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able variety of this plant has been noticed for some years past by Mr. 

 Albert Hambrough, amongst long grass at Steephill, growing with an 

 upright stem, and bearing a solitary terminal flower on a long peduncle, 

 of a fine blue and nearly as large as the blossom of V. Chamaedrys !!! 

 A widely-naturalized species abroad, which I have gathered even at 

 New Orleans. 



Veronica polita. With the preceding, and perhaps not much less 

 frequent than it over the county and island. The var. (3. grandiflora 

 of Babington's Manual is probably an analogous form to that alluded 

 to of the foregoing species, but 1 have never met with it in Hampshire. 



% Buxbaumii. Naturalized in waste ground, cultivated 



fields, and on hedge-banks in the Isle of Wight ; rare, but 1 believe 

 now well established. First noticed by me in 1844, as a weed, in the 

 garden of a person named Herbert, at the south end of Royal Heath, 

 Sandown, as well as in a field adjacent, and about the former barracks. 

 In 1845 and 1846 I found it in very great profusion on the waste lots 

 of that unlucky speculation yclept East Cowes Park, which not even 

 proximity to royalty can help to colonize. In the ground at Binstead ; 

 Mr. Albert Hambrough ! I have no station as yet to record for this 

 handsome Veronica on the mainland of the county, but can scarcely 

 doubt its occurrence there as a denizen, now pretty generally natu- 

 ralized throughout Britain. 



hederifolia. In waste and cultivated ground, fields, gar- 

 dens and on hedge-banks ; most abundantly. Our tillage-lands and 

 lay-fields are often covered with the ivy-leaved Speedwell in the 

 spring and early summer months. 



Mentha rotundifolia . In damp pastures, hedges, wet thickets, and 

 moist places by road-sides, also on the margins of ponds, ditches and 

 streams. Truly wild in several parts of the Isle of Wight, princi- 

 pally in East Medina. In old native pasture-ground in the Under- 

 cliff, in various places, very abundantly, as about St. Lawrence, Old 

 Park, Puckaster, &c. Rare about Ryde. At Binstead, sparingly. 

 Hedges near Adgeton, in a field by White House farm, and by the 

 pond in the farm-yard at the Grove. Near Newchurch, and abun- 

 dantly in meadows near Lower Knighton Mill. Niton Village. By 

 the stream at Bridge and Budbridge. At Brixton, and near Ather- 

 field and elsewhere in the island. Apparently very rare on mainland 

 Hants. Pretty plentifully in a wet hedge at Meonstoke, near the lit- 

 tle bridge of the stream on the Corhampton side, Aug. 21, 1849. 

 Road-side near Alton ; Mr. E. Forster, jun., in Bot. Guide. These 

 are the only stations known to me in this part of the county, but 



