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Extremely common about Newchurch in waste ground and hedge- 

 rows. Plentiful betwixt Newport and Carisbrook, and along the road 

 from thence to Shorwell, where I gathered it having the flowers faintly 

 tinged with red on the back of the upper lip of the corolla. At East 

 Cowes, at the top of the new plantations, and in many other parts of 

 the island abundantly. 



Lamium Galeohdolon (Galeob. luteumj. In moist, shady places, 

 woods, groves and under hedges ; plentifully in various parts of the 

 Isle of Wight. Most abundantly in all the woods about Shanklin, 

 Luccombe and Bonchurch. At Apse Castle, Appuldurcombe, Steep- 

 hill, and in the Undercliff generally. About Cowes, Newport, Ryde, 

 Gatecomb, and many other places, the tawny spotted flowers of the 

 yellow archangel are seen mingling profusely with the blue bells of 

 the wild hyacinth, and the white starry blossoms of the bear's garlick, 

 in our shady woods, while they are amongst the earliest of Flora's 

 gladsome train to enliven the spring. Common, I believe, over 

 the entire county, but I have not noted its distribution with attention. 

 In the beech-hangers at Buriton, near Petersfield, and I have re- 

 marked it in other places. Andover ; Mr. Wm. Whale. 



\Leonuru8 Cardiaca* In hedges and waste places, about fences, 

 and by road-sides ; very rare in Hampshire, and probably not indi- 

 genous. Unknown, as yet, in the Isle of Wight. Hedge on Otter- 

 bourne Hill ; Miss A. Yonge !!! Half a mile from Upham, on the 

 road to Durley, on a high bank on the left hand going to Durley ; 



* Many wild plants once popular as articles of diet or medicine have long outlived 

 their uses, and even the memory of them amongst us, as I have instanced in the Alex- 

 anders {Smyrnium Olusatrum). Others still preserve their credit as " yerbs " of great 

 efficacy amongst rural practitioners of the empiric class, such as centaury, bear's-foot 

 (Helleborus fcetidus), five-fingered grass (Potentilla reptans), &c; and I was lately ap- 

 plied to on behalf of a young woman to know where in this island she could obtain a 

 supply of " Arabacca" (evidently Asarabacca, Asaram europceum), which she had been 

 ordered to take by an itinerant quack, I know not for what complaint, and directed 

 by him to look for in the woods as " a plant with round leaves, like coltsfoot." The 

 poor girl might have looked long enough before she found the remedy she was in 

 search of, a proof, too, this, of the ignorance and presumption of these " herb-doctors," 

 who go about the country extracting from the pockets of their indigent and credulous 

 patients their hard earnings, and directing them the use of remedies unsafe to tamper 

 with from their potency, or even impossible to be procured, as in the case just cited. 

 Dr. Salter and myself were not long since accosted by a person on Wolmer Forest, 

 with a request that we would step to his house hard by, and tell him the name and 

 nature of a plant that had puzzled all the wise heads in the neighbourhood, and 

 transcended, he told us, the lore of a professed and experienced herbalist of Peters- 

 field, who had never seen anything like it till then. The plant turned out to be the 



