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there is every reason to expect this species in the county, as well as 

 L. Scariola and L. saligua, more particularly the latter, which should 

 be looked for on dry chalky banks, in lanes and salt-marsh ground, it 

 being found on either side of us in the contiguous counties of Sussex 

 and Dorset. 



Lactuca muralis (Prenanthes muralis). On old walls, rocks, moist, 

 shady, stony banks, in woods and thickets ; not very uncommon in 

 the Isle of Wight, usually where the soil is calcareous. On Quarr 

 Abbey walls, sparingly, and under the old garden-wall at Knighton 

 House. Under the rocks in Hatchet Close and Cowpit Cliff woods 

 near Shanklin, frequent. Road-side at Apes Down. In Bloodstone, 

 Sluccombe and other copses here and there in considerable plenty. 

 Extremely common in the deep, hollow lanes about Selborne, and no 

 doubt in many parts of the county. 



Taraxacum officinale {Leontodon Taraxacum) . In meadows, pas- 

 tures, waste and cultivated ground, lawns, &c. ; universally abun- 

 dant. Several varieties of this polymorphous plant, that is found 

 half over the globe, occur with us, which it is unnecessary to specify. 

 The marsh form, with narrower, less runcinate, sinuately-lobed 

 leaves, and the involucral scales more or less erect or appressed (Le- 

 ontodon palustre, Sm.), is frequent in wet places. 



\Crepis setosa. In cultivated fields amongst clover or lucerne ; 

 very rare ? and certainly introduced. In a clover-field near Gurnet 

 farm, sparingly, July 29th, 1845, where it was first detected by Dr. 

 Salter, on a botanical excursion I made with him on that day !!! 

 Amongst clover in a field at Wootton, occupying the angle formed 

 by the old Newport road and the new cut to Cowes, in abundance, 

 1846 ; Id. This is quite a southern plant, scarcely indigenous to 

 any part of Europe north of the Alps, but of late years has obtained 

 a transient footing in several parts of England and Scotland, by im- 

 portation unquestionably with foreign grass-seed. 



virens. In dry pastures, fields, waste and cultivated 



ground, on walls, roofs and banks, &c. ; everywhere abundantly. A 

 stouter form of this most variable plant, and with larger flowers, 

 grows on the chalk along the road between Carisbrook and Swain- 

 ston, which might be almost mistaken for C. biennis, but wants the 

 essential characters of that species, which, with C. taraxacifolia and 

 C. fcetida (Barkhausia fcetida, D. C), are likely to prove inhabitants 

 of this county or island. Nor, perhaps, ought the rather northern 

 C. paludosa (Hieracium paludosum, L.) to be deemed a very impro- 

 bable addition to the Hampshire Flora, since the researches of recent 



