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served part of a clover-field at Bonchurch quite blue with it. Tn si- 

 milar places on the mainland of Hants, and equally frequent. Said 

 to be originally from the east, a rather indefinite term, but Bertoloni 

 appears to regard it as indigenous to the countries around the Medi- 

 terranean, and truly wild in Italy. 



fAnchusa sempervirens. In waste places, amongst ruins, by road- 

 sides, and on shady hedgebanks in lanes : a very doubtful native of 

 this county and island, nor have I ever seen it myself in any situa- 

 tion within our limits where it could with propriety be held indige- 

 nous. At Niton ; Mr. Curtis, who thought it wild there, and has 

 figured it in his superb work on British Entomology, from a speci- 

 men gathered at that place. Naturalized in the garden of Montpellier 

 House, Ventnor. I have gathered it truly wild on weedy banks in 

 shady lanes near Plymouth, and in the Channel Islands. All the 

 eastern stations I have seen, as near Norwich, &c, look to me pro- 

 blematical. 



Lycopsis arvensis. On dry banks, waste ground, and amongst 

 corn in light, sandy soils. Not very general in the Isle of Wight, 

 and observed principally on the greensand in East Medina. Seen 

 frequently about Lake, Sandown, Shanklin, and in the sandy fields 

 above Sandown Bay, towards the Culvers. Very common in sandy 

 fields about Newchurch and Arreton. Frequent, I presume, over this 

 as most other English counties,, in similar soils, though I have no 

 special memoranda of a plant so generally distributed throughout the 

 kingdom to quote for the mainland of Hants. 



Symphytum officinale. By weedy river and ditch-sides, and along 

 moist hedges in watery lanes, &c. ; frequent in the Isle of Wight and 

 county generally. Abundant along the marsh ditches in Sandown 

 Level, both with white and purple flowers. By Bow Bridge. At 

 Shorwell and Luccombe. Frequent on the moors betwixt Bridge 

 and Budbridge, and various other parts of the island. Abundant 

 about Winchester, where, as well as in the Isle of Wight, the var. |3. 

 S. patens of Sibthorpe is almost equally common. A lovely variety, 

 with the flowers of the deepest purple rose-colour, I gathered in a 

 wet place below St. Cross, near Winton, May 28 ; and the same has 

 been found at Sandown, in this island, by Mr. Curtis, and figured by 

 him in Brit. Entom. iv. tab. 155. Mr. Curtis noticed at the same 

 time " specimens with flowers of the richest purple, and others entirely 

 green." The scales in the tube of the corolla are curiously fringed 

 with prismatic teeth or points, resembling in form and transparency 

 the purest icicles. S. tuberosum may possibly be found in this 



