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the soil till the land comes again in rotation to be laid down in clo- 

 ver, when they vegetate, and a crop of young broomrapes springs into 

 existence, which if pulled up by hand as they come into flower, would 

 have no chance of spreading about the field that season, and if thus 

 carefully weeded out for a year or two might be got rid of altogether. 

 O. minor sometimes makes its appearance with us in pots of green- 

 house plants ; Mr. G. E. Smith and myself have remarked it on Pe- 

 largonium, and the former has seen it on Angelica Archangelica in a 

 garden. Several plants on Apargia (Oporinia) auturnnalis on a bank 

 close to Morton Farm, between Brading and Sandown, July, 1843. 

 On Plantago Coronopus by the cliffs above Sandown Bay ; Mr. J. A. 

 Hankey, June, 1843 !!! Var. /3. Herb pale, yellow or amber-coloured. 

 Clover-field by Lee farm, near Shanklin. Var. y. Flowers pure white 

 or nearly so. In a field near Garrett's, by Newport, in plenty, June 

 16, 1846. In many of the specimens here gathered the flowers were 

 milk-white, more commonly, however, somewhat tinctured with the 

 ordinary purplish colour. Probably common on mainland Hants. 

 WestMeon; Miss E. Sibley. In a field near Appleshaw. Near 

 Andover, 1848. Clover-field near Monument Lane; Mr. W. L. Not- 

 cutt. In all the specimens of this plant that I have examined, and 

 they are very numerous, the stamens are thickly clothed with hairs at 

 the base on their inner or anterior surface, as Smith also remarks. 



Orobanche Picridis. On Picris hieracioides ; very rare ? Ob- 

 served by myself growing abundantly on the plant just named, July 

 9th, 1844, upon a ledge of the Freshwater cliffs called by the cliffs- 

 men Rose Hall Green, but supposed to be only O. minor at the time. 

 Since then the same plant has been found in Cambridgeshire, by the 

 Rev. W. W. Newbould, and determined to be the O. Picridis of 

 Schultz. A careful comparison of my Isle of Wight plant with the 

 excellent figure and description in the fourth volume of the ' Supple- 

 ment to English Botany,' proves it to be identical with the Cam- 

 bridgeshire plant in the minutest particular; close proximity of the 

 sea, and consequently the saline atmosphere in which it grows, not 

 having effected the smallest change in its appearance and structure. 

 I visited Rose Hall Green* again this season, at the latter end of June, 



* The cliffs between Freshwater Gate westward to the Needles, which rise a stu- 

 pendous rampart of chalk to somewhat above 600 feet, have the uniformity of their 

 otherwise perpendicular face broken occasionally by sloping ledges or terraces, at va- 

 rious elevations, and by banks of debris accumulated at their base through the falling 

 every winter of vast fragments of the chalk rock, split off by the joint agency of rain 

 and frost. Few of these ledges are accessible to any but the cliffsmen, but some can 



