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be less frequent there than in the island. Besides the very good 

 technical characters, this most distinct species is marked by its pale 

 green, watery hue, its smooth, shining, translucent aspect, and ex- 

 tremely caespitose mode of growth, its matted roots and lax inter- 

 woven stems, forming tufts of great magnitude and weight in the 

 water of the ditch or pond, which it sometimes fills up entirely. 



Myosotis sylvatica. In woods and shady places ; very rare ? At 

 Lyss, near Petersfield ; Rev. G. E. Smith ! The only example of 

 this beautiful species I have seen from the county, which T owe to 

 the kindness of its discoverer, is remarkably pubescent all over. It 

 will probably be found in other parts of Hants, but it is a much more 

 frequent plant in the north than in the south of England. 



arvensis. Common almost everywhere in open fields, fal- 

 lows, waste ground, on hedge-banks, and in shady places, groves, &c. 



collina. On wall tops, banks and waste ground in dry, 



sandy soil ; very common during spring and early summer in the Isle 

 of Wight, and doubtless over the entire county as well. 



versicolor. In like places with the last, as also in moist 



meadows and pastures ; very commonly. 



Solanum nigrum. In waste ground, about houses and farm yards, 

 on dunghills, rubbish-heaps, in neglected gardens, and in sandy 

 places near the sea; very frequent in the Isle of Wight, and I believe 

 over the whole county. At Ryde, on the Dover, &c, frequent. Plen- 

 tiful, and very large in some sandy or gravelly pits on the spit below 

 St. Helen's, where, as amongst the sand-hills and on the flat beach 

 of the south shore of Hayling Island, it grows in its most truly natu- 

 ral and wild state. Common about farm houses and in weedy gar- 

 dens in most parts of the island ; at Sandown, Bonchurch, Ventnor, 

 Cowes, Arreton, Godshill, St. Helen's, &c. Portchester ; Fareham ; 

 Mr. W. L. Notcutt. I have remarked it in various places on the 

 mainland, but have neglected making notes of a plant so generally 

 diffused over the south of England as this. Several varieties, some 

 of them perhaps species, occur on the continent of Europe, and which 

 will probably be found to inhabit Britain. Of these the most remark- 

 able and distinct is that with berries of an orange red, S. miniatum of 

 some authors, and a variety with the fruit of a yellowish green when 

 mature, is found in Sussex and other parts of England, and will pro- 

 bably be discovered in Hants. I have only found the common black- 

 berried form here as yet, which, with some insignificant differences 

 in aspect, is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer parts of 

 the globe. The common American form, S. virginianum, differs in no 



