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along the bay to Shanklin and Yaverland. Near Lake, Apse, Wal- 

 pen and Hardingshoot farms. I have gathered this species some 

 years ago at Marchwood, near Southampton, but have never received 

 specimens or seen it in auy of the local lists of the county plants with 

 which I have been favoured by coi'respondents, except from Mr. 

 Whale, of Andover, with whom I have seen examples, collected near 

 that town. Its plain, inconspicuous aspect, rather perhaps than any 

 great degree of rarity, causes it to be overlooked or disregarded by 

 collectors. Inner pappus much shorter than the florets ; achenes te- 

 rete. A good example of the eastern or " Germanic " type, which, 

 in the Hants Flora, predominates over the "Atlantic" or western type 

 of vegetation, the latter beginning to develop itself sensibly beyond 

 the meridian of Newport and Winchester, and especially visible in the 

 south-west portion of the county, between the Southampton estuary 

 and the Dorsetshire boundary (New Forest district), becoming very 

 decidedly marked in the last-named county. 



Pulicaria dysenierica. In moist places by road-sides, in lanes, 

 woods and on ditch-banks, abundant almost everywhere. The green 

 margins of our lanes and bridle roads are commonly lined with this 

 plant, which, in the autumnal months, displays its handsome, bril- 

 liant yellow heads of flowers, in a broad belt on either side of the 

 traveller's path. Inner pappus as long as the florets; achenes 

 strongly ribbed and angular. 



Bidens tripartita. In ditches, ponds, and other watery places ; 

 much less frequent in the Isle of Wight than the next, and indeed 

 may be called rare on this side of the Solent. In various parts of 

 Sandown Level. In a ditch by Merry Garden. Margin of the pond 

 at Hardingshoot farm in considerable plenty. 



Bidens cernua. In similar places with the last, but far more com- 

 monly. In the foregoing stations for B. tripartita. Frequent along 

 the Medina in several parts of its course, as about Cridmore, Rookley, 

 &c. Near Gatcombe, Newchurch, Budbridge, Alverston and various 

 other places. Common on mainland Hants. Short Heath, near Sel- 

 borne, &c, &c. Var. 8. Much smaller, stem slender, simple. B. 

 minima, L., F. Dan. ii. t. 312. Dillen. in Ray's Syn. i. p. 188, t. 7, 

 right-hand fig. In a bog on the wet moors a little N.E. of Godshill, 

 and nearly opposite Moor farm, Sept., 1843. In my specimens the 

 heads of flowers are both erect and slightly nodding. The variety 

 of these two species with radiant marginal florets has not occurred 

 to my knowledge in the county. 



Anthemis arvensis. In sandy, gravelly, or chalky fields, amongst 



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