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banks ; but species that, like this, maintain their ground solely by 

 their creeping roots and not by seed, can hardly, I think, be admitted 

 with propriety even into the ranks of denizens. 



Tussilago Farfara. In moist fields, pastures, waste and arable 

 ground, extremely troublesome and abundant on our stiff clay soils, 

 on the north side of the Isle of Wight, and covering the wet banks of 

 slipped clay along the entire line of coast where those formations pre- 

 vail. Common in all parts of the mainland. 



Aster Tripolium. On muddy sea-shores and in salt-marshes ; not 

 uncommon in the Isle of Wight. Ditches on Ryde Dover and about 

 Springfield. Salt-marshes at Newtown, Yarmouth, and muddy shores 

 at Brading, Wootton Bridge and elsewhere, frequent, and occasionally 

 with the rays partially or entirely wanting. Common on most parts 

 of the Hampshire coast at Havant, Emsworth, Fareham, in Hayling 

 Island, &c, &c. 



Erigerort acris. On dry, barren fields, banks and pastures ; not at 

 all unfrequent in the Isle of Wight, though scarcely to be called a 

 common plant. In various places near Hyde, Newport, Cowes, Yar- 

 mouth, &c, very widely dispersed, and occasionally in profuse abun- 

 dance. I have seen a dry, hilly pasture, which in summer is resonant 

 with the shrill chirping of the field-cricket {Acheta campestris) be- 

 tween Apse and Ninham farms, near Shanklin, quite covered with it. 

 Probably not uncommon over the county. Maindell chalk-pit, the 

 Salterns, near Fareham ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Bellis perennis. Enamels our meadows, pastures and banks in la- 

 vish profusion. 



Solidago Virgaurea. Plentiful in woods, groves, on hedge-banks, 

 heaths and commons in most parts of the Isle of Wight, and I believe 

 of the county generally. In Quarr Copse, Binstead, &c. Like Eupa- 

 torium cannabinum, the sole representative of its genus in Britain, if 

 not in Europe, and as variable in its character as any of the species, 

 which, with those of Aster, its close ally, are the opprobrium of Ame- 

 rican botanists, just as the brambles, willows and roses are stumbling- 

 blocks to our botanists at home. 



Inula Helenivm. Truly wild in moist meadows, pastures, woods, 

 about the borders of fields, by stream-sides, and amongst bushes, in 

 very many parts of the Isle of Wight. Rare about Ryde, at Quarr 

 and Binstead, and by a stream in a wood at Haven Street. Rather 

 plentiful at the Bonchurch extremity of the Luccombe landslip (East 

 end) ; Mr. Wm. W. Saunders !!! More common in West than in 

 East Medina. Plentiful in a field by the Medina a little above West 



