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&c. Common, I believe, throughout the county. Titchfield Com- 

 mon ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Galium uliginosum. In moist, boggy or marshy places, thickets, 

 &c. Plentiful in several localities in the Isle of Wight, but by no 

 means a general species here. Bog at Cockleton, near W. Cowes. 

 Marsh at Freshwater Gate. Willow thickets by Langbridge and 

 Budbridge, and a few other spots. The plant does not turn black in 

 drying like G. palustre. I have no mainland station to record for 

 this species, but cannot suppose it to be wanting or even uncommon 

 in Hants. 



tricorne. In corn-fields and other cultivated land, and in 



dry waste places, common in various parts of the Isle of Wight, and 

 most so in West Medina, where the chalk is more predominant than 

 in East Medina, and the proportion of arable to pasture and woodland 

 much more considerable. About Thorley and Wellow the corn-fields 

 are often quite overrun with it. About Cowes not unfrequent, corn- 

 fields above St. Lawrence and Sandown Bay, at Carisbrook, Bon- 

 church, &c. Very rare about Ryde (on the eocene or tertiary deposit), 

 and not common on the green-sand. Andover, towards Weyhill, 1848. 

 Liphook, Bot. Guide, and doubtless not uncommon in mainland 

 Hants, though I have not received it from my county correspondents. 

 Often, I dare say, passed by for G. Aparine, but easily recognized by 

 the large tuberculate globose fruit, which, suspended from the triple 

 downward- curved pedicels, pretty exactly imitates the three balls as 

 they are seen hanging out over a pawnbroker's shop. Flowers oc- 

 casionally 5-cleft and pentandrous, or trifid and triandrous; styles 

 often two, distinct. 



Aparine. About hedges and fences, in woods, thickets, 



corn-fields and waste ground, abundant everywhere. A very widely- 

 diffused plant over the earth, I have found it apparently indigenous 

 in woods at New Orleans, though thought to have been introduced to 

 America (where it is very common) from the Old World. The herb, 

 chopped small, is given to goslins in this island. G. anglicum, G. 

 Vaillantii, and G. erectum may all be reasonably expected in this is- 

 land and county, the last I more than once imagined I had found 

 here, as did my friend Dr. T. Bell Salter, but I believe it was only a 

 small erect form of G. Mollugo, which is not uncommon in dry, 

 chalky pastures and bushy places. I do not, I confess, understand 

 that plant, which appears to me, both in description, plate (in E. B.) 

 and specimens, to approach much too near to G. Mollugo to be satis- 

 factory. A specimen of G. boreale was shown to me last summer, at 



