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observers have greatly extended the range of species before thought 

 to be confined within much narrower limits ; many northern plants 

 have been detected in the south, and southern ones farther to the 

 northward than they were ever supposed to reach till lately. 



About ten or twelve years back I found in this island a remarkable 

 specimen of C. virens, in which all the root and inferior stem-leaves 

 were spatulate, very obtuse, and nearly entire, being slightly repand 

 and denticulate only, and on very elongated footstalks, the upper 

 leaves elongate-oblong, slightly denticulate and clasping, with very 

 minute auricles. The late Mr. David Don, and other botanists to 

 whom I showed it, could only refer it to the present species. 



Sonchus oleraceus. In waste and cultivated places, garden ground, 

 about hedges and road-sides, in woods, fields, &c. ; everywhere. 



asper. In similar situations with the last, and nearly as 



common. Well distinguished, I think, from the foregoing, by the 

 character of the seed (a part less liable to variation than most others), 

 and by the peculiar curled or rounded auricles of the leaves, like the 

 volutes on the chapiters of Corinthian or Ionic columns, so different 

 from the flat, acute and arrow-shaped bases of the leaves in S. olera- 

 ceus, not to mention that the root-leaves of S. asper are winged to 

 their junction with the stem. 



arvensis. In cultivated fields amongst corn, turnips, &c, 



especially on a dampish soil ; frequent : also, but more rarely, on 

 ditch-banks and in moist hedges. 



Hier actum Pilosella. On dry short pastures, heaths, banks, walls, 

 rocks, and waste, barren places ; very common over the county and 

 Isle of Wight. The var. /3. Peleterianum will probably be found 

 with us, but I have not yet remarked it in the county. 



vulgatum {H. sylvaticum, Sm.). In dry woods and 



thickets, on walls, banks, and sandy, gravelly, or chalky pastures, but 

 not common, at least in the Isle of Wight. Plentiful in East Standen 

 Copse, near Newport, mostly by the path-side through the wood. 

 Sparingly in a large gravel-pit by the Ryde and Newport road, at the 

 turning off to Fishbourne. In Symington Copse, near Northwood 

 church. In the sandy lane betwixt Morton farm and the Grove, and 

 in several other places in the island. Gathered on the road from 

 Bordean to Froxfield (on Bordean or Stoner Hill), 1848. Wolmer 

 Forest and rocky lanes about Selborne ; Dr. T. Bell Salter !!! Fare- 

 ham Common ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



boreale. In woods, thickets and on hedge-banks, but 



not common in the Isle of Wight. Abundant on a high, sandy bank 



