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in Cornwall, Ireland, and Scotland,* and its sparing occurrence in the 

 Channel Islands. Even in the Isle of Wight, in those parts where it 

 does occur and that not sparingly, its distribution is manifestly more 

 sporadic than on the mainland and interior, the plants growing single 

 or few together in one spot, not weighing down the hedges with an 

 impenetrable matting of stems and foliage for yards together as we 

 often see it doing in its inland stations. The abundance of this plant 

 on Longwood Warren, near Winchester, is truly remarkable ; it is 

 there seen trailing like cucumber-vines over the dry stony groundj in 

 the most open and exposed parts of that elevated and desolate tract, 

 and even when growing amongst the clumps of bushes that partially 

 clothe its naked and sterile surface, seems to disdain availing itself of 

 their aid to indulge its usual habit of climbing. Called mandrake 

 universally in the Isle of Wight. The dull scarlet berries have the 

 most sickening fcetor of any plant I am acquainted with. 



Montia fontanel. Very common in the county and island in wet 

 places, on damp arable land, &c. The larger variety, (3. major, M. 

 rivularis, Gmel. ? in drains and ditches occasionally. 



Herniaria glabra. Sandy shores, Portsmouth ; Marty n. This I 

 have not yet seen in or from its alleged localities. 



Scleranthus annum. Plentiful in corn-fields and dry waste places 

 all over the county and Isle of Wight. 



Tillcea muscosa. Sandy barren heaths ; rare. Abundantly near 

 Stoney Cross, in the New Forest, along the sides of the road by the 

 inn and elsewhere ; Mr.. Hussey ! This curious and minute plant 

 abounds about Poole, in Dorsetshire, and will probably be found to 

 inhabit the conterminous parts of this county not uncommonly if 

 specially looked for. 



Sedum Telephium, L. ? In woods, thickets, on shady hedge-banks 

 and grassy margins of fields. Decidedly rare in the Isle of Wight, 

 where I find it only on banks and borders of fields at Pound Green, 

 in Freshwater, but in some plenty, also near Ashey very sparingly. 

 More frequent on the mainland. In a wood (Westwood ?) near Net- 

 ley Abbey. At Otterbourne and near Bishop's Waltham. Near a 

 pond on going to Shirley across the fields ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Is 

 this the true S. Telephium of Linnaeus, the Swedish plant having al- 



* The whole of Scotland is prohahly beyond its polar limit, which scarcely exceeds 

 lat. 54° on the European continent, above which (in Sweden and Russia) it is replaced 

 by the more northern and eminently eastern B. alba, erroneously given as an English 

 (Cambridgeshire) species by Martyn. 



