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unquestionable Isle-of- Wight plant, of which I have more than once 

 received Vectian examples, yet could never light upon it myself; in- 

 deed, it has never greeted my eyes in any part of England, although 

 by no means a very uncommon Orchis in most quarters of the king- 

 dom. Eufragia viscosa abounds in the adjoining county of Dorset, 

 about Poole, the flora of which has a decidedly western character, and 

 to the eastward it has been found in Sussex, at Bexhill, probably its 

 extreme limit in that direction. In Ireland I found it on deep spongy 

 bogs in the counties of Cork and Kerry. Grisebach's name of Eu- 

 fragia is objectionable, as too close in sound to Euphrasia. 



Euphrasia officinalis. In meadows, pastures, woods, and on dry 

 heaths, &c, abundant everywhere. 



Odontites. Universally plentiful in pastures, woods, 



waste places, borders of fields, by way sides, amongst corn, &c, whe- 

 ther dry or moist. Var. &. Flowers white. Near Ryde ; Mr. Wm. 

 Wilson Saunders. A specimen with the flowers remarkably distant 

 was gathered some years back by Captain Beckford, R.N., I believe 

 near Cowes ! 



N. B. — Sihlhorpia europcea should be looked out for in damp, 

 shady, boggy places along the margins of rivulets, since, though quite 

 a western plant, its range extends eastward into Sussex, where I ga- 

 thered fine specimens some years ago on the only known station for it 

 in that county, by a boggy stream on Waldron Down, near Uckfield. 



Wm. A. Brom field. 



Eastmouut, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 

 August 6, 1849. 



(To be continued.) 



Who knows Viola canina ? By Hewett C. W'atson, Esq. 



Who knows Viola canina ? To this question, three years ago, 

 every English botanist might have answered, unhesitatingly, " Every- 

 body ;" meaning, thereby, himself and all other the botanophilists of 

 Britain. And yet, gentle readers of the ' Phytologist,' who are col- 

 lectors of English specimens, forty-nine in fifty of you had then in 

 your herbaria, and likely enough is it that nine in ten of you still have 

 there, a plant so labelled which is not thus designated by the leading 

 continental botanists, and which (I much fear) is destined shortly to 

 lose that familiar pame in England. 



