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such botanists as may visit this island at the proper season will aid 

 me in its rediscovery at Yarmouth. 



fXaniJiium strumarium. In low, rich, waste ground, on ditch- 

 banks and by road-sides. Found by Kay about three miles from 

 Portsmouth on the road to London. (Syn. Stirp. Brit. i. p. 140). I 

 am not aware of this plant having been found in Hants since Kay's 

 time, but as specimens occur now and then about London, in Kent, 

 Surrey, and other counties of England in our own day, there is every 

 chance that it will again turn up in the county if specially sought 

 after. It would seem to have been somewhat less rare in former times 

 than at present, as several stations are given for it by Gerarde and 

 Parkinson ; it can hardly, however, be regarded but as an introduced 

 foreigner, imperfectly naturalized and extremely evanescent, though a 

 very cosmopolite by nature, claiming no particular country as its na- 

 tive home, but, Jew-like, settling in preference where the climate is 

 warm and the land rich. 



Jasione montana. In sandy or gravelly fields and pastures, on dry 

 banks and heathy, hilly places ; not unfrequent in the Isle of Wi«-ht 

 and I believe over the entire county. Common in and about Shank- 

 lin Chine and on the banks of slipped land below the cliff to the 

 northward of it. Common about Sandown, Blackgang Chine, and on 

 most sandy heaths throughout the island. In the Lith, Selborne, at 

 Wolmer and Shortheath ; Dr. T. Bell Salter. The plant has a hot, 

 acrid taste and scent, like most of its natural order. Dr. Macreight 

 (Manual of Br. Bot. p. 146) mentions a variety, the 0. maritima, 

 D. C, as growing on the sea-shore near Portsmouth, having verv 

 hairy, prostrate stems, short, cauline leaves, hirsute calyx, and outer 

 involucral bracts obtuse. 



Phyteiima orbiculare. On dry, hilly, chalky pastures, downs and 

 banks, sometimes in woods ; common in various parts of mainland 

 Hants towards the centre and interior of the county, at a distance 

 from the sea ; rare near the coast, and not found in the Isle of 

 Wight. On the chalk about Old Alresford ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin in 

 New Bot. Guide. In Bordean Hanger, thirty-three inches high ; 

 Miss E. Sibley. Glebefield, and in a lane at West Meon ; Ead. !!! 

 Upon tumuli on Old Winchester Hill, a few miles to the S.W. of 

 Petersfield ; Ead. !! Sutton Scotney, near Andover ; Mr. Wm. 

 Whale ! Headbourne Worthy, about two miles from Winton ; Dr. 

 A. D. White. Down between Chilbolton and Crawley, about seven 

 miles from Winton ; Id. Warnford ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. Cather- 

 ington ; Miss L. Minchin. Meonstoke and (var. with white flowers) 



