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a well naturalized plant in several parts of the kingdom. The wood 

 in question abounds with Colchicuni autumnale, and produces Aqui- 

 legia vulgaris, Vicia sylvatica and other good plants, whilst the 

 picturesque village of Appleshaw, with its long lines of stately walnut 

 trees, is well worthy of a visit from the lovers of rural beauty and re- 

 tirement. 



Lonicera Periclymenum. In woods, hedges, thickets, on rocks 

 and old walls throughout the county and island most abundantly, 

 filling the air along our green lanes and bye roads with the grateful 

 perfume from its flowering coronals of white, crimson, or golden yel- 

 low. The variety with sinuate leaves (oak-leaved honeysuckle) is not 

 very uncommon in our woods, and I think with the authors of the 

 ' Flora Hertfordiensis,' is probably a mere accidental variation in the 

 straight succulent shoots, either natural or produced by the bill of the 

 woodman in clearing the brush, as I do not remember ever to have 

 remarked such leaves on the older flowering shoots. The leaves of 

 this plant are sometimes with us perfectly glabrous on both sides, and 

 a little shining, but more commonly finely pubescent underneath. 



N.B. — L. Xylosteum should be looked for in dry, hilly copses on 

 the chalk in the east and north of the county. I have gathered it 

 truly wild and most abundant in upland woods at Amberley, in Sus- 

 sex, where it was first discovered by Mr. Borrer.* Though a shrub 

 of a decidedly eastern and continental tendency, it has been found in 

 several parts of England, and even in Forfarshire according to Mr. 

 Gardiner. It ranges over Europe, especially the northern parts, to 

 lat. 60° — 63 g , but is rare in the western and maritime countries of 

 the continent. 



Sherardia arvensis. Extremely common in waste and cultivated 

 places, corn-fields, fallows, woods, &c. all over the county and Isle 

 of Wight, on dry, light soils. 



Asperula cynanchica. On dry, open, hilly pastures, heaths and 

 banks; abundantly in the chalk districts, on the high downs and at 

 the sea level. Very fine on banks at Ventnor, profusely about Caris- 



* In one of these high, hill-side copses, which Mr. Borrer does not seem to have 

 known of, I found many very stout stems of the fly honeysuckle, evidently of great 

 age, the brushwood in some parts mainly consisting of this shrub. An old farmer 

 who was watching my proceedings from a gate a great distance below, as I afterwards 

 found, to induce me to buy or rent the land of him a bargain as an eligible building 

 investment, told me he had long intended grubbing up the copse, but refrained from 

 so doing at the instance of his son, who wished it preserved for the amusement of 

 rabbit shooting. 



