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up it goes, and getting above the heads of its supporters, spreads its 

 own sweet laughing blossoms to the sun. Here and there is a dense 

 network of the wild clematis, clothed with downy seeds — a plant so 

 loved by Scott, that, with a poet's license, he transplanted it from our 

 warm hedgerows to the cold, rocky scenery of Ketturin and Venue — a 

 botanical blunder which few of his readers will detect, and none criti- 

 cise severely. I love these lanes, because Nature has so long had 

 her own way in them ; and where Nature is left to herself she always 

 acts wisely, beautifully, and well. There is not a foot of surface in 

 these old hollow ways but has its peculiar charms." — p. 3. 



Mr. Salmon has given an admirable summary of the botanical fea- 

 tures of Godalming and its vicinity at page 131, interspersing a vast 

 number of localities for the more interesting plants, together with 

 admirable observations on the geological and other natural features 

 of the district where they occur. We rejoice to hear of the suc- 

 cess which has attended the publication of this truly pleasant volume. 



G. 



A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 504). 



Thrincia hirta. On pastures, heaths, gravelly banks, fallows, &c. ; 

 common in the Isle of Wight and doubtless over the county also. A 

 variety, the leaves of which are almost perfectly glabrous, shining, 

 and firmer in texture than usual, is frequent on the short turf of 

 Freshwater Down, above Alum Bay, &c. 



Leontodon hispidum f Apargia hispida). In dry meadows, pas- 

 tures, and on gravelly banks, &c, frequent. 



Oporinia autumn alis (Apargia autumnalisj. In meadows, pas- 

 tures and on dry banks, &c. ; frequent over the county and Isle of 

 Wight. Var. Leaves dark green, deeply runcinate pinnatifid, very 

 hispid all over, with rigid, simple hairs ; scapes spreading, depressed 

 or ascending. In a very elevated chalky corn-field above Sandown 

 Bay, towards the Culver Cliff, in plenty, August 3rd, 1843. A re- 

 markable form, almost hoary from the copious hairs which clothe 

 both sides of the leaves, but are most abundant along the midribs un- 

 derneath. 



