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brook Castle and most other parts of the island, and I believe equally 

 common throughout the county. Wheely Down ; Rev. E. M. Slea- 

 den. Maindell chalk-pit, Down-lane, Portsdown ; Mr. W. L. Not- 

 cutt- A charming little plant, of exquisite grace and delicacy when 

 closely contemplated. 



Asperula odorala. In woods, groves, and on shady hedge-banks 

 in various parts of the Isle of Wight and county ; abundantly. Com- 

 mon about Ryde, Cowes, &c. Woods at Selborne, abundantly. 

 Wickham. Mitcheldever Woods ; Rev. D. Cockelton of Bullington. 

 Andover; Mr. Win. Whale. 



Galium cruciatum. In dry woods and thickets, borders of fields, 

 on sunny banks and under walls, very frequent in the Isle of Wight, 

 and I believe as much so in mainland Hants. 



palustre. In pools, ditches and other wet places, abun- 

 dantly ; the var. /3. Witheringii (G. Witheriugii, Sm.) not unfrequent 

 also. 



Mollugo. In hedges, bushy places and borders of woods 



almost everywhere. Abundant all over the Isle of Wight, where our 

 hedge-rows are conspicuously adorned with the copious milk-white 

 flowers in the latter months of summer. Var. (3. ochroleuca ; flowers 

 yellowish or cream-coloured. Field-hedge near Plumbley's (new) 

 Hotel, at Freshwater Gate, in considerable plenty, though confined 

 to one spot, growing with the ordinary white sort and strikingly con- 

 trasting with it, July 7, 1844. I found it with flowers more of a yel- 

 lowish green betwixt Shanklin and Cook's Castle, July 23, 1845, and 

 which my friend Mr. Wm. W. Saunders has remarked betwixt Vent- 

 nor and Bonchurch not nncommonly. In our hedge-rows this plant 

 clambers over the shrubs to the height of many feet, and then is a 

 great bushy branched plant, but in dry, open places and chalky pas- 

 tures, it is much smaller, less ramified and decumbent, when it may 

 be often mistaken for G. erectum, if indeed that species has any se- 

 parate existence as undeniably distinct from G. Mollugo. 



verum. In dry fields, pastures, by road-sides and in loose 



sand of the sea-shore ; abundantly. Plentiful amongst the sandy 

 hillocks on St. Helen's Spit, Isle of Wight, &c. The light airy 

 panicles, with their myriads of tiny golden stars, show doubly beauti- 

 ful by contrast, rising tall and taper amongst the countless snowy 

 blossoms of G. Mollugo on the summit of some grassy bank. 



saxatile. On dry, barren, sandy heaths, commons and 



banks; abundantly. Profusely on Royal Heath, Sandown, and on 

 the earthen fences along the road over Bleak Down from Newport, 



