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woods, &c, everywhere very common. Dr. Salter found a specimen 

 of this plant betwixt Morton and Adgeton, near Brading, with a very 

 close, erect, corymbose panicle, and the rays of the very numerous 

 heads of flowers imperfectly developed. Var. (3. Leaves deeply and 

 coarsely dentate and angular. On a bank by the road-side from 

 Aldermoor to Haven Street. Near Stroud Wood, Isle of Wight, 

 July, 1841. A remarkable, but possibly not very uncommon form, 

 with the terminal lobe of the leaves large, angular, cordate, acute, ap- 

 proaching to Lactuca muralis or Chenopodium hybridum in outline. 



N. B. — Arnoseris pusilla (Lap. pusilla, Willd.) will, it can hardly 

 be doubted, be found to inhabit the county, though hitherto unre- 

 corded. Mr. H. C. Watson observed it profusely in some sandy 

 fields between Frimley and Chobham ridges, in Surrey, very near the 

 boundary line betwixt that county and this. The extensive sandy 

 tracts north of Petersfield, towards Farnham, may be expected to 

 yield this and other sand plants, as Apera Spica-venti, and perhaps 

 A. interrupta, the latter a recent and highly interesting addition to 

 the English Flora. 



Cichorium Intybus. In corn-fields, by road-sides, and on chalky 

 or gravelly banks and pastures ; decidedly uncommon in the Isle of 

 Wight, and apparently not less so in the county generally. About 

 the ascent of the hill leading up to Hampstead farm (Mrs. Nash's), 

 near Yarmouth ; Rev. James Penfold and Rev. Win. Darwin Fox !!! 

 By the road-side between Idlecombe and Roughborough farms for 

 nearly 100 yards ; Mr. G. Kirkpatrick !!! Chalky hollow in a field 

 behind, and nearly between Plash and Buccombe ; W. A. B. Fields 

 near St. Lawrence ; Mr. G. S. Gibson (Phytol. Nov. 1843). Stray 

 specimens occur amongst corn and by road-sides occasionally in most 

 parts of the island. Observed, but very sparingly, about Porchester 

 and at Wymmering, 1848. Droxford, Wheely ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. 

 Road-side near Bishop's Waltham ; Miss L. Sibley. Andover ; Mr. 

 Wm. Whale. Fontley ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. I have seen this plant 

 grown on a small scale for feeding cows, at Niton, and as an adjunct 

 to or a substitute for coffee, the roasted roots are extensively em- 

 ployed on the continent, where the species is cultivated in quantity 

 as chicory, for that single object. 



Hypocharis glabra. On dry sandy or gravelly heaths and pas- 

 tures, also in cultivated fields, amongst turnips &c, in a similar soil ; 

 rare ? In a sandy turnip-field near Cliff farm, by Shanklin, along the 

 footway to Apse and America, in considerable plenty, October 14, 

 1847. On Short Heath, Oakhanger, near Selborne, September, 1848. 



