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amongst turnips, particularly Swedes ; and the capsules most abun- 

 dant. 



Should any of your readers wish for specimens, I shall be happy to 

 supply them, provided, of course, that the plant is in existence after 

 the beginning of April, about which time it usually disappears. Dried 

 specimens are scarcely worth examination, but I would supply them 

 in default of fresh ones. 



The early spring of 1846, when I before found this plant in fruit, 

 was similarly mild to the present season, but more moist. The plant 

 was then unusually abundant near Yarmouth, where it had been 

 found for many years by Mr. Turner, but always barren. 



George Fitt. 



Fakenhani, March, 1849. 



A Catalogue of the. Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 439). 



Artemisia Absinthium. In pastures, waste and stony places, on 

 hedge-banks, by road-sides, and about farm-yards and villages in 

 many parts of the Isle of Wight ; abundantly. Salt ditch by the 

 Vernon Hotel at Springfield, near Ryde, else almost unknown in this 

 vicinity. Chalk-pit betwixt Yaverland and Brading, and a few plants 

 on the northern slope of Bembridge Down, July 8, 1848, an extremely 

 sequestered station. Plentiful and truly indigenous along the whole 

 length of the Undercliff, in rough pastures and dry wastes, at Bon- 

 church, Ventnor, St. Lawrence, Bankend, &c. Profusely about Ni- 

 ton, as between Mount Cleve and the lighthouse (St. Catherine's), and 

 in pasture ground beneath the cliff behind the Sand Rock Hotel. 

 Everywhere along the road betwixt Niton and Blackgang, preferring 

 rocky, arid places, the debris of the cliffs, and along the stone fences. 

 In less certainly natural stations about farm-yards and villages, as at 

 Yaverland, Kingston, Redway, Gottens, and many other places. I 

 am not yet in a condition to state its frequency on the mainland, 

 having received but few notices of it from correspondents; nor have I 

 remarked it since I began to register the plants of the county gene- 



