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Setiecio sylvaticus. On dry sandy or gravelly banks, pastures and 

 heaths, also in woods and waste ground, but not very common in the 

 Isle of Wight. About Sandown abundantly, as on Royal Heath, 

 Lake Common ; about Bordwood and Alverston. Ditch-banks on 

 the moors north of Godshill in several places. Newport, along the 

 road to Yarmouth. Sandy fields and banks under Bleak Downs, 

 &c. Probably not rare in mainland Hants ; its omission from that 

 part of the field of our research is one of those accidental gaps in the 

 county flora which a little more extended opportunity for observa- 

 tion than I have yet enjoyed will enable me to fill up at no distant 

 date. N. B. — S. viscosus may be looked for with considerable pro- 

 bability in this county. 



erucifolius, (S. tenuifolius, Jacq.) In woods, on hedge- 

 banks, by road-sides and borders of fields ; a prevailing species in 

 the Isle of Wight, especially in the chalky districts. Plentiful be- 

 twixt Ryde and Brading, about Newport and in most other parts of 

 the island. The Salterns, Cams, near Fareham ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt : 

 and probably common in the county, although I find no special men- 

 tion of this species in my notes. 



Jacobaza. In moist meadows and pastures, on ditch-banks, 



waste ground, and by road-sides ; common over the entire county 

 and island. 



aquaticus. In wet places, meadows, ditches, &c, very 



common. 



Carlina vulgaris. In dry hilly, sandy, or heathy pastures, fields 

 and rough rocky waste places ; very common in the Isle of Wight 

 and I believe the county generally. Abundant in Luccomb Land- 

 slip, and in many parts of the Undercliff. At Blackgang, and on St. 

 Catherine's Down, &c, plentiful. Main dell chalk-pit, Fareham; Mr. 

 W. L. Notcutt. 



Centaurea nigra. Everywhere abundant in woods, thickets, pas- 

 tures, hedges, waste ground, and by waysides. Var. /3. radiata. As 

 frequent, if not more so than the rayless form over a great part of the 

 Isle of Wight, particularly on the chalk ; very common in Undercliff, 

 as about Ventnor; between" Shanklin and Bonchurch, at Carisbrook, 

 &c. Mr. Babington distinguishes this in the Manual from a similar 

 plant with radiate outer florets, which he refers to C. nigrescens of 

 Willdenow, on the authority, apparently, of Koch. Whether we pos- 

 sess this last as well as the other in the island, or if both are but 

 states of C. nigra, I am still in doubt. I had always supposed our 

 Hants radiated black knapweed might be Willdenow's nigrescens, but 



