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some unknown, but insuperable bar is opposed by Nature to the 

 spontaneous dissemination of the misletoe over this island, since, 

 where it has been introduced from motives of curiosity, it has not 

 multiplied and dispersed itself in the vicinity. Gathered some six- 

 teen or eighteen years back in a wood at Apse Farm, near Shanklin, 

 on crab and whitethorn, by Mrs. T. Harrington, as I was informed by 

 the lady herself, bnt it cannot now be found there. A very maritime 

 climate, as that of small islands, is possibly adverse to this plant, as 

 it fails in Anglesea, the Western Isles, the Isle of Man ?, the whole of 

 Ireland, and is very rare in Scotland. 



Sambucus Ebulus. In waste ground, about hedges, ruins, by road- 

 sids and in pastures ; very rare in the Isle of Wight, if not in the 

 county generally. In hedges, borders of fields, and even amongst 

 the crops, near St. Catherine's Point, in one place abundantly, also 

 on banks by the road-side to the lighthouse, sparingly. In a large 

 arable field under Ashey Down, a little above Kerne, where it proves 

 extremely troublesome, from the obstruction the tough, creeping roots 

 offer to the plough in its progress over the soil. I am told it grows 

 in one or two other spots near Kerne, but more sparingly. Between 

 Newport and Carisbrook Castle ; Mr. W. D. Snooke. I have never 

 seen it there. Between Luccomb and Bonchurch ; Mr. S. Woods in 

 Bot. Guide !!! and where I found it some years ago in very small 

 quantity, and almost choked with grass and bushes, betwixt Chine 

 Cottage and Rose Cliff. Near Carisbrook Castle, and near Hous- 

 born (Osborne ?) ; Mr. E. Forster, jun. in Bot. Guide. In a field 

 called West Close, on Ford Farm, near Red Hill ; Mr. Wm. Jolliffe. 

 It formerly grew in the orchard at Crooks Cottage, Middleton Green, 

 but has not been seen there for many years. For the county I have 

 but the following station at present : close to the palings near the 

 turnpike at Warnford Park, West Meon ; Miss Hawkins. Meadow 

 adjoining the churchyard at King's Worthy, about two miles and a 

 half from Winton ; Dr. A. D. White. Amongst the rubbish and 

 ruined foundations of the Priory, Selborne ; Rev. G. White. Hedge 

 in Selborne Park; Dr. T. B. Salter in Phytol. i. 1134. Some of 

 these stations have a suspicious appearance, whilst others are appa- 

 rently natural. I believe the Danewort to be a genuine native, but, 

 like Cynoglossum officinale, Atropa Belladonna and some other 

 plants, partial to soils containing nitrate of potash, thus accounting 

 for its frequent appearance about churchyards, ruins, and similar 

 places where that salt abounds, without supposing it to have been 

 originally introduced by man's agency. 



