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lowing, of which I am much disposed to hold it a variety. About 

 Ryde and Cowes, as on Ryde Dover; Mr. Win. Wilson Saunders!!! 

 Above the shore to the west of Yarmouth. At Ryde; Mr. J. Woods 

 in Bot. Guide. Freshwater Village ; Rev. G. E. Smith. 



Erythrcea Cetitaurium. In dry fields, pastures, woods, and bushy, 

 heathy places ; very common. About Ryde, in Quarr Copse, &c. 

 Woods at Yarmouth, Cowes, Freshwater, &c, plentiful. Common 

 throughout the county, in Hayling Island, &c. Occasionally with 

 white flowers near Thorley and elsewhere, but not frequent. 



linarifolia (E. littoralis, Sm.). On sandy shores and 



banks by the sea, but rarely ? Alum Bay, betwixt Groves' Hotel 

 and the sea ; Dr. Martin ! Sea banks near Compton Bay ; Mr. W. 

 D. Snooke. Headon Hill, within twenty yards of Mr. Ward's cottage; 

 Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! but I am dubious if belonging to this species, 

 which I confess not to be well acquainted with, and to have hitherto 

 neglected examining. All our four kinds of Erythraea, indeed, re- 

 semble each other too closely in essential characters to be perfectly 

 satisfactory species ; and I think much of the differences in habit, 

 branching, form of leaves, and relative length of calyx and corolla, 

 may be owing to soil and situation. N.B. E. latifolia has been stated 

 to me by the Rev. E. M. Sladen to grow on Southsea Common, 

 Portsmouth. 



Cicendia filiformis. In damp, sandy, heathy places, by road-sides, 

 and in cart ruts in the south-western parts of the county, towards the 

 coast; rare. Near Christchurch ; Mr. J. Hussey, 1847 ! In cart ruts 

 on sandy heaths near Avon Cottage, by Ringwood ; Mr. J. Curtis and 

 the Hon. C. A. Harris (Icon in Brit. Entom. vol. xiv. t. 628, from a 

 Hamps. spec). I have constantly been expecting to fall in with this 

 plant in the Isle of Wight, where on geographical grounds its existence 

 might almost be predicted with confidence ; for though it has hitherto 

 eluded observation, I am persuaded it will eventually manifest itself, 

 one of these fine days, to some lucky explorer of our island; sandy 

 heaths, probably towards its north-western extremity, being the nearest 

 part to that portion of the opposite coast where it is known to grow. 

 A plant so small and slender, and whose flowers open only in bright 

 sunshine, may easily escape detection for a long time, yet turn up 

 abundantly at last. Cicendia filiformis is very common about Poole, 

 in Dorsetshire, and to the eastward of us in St. Leonard's Forest, Sus- 

 sex ; the chances are therefore very greatly in favour of its occurrence 

 in an intermediate station, to the westward of the last, and enjoying 

 an insular position, the species being amongst those most strongly 



