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called rare. In a pool betwixt Ryde and Brading, ditches near 

 Sandown, and a few other places. On Short Heath Oakhanger, 

 near Selborne, and probably not uncommon in the county generally. 



Epilobium virgainm. Dr. Salter informs me that specimens pro- 

 nounced by Mr. Babington to be this real or imaginary species have 

 been collected in the Isle of Wight. 



tetragonnm. Extremely common in the county and island, 



in ditches, moist woods, hedges, &c. 



roseum. Rare? Selborne ; Dr. T. Bell Salter !!! Dr. S. 



remarks that this plant is usually found in cultivated ground, gardens, 

 &c, but that about Selborne it is perfectly agrestal, growing on 

 Short Heath, in sandy ground along the streams, as well as in the 

 shady lanes about the village. 



N. B. — (Enothera biennis? occurs occasionally in waste ground, 

 about gardens, and in fields adjacent to them, but is nowhere, so far 

 as I know, permanently established in the county or island. I have 

 great doubts if the species so denominated be always the American 

 plant which passes under the name on that continent, and which has 

 smaller flowers than the naturalized outcast which we call biennis. 

 The species of evening-primrose are very liable to variation even in 

 their native region. 



Isnardia palmtris. Abundant in certain seasons in marshy spots 

 and plashes, into which expands at intervals the shallow channel or 

 drain for the superabundant water of the great pond on Petersfield 

 Heath on its eastern side, in which neighbourhood (for it does not 

 seem to be the identical station with the modern one) it was noticed 

 nearly three centuries agoHby John Goodyer, of Maple Durham,* a 

 Hampshire botanist of much zeal and acuteness, and rediscovered 

 about a dozen years back in its present station, by Miss Rickman 

 and J. Barton, Esq. In dry summers it would appear the plant is 

 rarely to be found, and for several seasons I sought it, like others, 

 unsuccessfully, but in the past and very moist summer of 1848, it was 

 again plentiful on the wettest parts of the heath along the course of 

 the channel above described, though the finest specimens were only 

 to be got at by wading ancle-deep in mud and water, and these lux- 

 uriant examples very seldom bore flowers ; indeed, I could find 

 scarcely any in that state, when at Petersfield in July and September, 



* Maple Durham is an ancient tenement, once a religious house, two miles from 

 Petersfield, on the Portsmouth road, in the parish of Buriton, and must not be con- 

 founded with the place of the same name in Oxfordshire, or with Maple Durwell, 

 near Basingstoke, in this county. 



