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of Lake Common. Extremely abundant on Apse Heath, growing 

 even amongst potatoes on newly turned-up land, Oct. 2, 1839. Com- 

 mon about the foot of Bleak Down ; around Lash mere Pond,* &c., 

 1843. In various parts of San clown Level, and elsewhere in the 

 island. Peaty bogs on Wolmer Forest, and if I remember well on 

 Petersfield Heath. Path leading from Baddesley (from Otterbourne) 

 across the (Cranbury ?) common ; Miss A. M. Yonge. Hinton ; 

 Rev. E. M. Sladen. 



Prunella vulgaris. A common plant everywhere in meadows, pas- 

 tures, fields and hedges ; by road-sides, in heathy ground, woods, 

 thickets and waste places. 



Nepela Cataria. On gravelly and chalky banks, in waste places, 

 along fences, hedges and road-sides, in dry situations ; rare in the 

 Isle of Wight, and T think unfrequent in the county generally. A 

 plant or two close to the garden-gate at Truckles, near Ryde ; Dr. T. 

 Bell Salter : probably introduced originally !!! At Ventnor, by the 

 Crab and Lobster, very sparingly (Dr. G. A. Martin !!!), and on a 

 heap of stone rubbish a little to the east, below the road near Flint 

 Cottage ; Rev. G. E. Smith. Gravel-pit near Calbourne Bottom. 

 Weston farm, Freshwater (a few plants just within the fence by the 

 road-side); Mr. W. D. Suooke. Scome Tower; Id. In 1839 I 

 found it in truly natural situations amongst brushwood on the rocks 

 behind Bonchurch, in several places, but I doubt if it has escaped 

 destruction from the recent buildings that now cover that once se- 

 cluded spot. A plant or two by the road-side between Old Park and 

 Mirables, 1844. Bridle road to Hursley, from Oliver's Battery, near 

 Winton ; Dr. A. D. White. Near to Wherwell, by the road-side, ra- 

 ther plentifully, and again by the side of the road to Enham, about 

 half a mile from Andover ; Mr. Wm. Whale ! In the old London 

 road, and near Walworth Gate (Andover), about half a score of plants 

 in each place ; Id. 



glechoma ( Glech. hederacea.). Abundant on hedge and 



ditch-banks, in damp gardens, orchards, woods, groves and other 

 moist shady places. I found a variety with remarkably glabrous 

 shining leaves, and very deep blue flowers, in the Duke of Welling- 

 ton's park at Strath fields aye, in May last, — the result possibly of 

 excessive shade and humidity. 



* This pond, properly Leechmere, from the number of officinal leeches it supplied 

 to the surgeons and druggists of Newport, is now all hut drained, and many of the 

 plants that flourished there have disappeared in consequence. 



