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leaves are drawn of the usual tenuity, and the bracts obovate. That 

 figure, if correct, represents M. alterniflorum, which, though accu- 

 rately distinguished by Petiver, was lost sight of as a species by suc- 

 ceeding English botanists, and confounded with the very distinct M. 

 spicatum. 



Sison Amomum. Still more frequent than Petroselinum segetum 

 (formerly referred to this genus), even to profusion, on banks, along 

 hedges, road-sides, and borders of fields, but though often associated 

 with that species, seldom straying with it into cultivated ground. 

 Plentiful on hedge-banks in most of the suburban streets and out- 

 skirts of Kyde. Abundant about Yarmouth, and in various other 

 parts of the Isle of Wight, as well as on the mainland of Hants. 

 Nore Hill and Temple, near Selborne ; Professor Bell ! About 

 Southampton, West Meon, in Hayling Island, &c. Called spikenard 

 by the country people of Hants ; Miss L. Sibley. 



t? JEgopodium Podagraria. Scarcely to be called rare, but not 

 very common, at least in the Isle of Wight, on damp hedge-banks 

 and in orchards ; seldom found remote from habitations, and yet I 

 cannot but think it truly indigenous, from its universality in the 

 country, its power of occupancy, and its analogy to certain other 

 plants that, like the dog amongst animals, follow the footsteps and 

 affect the haunts of man in all climates alike in which they are found, 

 and flourish in places not more sequestered than these. Widely dis- 

 persed over the county, \ find it at Andover, Winton, Selborne, Oak- 

 hanger, Bordean, and other places. Less plentiful, I think, with us 

 than in the north of England and Lowlands of Scotland, nor does it 

 here perfect its fruit freely. 



Bunium Jiexuosum. Abundant in meadows, pastures, and copses 

 all over the county and Isle of Wight. B. Bulbocastanum may pos- 

 sibly occur on the chalk, in the north-eastern part of the county. 



Pimpinella Saxifraga. Abundant in its several forms with the 

 last, and equally universal. P. magna may reasonably be looked for 

 it the county in woods and thickets. 



Slum latifolium. Ditches and ponds ; rare ? Near Fording- 

 bridge ; Dr. Maton in Bot. Guide. In the Stour, at Heron Court, 

 near Christchurch, Mr. Curtis in litt. (Icon, in Brit. Entom. ex loco). 

 Unknown in the Isle of Wight, but probably not very unfrequent in 

 the county, though I have as yet only the above two stations to re- 

 cord for it. 



angustifolium. Ditches and ponds ; rare ? Certainly very 



scarce in the Isle of Wight. In ditches on Easton Marsh Freshwa- 



