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A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 609). 



Lathrcea Squamaria. In moist shady places, woods, copses, 

 groves and shrubberies, at the roots of hazel and other trees, and on 

 the trailing stems of ivy amongst decaying leaves. In various parts 

 of the Isle of Wight, in some of its stations or in certain years, very 

 plentiful, but not generally common in the island. Under the shrubs 

 on the terraces at North Court, Shorvvell ; Rev. James Penfold !!! 

 Plentiful, and I believe annually so, in this station. In the shrub- 

 bery at Svvainston, Miss Simeon, who pointed it out to me growing 

 in great plenty at the foot of Portugal laurels (Primus lusitanica), in 

 June, 1840. In several of the woods about Swainston, 1846. In 

 very great abundance in Long Copse, Apes Down; Miss Dennett!! 

 Little Standen Wood, near Newport, and not uncommon in the is- 

 land ; Mr. George Kirkpatrick. In 1846 I found it scattered, though 

 rather sparingly, over Bloodstone Copse, near Ashey, at the roots of 

 hazel, and fully in flower, March 8th (an extraordinary mild and for- 

 ward season); and on the 15th of the same month I detected it in 

 great abundance in the adjoining Eagle Head Copse, revealed by 

 the septennial clearing of the rice or brushwood ; some of the flowers 

 even then beginning to go off. Exposure to the sun and wind proved 

 fatal to this vegetable recluse, as a week or two afterwards not a plant 

 was to be seen alive. Dr. Salter and myself have fallen in with soli- 

 tary specimens in other parts of the island occasionally. Longwood 

 (near Winton) ; Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. 

 This is the only station I can at present record for mainland Hants, 

 where it is probably not more rare than in the Isle of Wight, but ap- 

 pearing at a time of year when few collectors of " wild flowers" are 

 on the look-out, and haunting chiefly the thickest shades and inner- 

 most recesses of the woods, it escapes notice oftener than most of our 

 native plants, having besides but little to attract attention from the 

 mass of observers with whom beauty or fragrance are the chief claims 

 to regard. L. Clandestina (Clandestina rectiflora, Lam.), which 

 ranges to the north-west departments of France, may eventually prove 

 to be an inhabitant of our southern and western counties. This plant 

 was inadvertently omitted at the close of the Orobanchaceae in the 

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