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locality. It is a prize that must be seized and registered, or it may 

 elude observation again for a lifetime. 



Peplis Portula. Very common in the county and island in 

 ditches, drains and on wet commons. Plentiful on Petersfield Heath 

 along with Isnardia palustris, and from its similarity in habit and ge- 

 neral appearance to that plaut, is apt to impede the ready detection 

 of the latter when sought for by persons previously unacquainted 

 with it. Abundant on Short Heath, near Selborne, and on Wolmer 

 Forest. The stem of the water purslane is made up of four tubes 

 united around a central cord. 



Ceratophyllum demersum f I recollect perfectly to have seen 

 this or C. submersum in great plenty in the comity a few years ago, 

 I think in the river Test or Anton, below Romsey, but the exact lo- 

 cality has escaped me, not having been noted at the time. Heron 

 Court, near Christchurch, Mr. Curtis, in Brit. En torn, {cum icone). 

 In all likelihood not rare on mainland Hants, but the genus appears 

 wanting in the Isle-of-Wight flora, in common with many other 

 aquatics. 



Epilobium angustifolium. Quite a frequent Hampshire plant in 

 woods, thickets, on banks and in plantations, often in great quantity 

 together. In vast profusion in the woods at Chawton Park, near 

 Alton, especially in the valley betwixt the noble beech-hangers going 

 from Beech Farm towards Meadsted, the sloping sides of which are 

 literally covered with it, whilst the species is scattered over that wide 

 domain for some hundreds of acres, May, 1848.* Abundant in va- 

 rious places about West Meon, particularly in newly cleared copses. 

 Betwixt East Meon and Clanfield. Between Petersfield and Lang- 

 rish, and along the S. W. railway, betwixt Winton and Bishopstoke, 

 in both places sparingly. Plentiful at Selborne ; Dr. T. Bell Salter!!! 

 In great abundance on the west side of Boscombe Chine, near Bourn- 

 mouth ; Mr. Curtis. In several parts of the Isle of Wight in plenty, 

 chiefly in boggy willow thickets, but no where occupying large tracts 

 of ground, as on the mainland of the county. It abounds likewise in 

 the adjoining county of Sussex, as in St. Leonard's Forest and near 

 Chichester, &c. ; but it is needless to multiply instances of the occur- 

 rence of a plant which increased and diffused observation has shown 

 to be common in the south, though our earlier floras would make it 



* I do not remember by ibe way ever to have been much more annoyed abroad by 

 mosquitoes than in the dry beech woods at Chawton, about the middle of the last al- 

 most unprecedented hot and cloudless May, and such whacking fellows too! 



