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Achillea Ptarmica. In woods, meadows, pastures, on heaths and 

 byroad-sides; a decidedly rare plant in the Isle of Wight. In and 

 about Parkhurst Forest, by the road-side from Newport to Yarmouth, 

 &c., very plentifully. Between Yarmouth and Ningwood, nearly op- 

 posite Cranmore farm. Road-side between Wootton and Newport, 

 a little beyond the bridge across the road, but not plentiful. Alving- 

 ton Manor land and Smallgains Heath ; Mr. G. Kirkpatrick !! 

 About the Depot Hospital (Parkhurst Barracks) ; Mr. W. D. Snooke, 

 and in a few other places. Probably less unfrequent in mainland 

 Hants. In plenty by the side of the London and Portsmouth road, 

 between the 8th and 10th milestones, on this side of Peters field, Au- 

 gust, 1848. Millis's Bottom and Titchfield River; Mr. W. L. Not- 

 cutt. Serjeant's Meadow, Warnford, and Droxford Forest ; Rev. E. 

 M. Sladen. The bruised flower-heads have a pungent, aromatic 

 scCnt, though the rest of the herb is nearly inodorous. The ray is 

 deflexed at night, or when the plant is gathered, as in Anthemis. 



Achillea Millefolium. In meadows, pastures, on hedge-banks, by 

 road-sides and borders of fields, everywhere very common. Var. &. 

 Heads of flowers rose-colour, or deep red ; occasionally. Shore 

 near E. Cowes Castle. N. B. — Diotis maritima {Santolina maritima) 

 is stated by Mr. W. D. Snooke* to grow on the shore at Sconce 

 Tower, a little west of Yarmouth. There is certainly no trace of it 

 there now, and from the unlikelihood of the station (on wet, slipped 

 clay) to produce a plant of the loose, sandy, or pebbly beach, I may 

 safely assume an error on the part of the recorder, unless the consti- 

 tuents of the beach at that time (1823) were very different from what 

 they are at this, when the sea is making daily inroads on the soft 

 banks, and reducing them to a magma of slime and mud along the 

 line of high water. 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. An abundant and often very 

 troublesome weed in dry fields and pastures, which are sometimes 

 rendered quite white with it in the earlier part of summer. Called 

 Bozzum in this island. Naturalized from Europe to an equally 



* Author of a little anonymous work of 35 pages, entitled ' Flora Vectiana,' Lond. 

 1823, sm. 8vo., being a Catalogue of about 300 of the (mostly) less common plants 

 of the Isle of Wight, arranged according to the Linnaean system, the stations partly 

 original and partly selected from Withering's Flora and Turner and Dillwyn's ' Bota- 

 nist's Guide.' To this list, originally drawn up for Sheridan's 'Guide to the Isle of 

 Wight,' I am indebted, so far as it goes, for the compiler's own observed localities, 

 which, with a few exceptions, I have verified, and when of sufficient interest have 

 quoted under the author's name in these Notes. 



