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honeysuckle, the only sweet and innocent thing that lives to throw a 

 charm over what is else but dead, dreary and baleful. The Atropa 

 will be found in great plenty not only in these valleys, but on the bor- 

 ders of the warren in various other places, rising to great bushy 

 plants, and loaded in July and August with their fatal but too enti- 

 cing berries. Were Longwood Warren less secluded and nearer to 

 Winchester, the extirpation of this virulent plant would be a matter 

 of public necessity, for the avoiding of accidents to children or igno- 

 rant persons. 



The Peruvian Nicandra physaloides is occasionally met with in 

 this island, partially naturalized, in and about gardens and by road- 

 sides, but occurs too seldom, and is not sufficiently persistent where 

 found, to entitle it even to an alien's place in the Hampshire flora. 

 The common European winter-cherry (Phy salts Alkekengi), the near 

 ally of this and Atropa, is more likely to be found native or naturalized 

 in the south of England, since it grows truly wild in the north of 

 France, Germany and Belgium, under our latitudes, although scarcely 

 so far to the westward as any part of Britain, and not in the vicinity 

 of the sea-coast. It is, however, recorded in the Dillenian edition of 

 Ray's Synopsis as having formerly been found at Stockport, in 

 Cheshire. 



Hyoscyamus niger. On dry waste ground, pastures, village greens, 

 by road-sides, especially near towns and on calcareous soils, also 

 along the sea-beach and on the high downs ; tolerably frequent over 

 the entire county and Isle of Wight. Frequent on waste ground, in 

 farm-yards, old chalk-pits, and about houses in very many places of 

 the island ; in more truly natural stations on the sea-shore of Thorness 

 Bay, East Cowes, and other parts of its coast, as also on the top of 

 the high chalk downs, not uncommonly. Shores of Stoke's Bay. 

 Frequent on Longwood Warren. Andover; Mr. Whale. Stubbing- 

 ton ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



%Datura Stramonium. By road-sides, in waste and cultivated 

 ground, about towns, on dunghills, and in newly turned-up soil of 

 fields, gardens or building lots, here and there sporadically, and 

 scarcely persistent long together in any one spot. In various parts 

 of the Isle of Wight, but by no means common, and chiefly confined 

 to garden ground, coming up amongst potatoes &c, and in most cases 



some diseases of sheep; and I was told by the Kev. C. Hardy, of South Hay ling, that 

 a root was dug up a year or two ago in the island of that name, which weighed 

 47 lbs. 



