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common. Var. (3. Leaves all shortly stalked. Near Shanklin ; Miss 

 E. Kirkpatrick. Field at Lower Morton, by Sandown. The var. am- 

 bigua (S. ambigua, Sm.), which differs from this in its broader, more 

 cordate leaves, and which occurs in Sussex, Mr. A. Hambrough tells 

 me he found by the side of a new road between Ryde and Sea View. 



Stachys arvensis. In waste and cultivated ground, fallows, and dry 

 open fields ; very frequent in the Isle of Wight, and I believe through- 

 out the county. Common about Ryde in the autumn, amongst tur- 

 nips, potatoes, &c. 



Obs. — S. annua, which is a common weed in various parts of cen- 

 tral Europe, and has been found at Gadshill, in Kent, will in all pro- 

 bability prove to be native to the south-east of England, though at 

 present supposed to have been imported with grass-seed in its only 

 known station. I have seen it abundantly about Paris, and in Ger- 

 many. S. recta, also indigenous to the north of France, and in Nor- 

 mandy, may some day become accredited to the English flora. The 

 recent confirmation of Teucrium Botrys as indubitably wild at Box 

 Hill, teaches us that we may look forward with confidence to the dis- 

 covery of many more continental plants in the south and east of Eng- 

 land, the flora of which is every year assimilating to that of the main- 

 land of Europe, by the detection in increased abundance of recently 

 discovered species, or the addition of others entirely new to Britain. 



Ballota nigra. Var. a. B. fcetida, Lain., Bab. Man. p. 252. In 

 dry waste places, borders of woods and fields, amongst rubbish, and 

 on hedge-banks ; everywhere, but in greatest plenty in general on ap- 

 proaching towns and villages. One of the commonest plants of its 

 order in this part of England, occurring profusely in almost every 

 hedge throughout the Isle of WJght, and in most, if not all, parts of 

 the county equallly abundant. Var. &. Flowers white ; rare. By 

 the road-side immediately opposite Rew farm, near Ventnor, and in 

 a lane near Merston. Between Freshwater Gate and Farringford 

 Hill ; Mr. W. D. Snooke. I am at this time unable to say to which 

 of the two supposed species my Merston plant and that of Mr. Snooke 

 are referrible, but the Rew-farm specimens plainly belong to the B. fce- 

 tida of Lamarck, in having very broad, shortly acuminate and recurved 

 calyx-teeth, as does also the white-flowered form in a field-hedge be- 

 tween Idlecombe farm and Bottomground Rew, which I found grow- 

 ing with the common purple-flowered state, in moderate quantity and 

 still in good flowei-ing condition, October 28, 1845. But at St. Law- 

 rence I have gathered a white-flowered Ballota exactly corresponding 

 to the B. ruderalis of Fries, the calyx of which is longer, narrower, 



