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and which I have gathered abundantly in Georgia, on the banks of 

 the Savannah River, May 22, 1847, a little below the city, with both 

 white and blush-coloured blossoms, as in the New England states 

 and this island; but, excepting in the above particulars, themselves 

 by no means constant, I find nothing to distinguish the transatlantic 

 from the ordinary European form of C. sepium. My excellent friend 

 Dr. Asa Gray, who so ably fills the botanical chair of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, ascribes larger flowers to the American variety of C. sepium ; 

 but though variable in size, the flowers, I think, fully equal with us 

 those of any transatlantic specimens I have seen, being often three 

 inches in diameter in our damp hedgerows, which the ample, pure 

 white corollas copiously adorn from the middle of June till October, 

 or even later. Smith and Wahlenberg profess never to have seen the 

 capsules, which indeed are not very commonly produced. I have, 

 however, gathered them in plenty in many places about Ryde, and 

 elsewhere in this island, as well as near Hastings and at Harapstead. 

 When growing on banks along the sea-shore, or trailing over the 

 pebbly beach, the leaves are commonly somewhat fleshy, and such a 

 variety I find in wet inland thickets occasionally in this island, on the 

 eastern skirts of Blackpan Common. The flowers of C. sepium, un- 

 like those of the last, do not close at night or during rain. I have 

 once or twice noticed the corolla to be deeply 5-cleft in this island. 

 A similar variety of C. arvensis is recorded by Ray and Sir J. Smith. 

 Convolvulus Soldanella. On sandy or shingly sea-beach, both in 

 the Isle of Wight and on the mainland. At the lower end of San- 

 down Bay, towards Shanklin, but sparingly. In drift sand on St. 

 Helens Spit, at its upper or northern extremity, in some abundance, 

 the trailing stems sometimes above two feet in length and rather shy 

 of flowering. In very great abundance on the sandy spit at Norton, 

 opposite Yarmouth, towards its western end, copiously bedecking the 

 ground with its large showy flowers, and seeding freely. All along 

 the south shore of Hay ling Island for three miles, sparingly at its 

 east end, becoming more frequent towards its western point. Oppo- 

 site Cumberland Fort, where it almost covers the sandy hillocks near 

 the Passage House, rampant on the tufts of grass and low herbage, 

 and with very large leaves, but apparently not flowering freely on any 

 part of this extensive line. Sandy shore at Portsea ; Mr. E. Lees in 

 New Bot. Guide. The remark of Smith in Engl. Bot., that the 

 flowers of this species expand only in fine weather, and in the early 

 part of the day, does not accord with « my own carefully repeated 

 observations. I find, on the contrary, that neither wet nor the total 



