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rally, about a year or two back. Andover ; Mr. Wm. Whale. Font- 

 ley iron mills ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Artemisia vulgaris. Abundant on dry hedge-banks, in waste 

 ground, thickets and borders of fields in most parts of the county and 

 Isle of Wight. I found the mugwort extremely common about Mon- 

 treal and Quebec, September, 1846, where it was perhaps originally 

 introduced from Europe for medical or economical purposes, but has 

 now quite the aspect of a native production of Lower Canada. 



maritima. Vars. ft. gallica and y. salina. Both forms 



very frequent in salt-marsh ground and muddy shores, both of the 

 island and main. Shore near Quarr Abbey, sparingly. Shores of 

 Brading Harbour here and there, as about St. Helen's, Carpenters, 

 &c. Thomess Bay, King's Quay, and abundant in the salt marshes 

 round Newtown and by the Yar. Near East Cowes. Frequent in 

 Hayling Island, and shore betwixt Emsworth and Langstone in many- 

 places. Common, probably, along the entire Hampshire coast where 

 it is low and muddy. Occurs for the most part in great abundance 

 on its several stations, where it recommends itself to notice by the 

 fine and powerful camphorated fragrance it gives out under the hasty 

 tread of the least regardful of Nature's infinitely varied sources of de- 

 light and instruction to man. For myself, I much prefer the scent of 

 this species to that of the common southernwood {A. Abrotanum), as 

 purer or less contaminated by a certain bitterness which pervades the 

 genus, and from which that old favourite of our English gardens is 

 not absolutely free. 



t ccerulescens. Sea-shores; a very doubtful, and now 



apparently extinct native of England, if it was ever really found in 

 Britain. "At Portsmouth, by the Isle of Wight;" Gerarde. On the 

 coast of Brading Harbour, near Broadstone ; Mr. W. D. Snooke. 

 This species has been introduced into the British Flora on the au- 

 thority of Gerarde and of Tofield; but although the old herbalist men- 

 tions it as a native of the opposite coast of Hampshire (Portsmouth), 

 he does not, as Sir James Smith would lead us to suppose, assign the 

 Isle of Wight as its place of growth, an error which seems to have 

 originated with Smith, and from his own to have been copied into our 

 later British floras. Yet in Mr. Snooke's little work (see note, p. 437) 

 here referred to, a specific locality is given for A. cserulescens within 

 the island, but where I have sought it without success. Mr. S. can- 

 not himself now account for its insertion in his ' Flora Vectiana,' and 

 there can be little doubt but that to some error or inadvertence its an- 

 nouncement in that catalogue was owing. Gerarde (em., p. 1104) 



