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lost.* They are both maritime or sea-side species, and, as such, pe- 

 culiarly fitted for transmarine migration, as their seeds would find a 

 congenial place of* growth the moment they were cast ashore ; and if 

 the climate of their new settlement were not too widely different from 

 that of their natural soil, they might maintain their ground for some 

 years under meteorological vicissitudes that must ensure their ultimate 

 extinction, if not renewed by the same oceanic agency. Littoral or 

 sea-coast plants are known to have in general a wider geographical 

 range than inland ones, partly from the facility afforded them for mi- 

 gration by the waves, and partly from the greater equability of tem- 

 perature which prevails along the shores of the ocean, or any great 

 body of water. The same causes which extend the permanent will 

 favour the accidental and temporary range of a species much beyond 

 its proper average limits, and hence I would not be thought to refuse 

 credence to the accounts we have of the occurrence of these and other 

 plants upon our southern coasts, however great the probability that 

 such accounts may be founded on errors of observation. 



Tanacetum vulgare. On hedge-banks, by road-sides, and about 

 the borders of fields, in various parts of the Isle of Wight. At St. 

 John's, Ryde, sparingly. Near Lake Farm, Sandown. Plentiful by 

 the road-side from Chale to Blackgang, and abundantly on a high 

 bank betwixt Mottestone and Brixton. Hedges betwixt Niton and 

 Whitwell, abundant in two or three places. Hedge-banks on the 

 moors near Godshill. Dry pastures at Newchurch. Especially abun- 

 dant on Viunicombe Hill. Moor Town by Brixton, at Kingston, Sand- 

 ford, and many other places. By Windmill Lane, Fareham, Mr. W. 

 L. Notcutt, the only mainland station I happen to have on record, 

 though I cannot suppose the tansey to be rare in that part of our 

 county, any more than in this. 



Filago germanica. In dry pastures, fields, waste and fallow 

 ground, by road-sides, &c. ; very universal and abundant over the 

 county and Isle of Wight. 



apiculata. In similar places with the last, and possibly 



not uncommon, but at present 1 can only record it in the following- 

 locality for Hampshire. In fields about midway between Farnbo- 

 rough station and Frimley ; Mr. H. C. Watson ! Having never seen 

 this recent addition to the British Flora in a living state, and know- 

 ing it only through beautiful dried specimens sent me by the Rev. G. 



* Near Nantes according to Bonamy. See Lloyd,' Flore de la Loire Inferieure,' 

 p. 333. 



