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tab. et fol. 754 (sub nomine D. Pardalianches). Having been hither- 

 to unable to obtain particulars respecting the leopard's bane in this its 

 only recorded Hants station, I do not venture to pronounce it indige- 

 nous to, or even as certainly found within, the county ; for East 

 Woodhay is so close to the confines of Hants and Berks, that in the 

 absence of specific information a doubt may arise whether the plant 

 was gathered in the former or the latter. Both these points I shall 

 hope to clear up at the proper season. Mr. Curtis's beautiful figure 

 plainly, I think, represents the D. Pardalianches of E. B. vol. ix. t. 

 630, now referred to D. plantagineum. The synonyms of this last 

 are much confused, and it is doubtful if ours be the Linnaean species 

 so denominated. The genus Doronicura inhabits alpine or subalpine 

 places in southern and central Europe, and not being plants of low 

 and maritime counties it is not likely that any are truly native in the 

 south of England, whatever may be the case with them in the " cold 

 mountains of Northumberland/' where Gerarde affirms they grow. 



Cineraria cumpestris. On dry chalky Downs and pastures ; rare ? 

 Near Basingstoke and Andover, Huds. Fl. Ang. On Flower Down, 

 near Winton; Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamps. Repos. !!! 

 Abundantly on Stockbridge race-course, where the Bibury meeting is 

 held; Dr. A. D. White. Warnford; Rev. E. M. Sladen. Dr. White 

 kindly conducted me in May last to the station on Littleton or Flower 

 Down, as it is called indifferently, and where this rare plant still 

 grows in considerable plenty on the short turf of the yet unenclosed 

 part of the Down, which is used by a well-known breaker-in of race- 

 horses for a training ground. The authors of the catalogue in the 

 ' Hampshire Repository ' give Belhan, Isle of Wight, as a trans-so- 

 lenline station for the Cineraria, the locus of which has to this day 

 continued to be a profound mystery to myself and every one else in 

 the island of whom I have made inquiry times without number, nor 

 has the plant yet occurred with us to my knowledge in any other 

 than the very apocryphal habitat just mentioned. If attention be not 

 drawn to the very different root-leaves, its unassuming aspect may 

 fail to attract notice from a hasty passer-by, who may set it down for 

 an unhappy specimen of Senecio erucifolius with flowers reduced to 

 their lowest terms as to number by uncongeniality of soil or situation. 

 The affinity (perhaps too near) of its genus to Senecio might make 

 such a blunder almost excusable in any person not familiar with the 

 present species. 



Senecio vulgaris. In waste and cultivated ground, fields, gardens 

 &c. ; abundant everywhere. 



