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Fair Oak ; Dr. A. D. White !!! first noticed by the present Dean of 

 Winchester. 1 find it, though sparingly, in moist field-hedges else- 

 where near Fair Oak. About Hume, near Christchurch ; Mr. J. 

 Curtis in litt. (Icon Brit. Entom. viii. t. 351, from Hants specimens). 

 On a gravelly bank near Bramshot, and in a lane leading thence to 

 Hind Head Heath, 1829 and 1835 ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin in litt. 

 Portsdown Hill (Mr. Robinson) ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. I hear it is 

 not uncommon in Wolmer Forest, and probably on those of Bere, 

 Alderholt and in the New Forest district. 



Obs. — C. latifolia has been reported to me as having been found by a 

 lady at Liphook, but subsequent inquiry by my obliging and zealous 

 informant makes it more than doubtful whether an error arising from 

 an accidental transposition of labels has not been committed in this 

 instance. For the present, therefore, we must not venture to enrol 

 this splendid species amongst the floral beauties of Hampshire, but 

 since it has been found of late years in Surrey, and is sparingly dis- 

 tributed in several of the midland counties, there seems no reason for 

 not indulging a hope that it may yet be discovered within the limits 

 to which these Notes and Observations are confined. This is the 

 most western of all the broad-leaved species of Campanula (a genus 

 pre-eminently eastern and continental in its distribution), extending 

 into Ireland and the west of Scotland, both which countries are still 

 poorer than England in the plants of the order it gives name to. In 

 the Channel Islands even C. rotundifolia fails, and Jasione montana 

 becomes local in Scotland. In Sweden, about Stockholm and Up- 

 sala, nearly in the latitude of 60°, eight species of Campanula are 

 indigenous to the floras of those cities, which in Hampshire, nine de- 

 grees farther south, are reduced to five, and for the whole of Ireland 

 to three. In Siberia, the Italian and Austrian Alps, Russia, and 

 other eastern parts of Europe and Asia, the species of Campanula are 

 almost innumerable. 



Specularia hybrida {Prismatocarpus hybridus). In sandy or 

 chalky corn-fields and other tillage land ; pretty general, and often 

 very abundant in the Isle of Wight, so as sometimes to prove an in- 

 jurious weed to the wheat crops from its quantity alone. Fields 

 above Sandown Bay, about Shanklin, and in various parts of Under- 

 cliff, extremely frequent. Sandy fields about Newchurch. Extremely 

 common on the chalk and sand in West Medina, about Cowes, Yar- 

 mouth, Thorley, Wellow, Westover, Rowledge, Brixton, Shorwell, 

 and on the sand of the south-west of the island generally, even in 

 very upland situations. Corn-fields about Alresford, &c. ; Mr. Wm. 

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