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withered condition, and ascertained not to be O. elatior, although the 

 specimens had not quite the usual aspect of O. rapurn, with which 

 they otherwise agreed in character, as far as could be seen in that 

 state. A similar tall plant of the genus I also remarked last year, 

 from the top of the coach that runs from the Andover Road Station to 

 Andover, likewise in a clover- field, but had not the means of getting 

 at the only specimen seen. 



Orobanche elatior. On the roots of Centaurea Scabiosa and of red 

 clover {Trifolium pratense) ? very rare ? Found at Anglesey, near 

 Gosport, as I learn from Miss L. Minchin, who assured me she had 

 it on the authority of a gentleman who knew plants well. Alver- 

 stoke : found either by Dr. Pulteney, or by the authors of the cata- 

 logue of Hants plants in the ' Hampshire Repository,' so often quoted 

 in these notes. Some carelessness of mine in copying oyt the notice 

 of this last station, which must be very near the former, prevents me 

 from giving the authority with more exactness, and since I have seen 

 no indigenous examples of O. elatior, its occurrence as a Hampshire 

 plant needs confirmation, the more so as other species of the genus 

 are liable to be mistaken for it. I have great reason to think, how- 

 ever, that it was once observed by me in a clover-field south of Caris- 

 brook, some years before I began collecting materials for the island 

 flora, and therefore suffered to pass without due examination and re- 

 cord of the fact.* 



Hedera (O. barbata, Bab. in E. B. &c. ; not of Poiret). 



At the roots of ivy in damp woods, on rocks, walls and shady banks, 

 chiefly, if not exclusively, confined to the back of the island, but there 

 very frequent. At Eastend, Luccombe. Common at Bonchurch, 



* Since this paragraph was written, on recurring to my MSS. T fine! amongst my 

 early notes (1837) the following entry : — " Orobanche elatior P I found a clover-field 

 at the end of Dark Lane, near Carisbrook, quite overrun with it, August 6th. Un- 

 fortunately, and at this distance of time unaccountably, I neglected examining the 

 species farther, which leaves it doubtful whether the plants after all might not have 

 been merely tall individuals of O. minor, but that species was then quite familiar to 

 me, and is noted as having been gathered abundantly by Godshill the day before. 

 Since writing the above, and on examining a bundle of plants collected in the island 

 five or six years back, I found a single specimen of an Orobanche having the charac- 

 ters of O. elatior, namely, the stamens glabrous above, but glandular-hairy on their 

 lower and dilated part, yet without any label attached recording the place or date of 

 collecting. I have little doubt, however, but that the specimen was gathered in the 

 above locality, and after drying laid aside and forgotten. It is certainly not O. mi- 

 nor, and it possesses neither the characters nor aspect of O. major (O. rapum). 

 August 22, 1843." 



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