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is hairy, and scattered hairs are generally present on the stem, though 

 as in other instances, when fully exposed to the action of the sun, it 

 becomes denuded. 



It is remarkable that this bramble is not mentioned by Mr. Borrer 

 in the third edition of Hooker's ' British Flora,' although a specimen 

 under the name of "plicatus" exists in the Smithian herbarium. My 

 acute friend the Rev. A. Bloxam had previously informed me that 

 Mr. Babington's plicatus was identical with my leucostachys, but it 

 is only since Mr. Leighton's published observations in the 'Phytolo- 

 gist' that I have been able to satisfy myself fully, by an examination 

 of Smith's specimens in the Linnean Society's museum. I presume 

 that Dr. Bell Salter's Hampshire nitidus is the same as Mr. Babing- 

 ton's, but his description seems not exactly to coincide with the com- 

 mon plant I am familiar with. R. affinis is really a suberect species, 

 with a very lofty, perfectly smooth stem, and quite distinct from this 

 species. 



Edwin Lees. 



Cedar Terrace, Henwick, Worcester, 

 November 2, 1848. 



Notes and occasional Observations on some of the Rarer British 

 Plants growing Wild in Hampshire. By William Arnold 

 Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 343). 



Lythrum Salicaria. I believe throughout the county in wet places. 

 Frequent about Lymington, Bishopstoke and Southampton. Side of 

 Tichfield River; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Plentiful, but rather local, in 

 the Isle of Wight, in wet willow thickets, meadows, &c. Much more 

 frequent in West than in East Medina. 



liyssopifolium. Gathered, many years ago, in Pan Moor, 



at Newport, Isle of Wight, by Miss E. Kirkpatrick. I have been un- 

 successful in rediscovering this interesting species in the above loca- 

 lity, or in finding it elsewhere within the county, but the caution and 

 accuracy of that lady in determining the plants around her place of 

 residence, and her full conviction on the subject, warrant its insertion 

 here, without the further proof of specimens, of which I have seen 

 none. A plant so fickle and transient in its stations as this, can 

 scarcely be expected to persist through a series of years in the same 



