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the foot- way through the Undercliff (Luccombe Landslip or Eastend) 

 from Luccombe to Bonchurch ; Mr. J. Woods, jun. in Bot Guide. 

 I have repeatedly searched the place in vain. In a large plantation 

 of fir and beech (New Barn Hummet) by Calbourne New Barn, but 

 sparingly, July, 1842-43. In the great plantation along the slope of 

 the Down above Westover, in small quantity, July, 1843. In both 

 stations periodical in its appearance. More frequent in natural beech 

 woods on the mainland. A single specimen in a wood at Clanfield, 

 July, 1848. In Bordean Hanger; Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! In the 

 beech woods abundantly, as at Avington, between Winchester and 

 Alresford ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin in litt. Avington Wood ; Dr. A. D. 

 White. Holt Wood (Alder Holt Forest ?) ; Rev. Messrs. Gamier 

 and Poulter in Hamps. Repos. Brookwood Coppice, near Warnford; 

 Rev. E. M. Sladen. Westbury Park, West Meon ; Miss E. Sibley. 

 In Selborne Hanger, under the shady beeches at the north-west end ; 

 Rev. G. White. In the woods at West Dean, Sussex, the residence 

 of my friend the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, where the Monotropa 

 abounds, I have gathered specimens fifteen inches high. The entire 

 plant has a strong earthy smell, which has been compared to various 

 and very dissimilar substances, as primroses, bees' wax and vanilla ! 

 To myself the odour is most repulsive, and forcibly recalls that given 

 out by moistened rhubarb. 



Ilex Aquifolium. In woods, thickets, hedges, on dry bushy or 

 heathy banks and hill-sides, extremely common, and in many places 

 most abundantly, throughout the county and Isle of Wight. More 

 usually seen on this island as a bushy shrub or low tree, the soil ap- 

 parently not suiting its development ; in some parts, however, hollies 

 of considerable bulk are not unfrequent, as on Hillside, by New- 

 church, and in the romantic oak and beech glades of the New Forest 

 they may be constantly met with of timber-like size and height.* 

 Amongst the greatest ornaments of the beautiful and picturesque spot 

 called Apse Castle,t are its hollies ; many of the trees here bear all 



* All around Lymington, Boldre, Brockenhurst, and other parts of the ancient 

 forest precincts, this tree so abounds as to be a distinguishing feature of its beautiful 

 sylvan scenery. 



f Apse Castle (so denominated perhaps antithetically as being a place in which a 

 castle never existed, where one ought to have stood) is among the many secluded 

 nooks with which the interior of the island abounds, but are nevertheless unknown to 

 the herd of summer tourists who deviate about as much from the prescribed line of 

 coast route, and get over it with nearly the same celerity, as though they were travel- 

 ling by railroad on urgent business. This is simply a thickly-wooded eminence, about 



