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of Dorsetshire. On both sides of the path leading to the decoy pond 

 in the New Forest, sparingly, August 3, 1841 ; Mr. T. B. Flower ! 

 Near Christchurch, 1847 ; Mr. James Hussey ! Parley Heath ; Mr. 

 Curtis in litt., and in Brit. Entom. vi. tab. 281 (drawn from a Hants 

 specimen). This very beautiful plant will most likely be found in 

 our eastern forest tracts of Bere, Holt, Aldershot, &c. 



Menyanthes trifoliata. In boggy, marshy places, wet or peaty 

 meadows, drains, &c, in various parts of the Isle of Wight, but not 

 very common. Sparingly in Sandown Level. At Easton Marsh, 

 Freshwater Gate, and elsewhere in that parish ; on Colwell Heath, 

 and near Thorley. Near Alverston Mill, and in Alverston Lynch. 

 On Kingston Moors ; between West Court and Sandy Way, by Shor- 

 well. Boggy meadow in the valley of the Medina, near its source, 

 &c. Common in mainland Hants. Very fine and abandant in Win- 

 nal water meadows, by Winton. Meadows at Wonston, Bullington, 

 Barton Stacey, &c. ; Rev. D. Cockelton. Itchen Stoke ; Miss L. 

 Legge. Andover; Mr. Wm. Whale. Chilbolton, Boarhunt, Forest 

 of Bere ; Rev. Messrs. Garnier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. The 

 plant may be looked for with tolerable certainty, in full flower, before 

 the middle of May in this part of England (see Phytol. iii. 203). 

 N.B. Villarsia nymphseoides is naturalized in a small pond in a field 

 betwixt Ryde and Brading, where it was introduced by my friend Dr. 

 Salter, and in which Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae and Stratiotes aloides 

 are perfectly established, though not indigenous to the island. The 

 Villarsia may be reasonably expected in some of the larger rivers and 

 still streams of mainland Hants. I have gathered it in Sussex, in 

 ditches on Lewes Level ; but it is difficult to say where this elegant 

 aquatic is truly native or where introduced, so extreme is the facility 

 with which it becomes naturalized from the smallest fragment thrown 

 into the water, yet is the species one of considerable rarity, and of 

 very local distribution in its truly wild state. 



Convolvulus arvensis. In corn-fields, gardens, waste ground, at the 

 foot of walls, on hedge-banks, and by way-sides ; most universal and 

 abundant over the entire county and island. Varies with us in the 

 colour of the flowers, which are often nearly two inches across, from 

 the deepest and most vivid rose-red or peach -blossom to nearly white, 

 mostly with an indented or zig-zag ring of bright crimson a little 

 above the very short yellowish tube. Very profuse and richly coloured 

 about the sandy cliffs of Sandown Bay, where, as in other places,* 



* Near Hastings, and at Gravesend. 



