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this county, being a species indigenous to most parts of central Eu- 

 rope, as France, Germany and Belgium. 



Ajuga rep tans. In moist woods, thickets, pastures and shady 

 places ; abundantly over the island and county. Var. 0. Flowers 

 light purple, pink or flesh-coloured ; rare. In Quarr Copse and Ap- 

 ley Wood, near Ryde. Var. y. Flowers pure white ; occasionally. 

 A patch in the wood adjoining to Calbourne New Barn (New Barn 

 Hummet), June, 8th, 1844, and observed in the same place not un- 

 frequently the following year. I have also picked this variety near 

 Ryde. Whitedell ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. " Abounds in the Isle of 

 Wight ;" Sm. in Engl. Fl., but this can scarcely be said of it at the 

 present day, although somewhat more frequent than the flesh-coloured 

 form with us. 



Chamapitys. In dry, sandy, gravelly or chalky fields, and 



rough, stony ground ; very rare ? A dubious inhabitant of the Isle 

 of Wight, reported to me as growing about Week farm, near Niton, 

 along with Melampyrum arvense, but though a very likely station to 

 produce it, this species has never occurred to my observation there or 

 elsewhere in the island. On Longwood Warren ; Rev. Messrs. Gar- 

 nier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. !!! The plant grows here on the 

 bare stony gravel or diluvial deposit, but would seem to be uncertain 

 in its appearance and in amount, as I have not succeeded in finding 

 more than a few very small specimens, but have seen larger and more 

 abundant ones from thence in the possession of others. About Old 

 Alresford ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin. Abbotston Warren ; Mr. J. Forder. 

 When last at Alresford, I learnt from Mr. F. that the plant is very ca- 

 pricious in this station also, nor have I myself seen it in or from that 

 neighbourhood. 



N. B. — Hyssop {Hyssopus officinalis, L.), is perfectly and abun- 

 dantly naturalized on the ruins of the beautiful and romantically situ- 

 ated Abbey of Beaulieu in the New Forest, particularly on the walls 

 and in the area of the cloisters ; now as fully established and perma- 

 nent as the wall-flower, calaminth, pellitory, and other mural plants 

 that flourish on the picturesque remains of that once "proud abbaye." 

 Still partially in flower, October 9th, 1849. 



Verbena officinalis. Of extremely common occurrence throughout 

 the county and Isle of Wight, on dry banks, along hedges, road-sides, 

 in waste ground, churchyards, &c, also, but less frequently, in pas- 

 tures and woods remote from habitations. A truly indigenous Eng- 

 lish plant, although found most abundantly in the lower enclosed and 

 inhabited country, yet occasionally haunting very sequestered spots. 



