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in Alverston Lynch, near Newchurch. By the road-side from Ryde 

 to Newport, a little before coming to Stapler's Heath, but rather 

 sparingly. In Firestone Copse and Guildford Lane. Probably not 

 unfrequent in mainland Hants. Common in woods and hedges be- 

 tween Bishopstoke and Fair Oak. Fareham Common ; Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt (H. Sabaud.). 



Hieracium murorum will, there can be little doubt, turn up eventu- 

 ally in this island or on the mainland of Hants. 



umbellatum. On sandy or gravelly heaths and com- 

 mons, hedge-banks, in groves, thickets and bushy places ; in many 

 parts of the Isle of Wight abundantly. Plentiful on Lake Common 

 and (before its enclosure) on Royal Heath. On heathy ground about 

 Niton and Whitwell, as on Yarbury Hill, &c. Near Kingston, and 

 in various other places. At Selborne, in the deep, rocky lanes. 

 Fareham Common ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Var. 8. Leaves broader, 

 with large and sharp teeth pointing forward. In the hollow on the 

 road between Blackwater and Rookley. On Apse Heath, frequent. 

 Most likely a frequent species over the county, but the less one has 

 to do with this most troublesome and unsatisfactory genus the better. 

 Happily the botanists of the south are spared the task (pleasant 

 enough, however, to some) of unravelling the web of synonyms only 

 to become worse entangled and perplexed amid the verbosity of ever- 

 shifting and changing nomenclature. 



I found, July ]3th, 1837, in a wood near Yarmouth, two specimens 

 of a plant which at that time appeared to me to be the H. molle of 

 Jacquin and of E. B. tab. 2210, referred in the Manual to the Crepis 

 succisaefolia of Tausch,* uative to the north of England and south of 

 Scotland in woods. Unfortunately I neglected preserving the speci- 

 mens for future reference, so cannot with absolute certainty give this 

 northern species a place in the Hampshire flora, though pretty well 

 persuaded of the correctness of the fact of having found it. I hope 



* The C. hieracioides of Waldstein and Kitaibel. The name given by these au- 

 thors is preferable to that of Tausch' s, as expressing clearly the remarkable hawkweed 

 habit, more manifest than the resemblance of the leaves to those of Devil's-bit (Sca- 

 biosa succisa), but priority, that grand arbitrator in the wordy disputes of botanists, 

 has doubtless pronounced judgment in favour of Tausch. The English name " suc- 

 cory-leaved " is one of those odd coincidences in sound which look like mistransla- 

 tions of blundering ignorance, without being really such, of which we have two 

 notable instances in Ranunculus sceleratus and Euphorbia hiberna, rendered respect- 

 ively celery-leaved crowfoot and Irish spurge, for reasons, as is well known, quite 

 unconnected with their Latin specific titles. 



