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appressed spinules, too, are quite wanting to this species. Stem 

 rough throughout. Outer rays of the umbellets* longer than the ripe 

 fruit. 



Torilis infesta. An abundant and troublesome weed, as its speci- 

 fic name implies, in most parts of the county and Isle of Wight, in 

 waste and cultivated land, by way-sides, and especially in cornfields, 

 which are too often seen filled with it, to the discredit of the careless 

 and slovenly farmer. Most prevalent on clay, and hence much too 

 plentiful on our stiff wheat lands about Ryde and the entire north 

 side of the island, where the eocene are the prevailing deposits. 

 Stem smooth and polished below ; outer rays of the umbellets shorter 

 than the mature fruit. 



nodosa. In dry, waste places, on banks, under walls, by 



way-sides, borders of fields, and amongst corn, by no means uncom- 

 mon in the county and island, especially on chalk or gravel. Abun- 

 dant on banks and earthen fences at Bonchurch, Ventnor, and in 

 corn-fields at St. Lawrence. Extremely common in Freshwater parish, 

 about Yarmouth, also about Ryde, Cowes, and in most parts of the 

 island pretty frequent. At Andover, Lymington, Clanfield and else- 

 where on the mainland, generally dispersed. The variety with the 

 interior fruit of the umbel wholly granulato-tuberculate is the only 

 form I have met with in Hampshire hitherto. It is said, however, to 

 occur with all the fruit prickly ; here it is only the outer hemicarps 

 of the exterior fruit which are spiny, the inner hemicarps resembling 

 those of the interior of the umbel in being simply tuberculated. 



Scandix Pecten -veneris. An abundant weed everywhere through- 

 out the county and Isle of Wight, in cultivated land, on fences and 

 hedge-banks, &c. The " crow needles " of our rustics and shepherd 

 boys. 



Anthriscus sylvestris. In moist shady places, meadows, orchards, 

 groves, hedges, &c, everywhere most abundantly. 



X Cerefolium. A specimen of this, the garden chervil, is 



in the herbarium of the late Mrs. Robinson, of Fareham, gathered 

 near that place. I once found it under the wall of a garden at Ryde, 

 from which I ascertained it to have escaped, and it has since disap- 

 peared. I have collected it in a pretty well naturalized state at Farn- 



* I here adopt the term umbellets from my excellent friend Dr. Darlington, of 

 West Chester, Pennsylvania, in preference to umbellules, as being more congenial in 

 the termination to the structure of the English language, and much superior to par- 

 tial umbels in neatness, brevity and precision. 



