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though I took much pains to discover both flower and fruit. More 

 lately it has been found in a second Hampshire station, by Mr. 

 Borrer, its original discoverer, or rather rediscoverer in this country, 

 namely, in a pool a little way out of Brockenhurst, towards Lynd- 

 hurst, growing with Nymphaea alba and other aquatics, but of more 

 difficult access than at Peters field !!! A somewhat practised eye is 

 required to detect the Isnardia in its native swamps, even where it is 

 known to exist ; for the stems, immersed in water, and half hidden 

 amongst the other herbage, may be overlooked for Peplis Portula, or 

 some state of a Potamogeton ; it is hardly to be wondered at, there- 

 fore, that it should so long have escaped notice, whilst, shrouded un- 

 der a cumbrous and obsolete diagnostic phrase rather than a name,* 

 its occurrence in England was not even suspected. This is assuredly 

 a beautiful, though not a showy, plant ; the lucid, transparent green 

 of its leaves, harmoniously blending with suffusions of the richest 

 olive brown and bright red veined with crimson, can hardly find a 

 parallel in any other indigenous vegetable of our land. On the con- 

 tinent of Europe and in America, Isnardia palustris and Leersia ory- 

 zoides have the same geographical distribution, and these seem good 

 grounds for believing that the like will be found to hold true in this 

 country. The latter will probably reward a diligent search in our 

 Hampshire waters, and should be looked for in the localities pointed 

 out in this journal (Phytol. ii. p. 1003). In Sussex it has lately been 

 detected by Mr. Mitten, in a second station many miles remote from 

 the original one at Henfield, namely, in Little Ease mill-pond, near 

 Cuckfield, where Mr. Borrer kindly showed it to me, growing 

 amongst reeds, early in the present month (October), the panicle, as 

 usual, wholly included within the sheath. 



CirccBa lutetiana. Plentiful in various parts of the county and 

 Isle of Wight, in damp, shady places, woods, &c. 



Myriophyllum verticillatum. Ponds and ditches, rare ? In ditches 

 communicating with the Avon, near Sopley ; Dr. Pulteney in Hamp. 

 Rep. Southampton Canal, by Millbrook ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Not 

 found in the Isle of Wight. 



spicatum. Abundant in the marsh ditches of San- 

 down Level and elsewhere in the Isle of Wight. Near Hill Head ; 

 Mi*. W. L. Notcutt. About Winchester, and frequent I believe over 

 the county. 



* Anagallis aquatica flove parvo viridi caule rubra. " In a great ditch neer the 

 Moor, at Petersfiekl, Hamshire." Mr. Goodyer, Merrelt's Pinax, p. 7. 



