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white flowers in a clover-field near Wellow, 1840. Var. &. Smooth, 

 all the leaves undivided, Isle of Wight, E. K., Loudon's Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist. i. p. 83. Var. y. All the florets of the centre equal to those of 

 the circumference. Banks at Ventnor and corn-fields near St. Law- 

 rence ; Mr. Wm. W. Saunders, 1841!!! Called gipsy or Egyptian 

 rose in this island, a name applied also, I believe, to the common gar- 

 den scabious (Scabiosa atropurpurea). 



Scabiosa succisa. In rather moist woods, meadows, and heathy 

 pastures, most abundantly. These are often empurpled with its 

 azure flowerets, unwelcome in their beauty as the earliest but surest 

 token, that whilst nature wears yet an aspect green and fair, the noon- 

 tide prime of the year has departed, and that ere long the " sere and 

 yellow leaf" will give true but timely warning of the " dim declining 

 days " that must succeed its fall. Faithful to the advent of this silent 

 monitor, the great green locust (Acrida viridissima) begins to herald 

 the approach of autumn with his shrill note of preparation, feebly at 

 first, and solitary, till later, every hedge is resonant the live long 

 night with the ceaseless, responsive chirp of the invisible choristers. 



columbaria. On dry, and especially chalky banks and 



pastures ; scarcely a common species in the Isle of Wight, though 

 abundant enough in many places both here and on the mainland. 

 About Carisbrook, frequent on the chalk about Appuldercombe, at 

 Ventnor, Bonchurch, &c. Sloping banks above the Culver Cliff, 

 Saudown Bay. Everywhere on dry slopes about Swainston, Row- 

 ledge, Westover, &c, often with lilac flowers. Maindell chalk-pit, 

 near Fareham ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Wheely Down, near West 

 Meon ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. Andover ; Mr. Wm. Whale. 



Eupatorium cannabinum. By rivers and ditches, in moist woods, 

 hedges and other damp or marshy situations, extremely common 

 everywhere. Remarkable as the only representative of the genus in 

 Europe out of so many species inhabiting America, to few or none of 

 which is it inferior in size or appearance. Sometimes (from the co- 

 lour of its flowers ?) called raspberries and cream in this island. 



Petasites vulgaris. Pobably a frequent, if not a common plant on 

 the mainland of Hampshire, although not found in the Isle of Wight. 

 Plentiful at Bishopstoke, by the river side near the church. Chrys- 

 tal Abbey, about a mile from St. Mary Bourne, on the Hurstbourne 

 road, in great profusion ; Miss Hadfield ! Abundant about Winches- 

 ter; Dr. A. D. White. Andover; Mr. Wm. Whale. 



N. B. — Nardosmia fragrans [Tussilago fragrans) is naturalized in 

 various parts of the county and island by streams and on moist 



