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alter which the testa bursts by the eruption of the plumule, and the 

 young plant thus appears as if vegetating in the air. 



Melampyrum pratense. In dry woods, groves and thickets, abun- 

 dantly over the whole of the county and Isle of Wight. Var. (3. lati- 

 foliura. Leaves (the uppermost especially) more or less inclined to 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Probably not unfrequent. Plentifully in 

 New Copse, near Wootton Bridge, May 24th, 1846. Picked at Apse 

 Castle, near Shanklin, in May, 1843, but only a solitary plant. 

 Woods at Clanfield near Petersfield, common, July, 1848, and plen- 

 tifully in a wood near Appleshaw, June 26th, 1848, but exhibiting 

 here, as in most of the above-mentioned places, all gradations be- 

 tween this and the ordinary narrow-leaved form of the species. Near 

 Boarhunt, July, 1848. In these specimens the uppermost or floral 

 leaves are very deeply pinnatisected or pectinato-dentate below, and 

 cordate, ovate or rounded at base. I presume our plant to be the 

 var. y. latifolium of the Manual, and identical with that found by Mr. 

 Borrer in woods on the Wye. If so, it is apparently a frequent form 

 in Hants, and I have gathered the same plentifully on Ross Island, 

 Killarney, in 1842. It must, however, be looked upon as a casual 

 deviation only from the normal state, and not as a well-defined and 

 permanent race or variety. In Sweden this species is found in mea- 

 dows, not as with us in woods, and hence the epithet of pratensis 

 given it by Linnaeus was not so inappropriate as it appears to more 

 southern botanists. 



Pedicularis palustris. In spongy, turfy, or peaty bogs, wet mea- 

 dows and thickets, also in ditches, pools, and field-drains. In many 

 parts of the Isle of Wight, but not very general. In Sandown Level, 

 and abundant in the marsh at Easton Freshwater Gate. In several 

 parts of the valley of the Medina south of Newport, as on Rookley 

 Moors and deep bogs about the Wilderness, &c. Near Calbourn, 

 Carisbrook, Shorwell, and elsewhere, not unfrequent. On Apse 

 Heath I have found it with white flowers. Common, I believe, in 

 mainland Hants. Wet meadows below Winton. Boggy parts of 

 Titchfield Common in plenty. Bog betwixt Lymington and Brock- 

 enhurst. Warnford ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. 



Pedicularis sylvatica. In exactly similar places with the last, but 

 also on moist heaths, damp pastures and moors too dry for P. palus- 

 tris ; extremely common throughout the Isle of Wight, and I believe 

 the county at large. With white or flesh-coloured flowers 1 find it 

 under the cliffs betwixt Sandown and Shanklin, 1842. About Bridge 

 by Godshill, Rookley, &c, not unfrequent, May, 1845. These are 

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