, grows profusely on our downs and short pastures, 

 which are quite enamelled with it in the spring, and this I have been 

 in the habit of calling, I know not with what propriety, C. tetran- 

 drum, though probably quite as near to any of the others we have 

 been speaking of. 



Malva moschata, add, Common at Appleshaw. Not unfrequent 

 at Selborne. 



Hypericum hirsutum. Extremely uu d ant in woods and thickets 

 in various parts of the Isle of Wight and mainland, especially on the 

 chalk. 



elodes, add, Profusely in the boggy parts of Short Heath, 



at Oakhanger, near Selborne. 



Geranium pratense, add, Plentifully along the banks of the brook 

 and in damp meadows adjacent betwixt the Priory Farm and Oak- 

 hanger, near Selborne, following the winding of the stream for nearly 

 half a mile, and still partially in bloom, September 17th, 1848. Ob- 

 served in a few other places about Selborne. 



Radiola millegrana, add, On Short Heath, near Selborne. Wol- 

 mer Forest. In cart-ruts on Parley Heath ; Mr. Curtis. 



* Hooker's Comp. to Bot. Mag. ii. p. 263. 



