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Shorwell, sparingly. In Lorden, Sluccornbe, Westridge, and other 

 hill-side copses on the chalk, in plenty, and in the first of these I 

 have gathered it with flowers of a pure white, August 23rd, 1839. 

 Extremely common around Petersfield, in woods at Bordean, about 

 East and West Meon, &c. Most abundant and luxuriant in woods, 

 hedges and close lanes about Clanfield, the flowers often as large, or 

 nearly so, as in C. latifolia, and of as deep a blue. Frequent about 

 Selborne and at Appleshaw. Audover ; Mr. Wm. Whale. Maindell 

 and Whitedell, near Fareham ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt !!! and generally 

 distributed over the county, but in this island everywhere avoiding 

 the coast and flat country, even when the chalk extends to them. 

 Its distribution in the island exactly accords with that of the bryony 

 and buckthorn, as remarked under those plants. A stately ornament 

 along our thick hedge-rows and retired green lanes in the latter half 

 of summer. The true Canterbury bells of our gardens [C. Medium, L.) 

 I have twice found growing spontaneously on bushy banks at Blading 

 and Bonchurch, but in small quantity, and without doubt as strays 

 from cultivation. 



Campanula rotundifolia. In dry sandy fields and pastures, on 

 heaths, walls, banks and chalky downs ; abundantly over the county 

 and island, particularly in elevated situations. This common but 

 graceful and delicate species is of unusual luxuriance on sandy fences 

 near the foot of Bleak Down, where I have picked a few specimens 

 with white flowers. On our British heaths and hills the harebell 

 varies but little from the normal type, but on the Italian Alps, as 

 Bertoloni observes, it sports in endless and intricate varieties, giving 

 rise to many false species. I have gathered this plant, so familiar to 

 us all from childhood, on the shores of Lake Champlain, at Burling- 

 ton, in Vermont. 



Ranunculus. On gravelly or sandy banks, hedges and 



borders of fields ; very rare. " In the pastures and hedge-sides on 

 the north-west of the Moor, not far from the great bog (Petersfield 

 Heath?) neer Petersfield ;" Mr. Goodyer in Merrett's Pinax, p. 103. 

 I have never seen Hampshire specimens of this plant, and do not 

 know if it be still found in Goodyer's localities. Miss E. Sibley in- 

 forms me that she once saw or received a specimen from the same 

 part of the county, and as the species occurs rather commonly in cer- 

 tain parts of Surrey, it may well be a native with us also. 



_ patula. In damp, gravelly pastures, hedges, borders of 



fields and thickets ; rare in Hants, and not found in the Isle of 

 Wight. On the right-hand side going from Bishopstoke Schools to 



