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Found by me ten years ago in a retired lane leading from Gauson's, 

 or Gaskin's Barn towards Carisbrook, with yellow flowers, and I 

 think certaintly wild. I have also gathered the normal yellow- 

 flowered variety near Southampton, but the locality has escaped my 

 recollection. Var. /3. Flowers white, copper-coloured at the back. 

 Not very uncommon, but usually in suspicious places near houses or 

 gardens, being in fact that form of the moth mullein oftenest seen 

 with us in cultivation. I have picked it occasionally on the Dover 

 near Kyde Castle, and in Binstead churchyard ; in both places the 

 outcast of gardens. I have received it as apparently wild from 

 Swainston, and from near Fern Hill, by the late Mr. J. Tayler,* but I 

 fear only escaped from gardens in both localities. A plant by the road- 

 side betwixt Haslar and Clay Hill, by Gosport, 1848. I have seen 

 it elsewhere in the island and on the mainland of Hants, but never, I 

 think, where it could be deemed truly indigenous. The species is 

 pretty widely spread over England, although rarely, T believe, abun- 

 dant anywhere, and in the western counties is associated with, or 

 partly replaced by V. virgatum, a species not very likely to occur in 

 Hampshire. Andover; Mr. Wm. Whale — (wild?). 



Orobanche rapum {O. major, Sm. &c. ; not it is said of Linnaeus). 

 On heaths and in bushy places where furze and broom abound, on 

 the roots of which shrubs it is partially parasitic ; rare, at least in the 

 Isle of Wight. On Briddlesford Heath and parts adjacent, on the 

 roots of the furze, not uufrequent ; first noticed by Mr. Borrer during 

 an excursion I made with him in 1840 !!! Near Lynn farm, on a bank, 

 a specimen or two, 1843. Amongst broom and furze on an extensive 

 piece of heathy ground betwixt Quarr Abbey and Ninham it occurs in 

 great plenty, and I believe annually so ; first found there May 30 7 

 1845. In full flower, and very tall, with many of the lower flowers 

 quite faded, May 28, 1846. In greater abundance this year than I 

 ever remarked it in former seasons. All these stations are in East 

 Medina and in the neighbourhood of Ryde ; I have not yet found it 

 in West Medina, nor have I any certain station to record for it in 

 mainland Hants, although I cannot suppose it to be wanting or even 

 very rare in that part of the county. I feel pretty confident of having 

 found it a few years back at Embley, the seat of Edward Nightingale, 

 Esq., near Romsey, but at that time I made no register of any but 

 Isle of Wight plants. Last year many specimens of a tall Orobanche 

 were found in a clover-field, in their neighbourhood, by the Misses 

 Sibley, of Hall Place, near West Meon, which I saw in a somewhat 

 * The family of that name in Ryde spell their name as above, with an e, not with an o. 



