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observed any tendency in them to produce hybrids, although, as we 

 shall see presently, mules occur between species of this genus less 

 nearly connected botanically, and brought into less intimate contact 

 with one another. 



Linaria minor. In dry gravelly, sandy or chalky corn-fields and 

 other tillage lands, in waste and garden ground, chalkpits, on old 

 walls, cliffs and rubbish here and there, not unfrequent, and often 

 abundantly. By no means rare in the Isle of Wight, though it can- 

 not be deemed a common species here or on the mainland of Hants. 

 About Ryde occasionally, on the Dover &c. I find it most abun- 

 dantly (and I have reason to believe it to be so every year) in fields 

 below Gatehouse farm, and in great quantity in a field a little south 

 of Beanacre, in the same vicinity. On debris of the chalk-marl 

 cliffs in Whitecliff Bay. Chalkpits near Newport. Fields about 

 Pallance and elsewhere near West Cowes. In the Undercliff, also 

 near Calbourne, Shalfleet, Thorness Bay, and various other places in 

 the island, generally dispersed, sporadically or socially, over its entire 

 area. Of equal frequency on the mainland of the county. Bordean 

 Hill, West Meon, Alverstoke. Plentiful amongst turnips on Ports- 

 down Hill, near and below the Nelson memorial, Oct. 1848. Beden- 

 ham &c.j Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Winton, Pink's Hill, Warnford ; Rev. 

 E. M. Sladen. Andover ; Mr. Wm. Whale. Crux, Easton, Aug. 1849. 



repens. In hedges, on banks and dry barren ground. 



Quite rare in the Isle of Wight, where it is confined to a few localities 

 in West Medina. In several stations about West Cowes rather plen- 

 tifully, more particularly in hedges about Broadfield farm, in various 

 places pretty abundantly. Debborne Turnpike ; Miss G. E. Kilder- 

 bee. Near Yarmouth ; Rev. W. T. Bree in litt. (very sparingly in 

 that neighbourhood !!!) " Lane between Thorley Street and Bould- 

 ner, and I believe elsewhere in that parish ;" Mrs. Penfold !!! A few 

 plants by the road-side betwixt Bouldner and Luckets ; W. A. B. 

 About a quarter of a mile beyond Stapler's Heath going from New- 

 port to Ryde, along the side of the road, sparingly, — the only station 

 in East Medina that I know of for this plant, which seems wholly re- 

 stricted to the north-western side of the island, near the coast line. 

 Much more plentiful in mainland Hants, but principally towards the 

 sea. Abundant on the wide flat shores of Stoke's Bay in various parts. 

 Everywhere plentiful in the hedges and borders of the corn-fields be- 

 twixt Gosport and Alverstoke, along the road from Haslar Hospital 

 to Clayhall and Anglesey, and beyond this latter place westward to- 

 wards Brown Down. On Southampton Common abundantly; Mr. 



