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the true corn-poppy, vulgarly called here redweed. A yellow fox- 

 glove has been reported to me (I think by Miss Griffith of Torquay, 

 though not on her own authority) as having been found at Apse Castle, 

 near Shanklin. I have never met with anything of the kind there, 

 but should not be surprised to hear that the Digitalis lutea, if that be 

 the plant intended, were to be discovered in England, since it abounds 

 in the north of France, and is, I believe, common in the neighbour- 

 hood of Rouen and other places in Norrnandy. It is abundantly na- 

 turalized in a thicket just outside of Mr. Borrer's garden at Henfield, 

 and our south-eastern counties of Kent, Sussex and Hants are exactly 

 those in which there is the greatest probability of its occurrence. 



% Antirrhinum majus. On walls, rocks and old buildings in and 

 about towns, and contiguous to, or not far remote from gardens, from 

 which it has in every instance escaped, at least in this island, and 

 probably in all other parts of the kingdom. On several walls at Hyde, 

 Newport, Cowes, Yarmouth &c. On rocks behind the houses at 

 Ventnor. Frequent on walls and ruins in most parts of the county, 

 Petersfield, Winchester &c. In its truly wild state, as I have seen it 

 on the stony garrigues at Castlenau, near Montpellier, the flowers 

 are white, with a slight tinge of sulphur-yellow or flesh-red ; and of 

 this primitive colour I have gathered them on calcareous rocks at Cat- 

 down Quarry, near Plymouth, where the great Snapdragon looked 

 more like an indigenous production than I have ever seen it do else- 

 where in this country. 



Orontium. In waste and cultivated ground, amongst 



corn, turnips, potatoes &c, on light sandy, gravelly or chalky (rarely 

 on clayey) soils ; not very uncommon in the Isle of Wight, being 

 pretty generally, though mostly sparingly distributed over it. Here 

 and there about Ryde, but rarely. Pretty frequent in turnip-fields 

 near Gurnet farm in the autumn. Near St. Helen's. Steephill ; Mr. 

 Albert Hambrough \ Fields between Lake and Sandown, and be- 

 tween Week farm and St. Lawrence ; Mr. W. D. Snooke. Garden 

 ground at Shanklin and Godshill, and in various other places oc- 

 casionally, but usually very sporadic. About equally frequent, I 

 presume, on mainland Hants. In sandy fields and garden ground at 

 Short Heath and Oakhanger, near Selborne, September, 1848. Field 

 at Clay Hall, between Haslar and Alverstoke, near Gosport. Plenti- 

 ful in a turnip-field near Hasted, in the parish of Hursley (near Win- 

 chester) ; Mr. Wm. Whale ! Heron Court; Mr. Curtis in litt. and 

 icon in Brit. Entom. viii. t. 337. I have gathered it in this island 

 with white flowers occasionally. 



