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nel Islands, will probably be found in this, as it has already been in 

 other counties of England ; but its great resemblance to V. olitoria, 

 from which it is scarcely distinguishable but by its fruit, renders its 

 detection less easy. M. ,de St. Amans (Flore d'Agen, p. 14) makes 

 them varieties, and says he has found the fruit of both on the same 

 plant. Without pretending to decide the point, I incline to the be- 

 lief that V. carinata holds the same relation to V. olitoria as V. Auri- 

 cula does to V. dentata, and that the value of each as distinct species 

 is, to say the least, very problematical. We have only to conceive 

 the two anterior barren cells of V. dentata to become inflated, and 

 consequently gibbous, and then I do not see in what it would differ 

 from V. Auricula. The latter, though till lately overlooked or disre- 

 garded even as a variety, was early noticed by Morison, who de- 

 scribed and figured it in his ' Historia Plantarum,' vol. iii. p. 104, 

 tab. 17, sect. 7, No. 37. 



Dipsacus sylvestris. In moist hedges, wet woods, thickets, and on 

 ditch-banks, extremely common over the whole county and Isle of 

 Wight. In the wet woods about Ryde I have seen this species 

 nearly seven feet high. The flowers expand in successive rings or 

 zones (of a close or compressed spiral) on the large, conical heads, 

 commencing about the middle of each cone, and ending at the base 

 and apex, or by a centripetal progression of development. 



pilosus. In wet hedges and lanes ; an apparently un- 

 common species in mainland Hants, and not found in the Isle of 

 Wight. Selborne as noticed by White, and where I find it plentiful 

 along moist hedge-banks and borders of wet thickets in the valley to- 

 wards Priory. In watery lanes between Hambledon and Wickham ; 

 Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. * By the road- 



* I must here correct a mistake which has been continued through all the preced- 

 ing numbers of these Notes, in attributing, as I was led to do through wrong infor- 

 mation, the list of county plants in the ' Hampshire Repository ' to Dr. Pulteney, 

 whereas the real authors of that list were the present Dean of Winchester (Dr. Gar- 

 nier) and the Rev. Mr. Poulter, late of Warnford, near West Meon, the similarity of 

 whose name to the Dorsetshire botanist and physician's most likely occasioned the 

 latter to be reputed the compiler of the Catalogue by the author of the ' Botanist's 

 Guide.' This information I had from the Dean himself, a short time back, and who 

 kindly corrected another mistake, for which I am wholly responsible. Under the 

 head of Corydalis solida, at p. 336, I mentioned my belief that the Dean (its dis- 

 coverer at Wickham) had formerly told me the station was the site of an old garden, 

 but such was not the case. The plant grew in considerable abundance in the heart 

 of a wood now destroyed, to all appearance perfectly wild. Such being the fact, and 

 this species native to every country of central and northern Europe, France, Germany, 



