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Melittis Melissophyllum. Under bushes in dampish, shady woods 

 and copses, chiefly, if not exclusively, in the southern part of the 

 county, and not common there. Unknown in the Isle of Wight. In 

 West Wood, close by Netley Abbey, where I have gathered it in 

 plenty about fifteen years ago. Avington Wood ; Dr. A. D. White, 

 where I saw it, accompanied by the doctor for ray guide, in conside- 

 rable abundance last year. I believe it grows also in Armfield Wood, 

 a few miles from Winchester. In the New Forest; Hudson. Pro- 

 bably tolerably frequent in the woods of south Hants, but I have not 

 yet ascertained its distribution. This and Calamintha sylvatica are 

 the two finest of our British labiates. The flowers vary much in co- 

 lour, and are sometimes nearly white, as at Avington, where they 

 were extremely pale, whilst at Netley the blossoms were deeply co- 

 loured, as Curtis paints them in ' Flora Londinensis.' The fresh plant 

 has the weedy, unpleasant smell of the tribe (Stachydeae) to which it 

 belongs; when dried for the herbarium it becomes, on the contrary, 

 eminently fragrant, like woodruff or new hay. 



Lamium ample xicaule. In dry sandy or chalky fields, waste and 

 cultivated ground, gardens, fallows, about dunghills, &c, not unfre- 

 quent, but scarcely to be called very common with us, at least in the 

 Isle of Wight. Ryde, at Quarr Abbey, and elsewhere, occasionally. 

 More frequent on the greensand, about Sandown, Lake and Shanklin. 

 Frequent in sandy fields about Newchurch. Plentiful in a field near 

 Bordwood farm, 1843, and generally dispersed over the island and 

 county. Wolmer Forest, &c. 



incisum. In waste and cultivated ground occasionally, 



but not common, and I am strongly disposed to believe it only a va- 

 riety of L. purpureum. Amongst turnips in a field at Nettleston 

 Green, December, 1838. About Shanklin in several places, 1843. 

 Fields near Shanklin ; Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders !!! 



intermedium. In similar places with the last ; very rare ? 



Gathered May 27th, 1845, in some plenty, on sandy hedge-banks in 

 a lane betwixt Marvel Wood and Whitecroft, near Newport, in this 

 island, and at the time supposed to be a form of L. incisum, as ap- 

 pears by the label inscribed " L. incisum (an verum ?)," with the fol- 

 lowing remark beneath: "The leaves are somewhat greener or less 

 hoary and hirsute, and less wrinkled than in L. purpureum, and the 

 ring of hairs in the tube of the corolla is nearly or quite wanting." 

 Careful comparison with figures and descriptions from various authen- 

 tic sources, has convinced me that my Isle-of- Wight plant is the L. 

 intermedium of Fries, a species frequent in the north-western parts of 

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