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less. The plant is unquestionably truly native over a considerable 

 tract of woodland, and is indigenous to most parts of central, south- 

 ern, and even of northern Europe (Denmark and Livonia). Its dis- 

 covery in Sussex only within our own remembrance would give a 

 handle to the inference of its having become naturalized merely, but 

 for the fact of hundreds of parallel instances of plants far more con- 

 spicuous than this escaping notice in well-explored districts in a way 

 still more difficult to understand and account for, as Erica ciliaris on 

 Wareham Heath, Bunium Bulbocastanum in Herts and Cambridge- 

 shire, &c, &c. 



Campanula glomerata. On dry chalky hills, banks and pastures, 

 sometimes in woods and hedges ; more frequent on the mainland of 

 Hants than in the Isle of Wight. On the downs about Freshwater 

 and Alum Bay not unfrequent, as near the Needles Hotel and light- 

 house, but scarcely an inch high, probably from being browsed down 

 by the sheep, and mostly bearing only a single flower. On the field- 

 banks above Alum Bay it grows tolerably luxuriant and tall. Very 

 abundant on the summit and north-eastern slope of Bembridge Down, 

 with flowers considerably aggregated. Most abundantly, but very 

 dwarfish, on the down between Calbourae and Brixton, where I have 

 picked a specimen or two with white, and others with pale blue 

 flowers. Finer and taller in the sheltered valleys of mainland Hants. 

 Bordean Hill, West Meon, &c. At Appleshaw. In Murden 

 Lane, about two miles from Hursley, in great plenty on chalky banks 

 on both sides of the lane ; Mr. Wm. Whale. On Primrose Hill, 

 Andover ; Id. Maindell chalk-pit, Fareham ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt !!! 

 A very variable plant, out of which at least a dozen false species of 

 its own genus and one gentian have been manufactured ! The latter 

 marvellous transmutation (G. collina, With.) is neither more nor less 

 than the above-mentioned dwarf, single-flowered state of Campanula 

 glomerata, facsimiles of which, as represented in PI. xi. fig. 8, of the 

 ' Arrangement of British Plants,' 3rd edit., I have often gathered on 

 our high downs, at the very zero of degeneracy from the ample de- 

 velopment which through cultivation enables it to rival the most ad- 

 mired of our border perennials. 



Trachelium. In dry, chalky and hilly woods, thickets, 



hedges, and on bushy declivities ; very common in mainland Hants ; 

 on the Isle of Wight confined principally to the interior central parts 

 of West Medina, scarcely found in the eastern hundred. Abundant 

 in woods at Swainston and Rowledge. Abundant in the Tolt Wood, 

 and common elsewhere about Gatcombe in fields and hedges. About 



