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Wm. Whale. Hambledon ; Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in 

 Haraps. Repos. In various other places, very generally dispersed. 



Var. B. Flowers larger, corolla more exserted. Close by the Old 

 Church sea-mark, St. Helen's, some years back, but it has since dis- 

 appeared. 



Salvia pratensis. On dry and especially chalky pastures, banks, 

 and borders of fields ; very rare. In an old chalk-pit in Appuldur- 

 combe Park ; Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! Through the kindness of that 

 lady, to whose exertions in examining the flora of this island and 

 parts of the county adjacent, I have so often had occasion to refer, I 

 possess a single, though indubitable specimen of this very local Bri- 

 tish native, which, on inquiry, I found had been gathered in the 

 above-mentioned locality by a groom of the late Lord Yarborough, 

 along with some other wild plants, in July, 1838, and forwarded in a 

 fresh state to Miss Kilderbee, at that time resident at West Cowes. I 

 have since sought for it at Appuldurcombe, but in vain. The park 

 is of great extent, and parts of it very sequestered and hilly ; unless, 

 therefore, some mistake was made as to locality, I hold the Salvia to 

 have been in all probability truly indigenous there. Near Brook- 

 wood, West Meon ; Rev. E. M. Sladen in litt. I have seen no ex- 

 ample from this station, Mr. S. not being in the habit of preserving 

 the plants remarked by him during his residence at Warnford. I can 

 see no reason, however, for assuming an error in this instance, as Mr. 

 S. was acquainted with our commoner species of Salvia, and the pre- 

 sent is too conspicuous a one to be easily confounded with that or 

 any other of our Labiatae. Moreover, S. pratensis has been found 

 plentifully in Oxfordshire by my friend Wm. Wilson Saunders, Esq., 

 and geographical reasons are not opposed to its occurrence as a ge- 

 nuine native of Hampshire, which I trust observations will ere long 

 confirm. I do not know the precise spot in which the Meadow Clary 

 was found by Mr. S., but on a rather hurried visit to the immediate 

 vicinity of the station a year or two back, I saw nothing of it.* 



Origanum vulgare. On dry banks and hilly pastures, in rough, 

 stony woods and steep bushy places ; in the greatest abundance over 

 the chalk districts of the Isle of Wight and mainland. Profusely 

 throughout the Undercliff, and very fine and abundant on the chalky 

 slopes of the wooded valley near Rowledge. Plentiful, indeed, every- 

 where on the cretaceous system of Hampshire, as at Selborne, Ham- 

 bledon, &c, &c, flourishing best in the upland parts of the county. 



* Abundant and perfectly wild at Cobham, in Kent. — Ed. 



