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it with Gartner, whose figures are but indifferent, as one-celled. 

 Other authors justly consider it as four-celled, the four angles of the 

 placenta being very evidently prolonged into complete, though very 

 narrow dissepiments. The square mass occupying the centre, and to 

 the top of which the seeds are attached, is quite distinct from their 

 pulpy envelope, and as much entitled to be called a placenta as in 

 any dry or capsular fruit whatever. This curious plant is perhaps as 

 nearly allied to Saxifragacese and Caprifoliaceae as to the present or- 

 der (Araliacese). Its relation to Chrysosplenium is obvious. 



Hedera Helix. On old walls, rocks, trees and hedges, most abun- 

 dantly. In no part of Britain, or elsewhere perhaps, is the ivy to be 

 seen in greater profusion and luxuriance than in this island, and 

 could the amount of surface covered by it be determined, it would 

 probably be found to exceed that occupied*by any other native plant, 

 the common meadow grasses not excepted. The glory of the Under- 

 cliff, whose crags and rocky boundary walls are mantled with its gar- 

 niture of green in lavish exuberance, contributing, with Scolopen- 

 drium vulgare, Iris foetidissima and Rubia peregrina, to the perennial 

 verdure of that vast and romantic terrace. 



Cornus sanguined. Woods, thickets and hedges, all over the 

 county and island in great abundance, constituting a considerable 

 per centage of the ligneous vegetation, flourishing in nearly every soil 

 and situation alike. Usually with us a slender shrub, but sometimes 

 a small tree, twelve or fifteen feet high, with a single trunk of several 

 inches diameter. 



Viscum album. Not rare, I believe, on mainland Hants, though I 

 have but few actual stations to record for a plant so generally fre- 

 quent in the south-east of England as not usually to attract attention 

 to its special places of growth. Hants ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin in * New 

 Botanist's Guide.' Cams Park, and at Southwick, near Fareham; at 

 the latter place plentifully ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Hurstbourne Park, 

 the seat of Lord Portsmouth, near Whitchurch, abundantly ; Miss O. 

 Hadfield ! At Hursley, plentiful in and about the park on crab and 

 hawthorn ; Mr. Wm. Whale ! Bishopstoke ; the Dean of Winches- 

 ter. Frequent, I believe, in the New Forest. Not found in the Isle 

 of Wight in a native state, at least in the present day, a curious fact 

 in the geography of the species, as the country is one to all appear- 

 ance admirably suited to its production, abounding, as it does, with 

 all the trees to which this parasite is most attached. Reiterated in- 

 quiries of the country people, who uniformly deny its existence, and 

 fruitless personal search for several years, have convinced me that 



