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Win. Pamplin in New But. Guide. Marchwood, Mr. Borrer, and on 

 Shirley Common, both near Southton. Hursley, near Winton ; Miss 

 L. Legge ! I understand it grows also at Beaulieu in West Hants, 

 and doubtless in other parts of the county. An extremely variable 

 plant in the size and colour of its flowers and their markings, as well 

 as in the length and degree of obtuseness of the spur. The blue or 

 purple striae vary much in number and intensity, being sometimes 

 very faint and almost obsolete, and wholly or partially wanting on 

 the lower lip ; at other times the entire corolla is strongly pencilled 

 with broad deep purple or azure lines, so as to appear altogether of 

 that colour. A variety with the flowers pure white and destitute of 

 stria? I find in a field-hedge at Clayhall, near Gosport, Sept. 1848, 

 and July, 1849, but very sparingly. This form has, I think, been 

 noticed at Coniston in Westmoreland, by Mr. Boner. Another and 

 more remarkable state of the plant is a hybrid production between it 

 and L. vulgaris, erroneously, as I feel assured, referred to L. italica 

 of Treviranus, and L. genistifolia of De Candolle, by Babington 

 (Man. 2nd edit. p. 232), and previously to L. Bauhinii of Gaudin, in 

 the ' London Journal of Botany' (vol. i. p. 79), by Mr. H. C. Watson, 

 who, I believe, is now sensible of his error in so doing.* I first no- 

 ticed the plant some few years back, growing in extremely small 

 quantity, in the hedge by the road-side within a mile of West Cowes, 

 on the way to Newport, and again in a lane close by the same station 

 (called, I believe, Love Lane) leading from the said high-road towards 

 the windmill : in both places L. repens and vulgaris were growing in 

 the vicinity of the mule plant. I again fell in with this hybrid Sep- 

 tember 1, 1848, in some degree of comparative plenty, along the 

 hedge-banks by the road from Gosport to Clayhall and Alverstoke, a 

 few hundred yards from Haslar Hospital, on the right-hand side of 

 the road coming from Gosport. Here, as at Cowes, the two parent 

 species will be found flourishing near each other, and in quantity 

 vastly exceeding their spurious offspring. What is evidently the 

 same thing has been found at Shirley, near Southampton, by Mr. 

 Watson, in the county of Cork, and near Penryn, Cornwall, — places 

 all three well known to produce L. repens, and it may fairly be pre- 

 sumed L. vulgaris also. The very aspect and characters of the plant, 



* In reply to a communication in which I expressed my conviction of this being 

 a hybrid, Mr. Watson writes: — " Your hybrid Linaria is in all likelihood the same as 

 my L. Bauhinii ; and if hybrid,"we should expect some differences, as in fact do exist 

 in the Cornish, Hants, Cork and Swiss specimens." 



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