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ways the flowers yellowish green, not purple as in the more southern 

 parts of Europe ? 



%Sedum album, A more than doubtful native of Hants. On the 

 thatched roof of an old house in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, where I 

 have remarked it for several years past, but though perfectly established 

 it cannot of course be deemed indigenous. South Beach, Hay ling 

 Island ; Rev. G. E. Smith : but there are the remains of a garden on 

 the spot it was said to occupy, and the station, which is near the 

 " buildings," is open to suspicion on this last account also. I am not 

 aware of any other or less exceptionable station for this species in 

 the county. When we reflect that the great bulk of the species com- 

 posing this genus inhabit elevated rocks and mountain districts, we 

 cannot be surprised that the few that do accommodate themselves to 

 the plains or inconsiderable altitudes should have the aspect of aliens 

 and interlopers in situations so foreign to their constitution. 



f dasyphyllum. On old walls and roofs, rare; most likely in- 

 troduced originally, and subsequently escaped from cultivation in 

 both, as it certainly is in one of its Isle-of- Wight stations. On Brad- 

 ing Church, and especially on the south porch, with Ceterach ofli- 

 cinarum in plenty ; also on some walls in that ancient but decayed 

 borough, though now almost destroyed by repairs. Abundant on 

 tiled roofs at Alverstone Mill, near Newchurch, doubtless established 

 from the garden of the miller, who has a great taste for horticulture. 

 On the stone walls round the fields at Liphook ; Miss Lovell ! This 

 sounds less suspicious than the foregoing stations, but I have not 

 visited the spot, and doubt if the species be anywhere indigenous to 

 Britain, though completely naturalized in many parts of the kingdom. 



■ anglicum. On most parts of the Hampshire coast in plenty. 



On Ryde Dover, St. Helens, and other places in the Isle of Wight. 

 Abundant on the South Beach, Hayling Island, at Portsmouth, Gos- 

 port, &c. 



acre. Walls, rocks, roofs, and sandy ground ; abundantly. 



This and the preceding are the only two indubitably native Sedums 

 in this island and county. 



t? reflexum. Common on walls, roofs of houses, and ruins 



(rarely and accidentally ? on rocky banks) in the Isle of Wight, and 

 as far as I have remarked frequent in the county generally. Often 

 planted for ornament on cottage roofs. Though perfectly naturalized 

 and spontaneously disseminated, this has not with us the look of an 

 aboriginal production, its proper home being probably on rocks con- 

 siderably above the sea level ; yet excepting perhaps its controverted 



