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Woods at Swains ton, Ape's Down, &c. Rather rare about Ryde, but 

 extremely common in the island generally. Plentiful about Winches- 

 ter and elsewhere on the chalk. 



Pinguicula vulgaris. In bogs ; rare ? Not yet detected in the 

 Isle of Wight. On Titchborne Common ; Mr. William Pamplin and 

 Mr. J. Forder. Gathered there in tolerable plenty in flower and fruit 

 June 22nd, 1849 !!! In a chalk-pit! close to the railroad at Bram- 

 bridge, near Olterbourne ; Mrs. Delme Radcliffe in the herbarium of 

 Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! Near Cranberry (Cranbury ?) and Forest of 

 Bere ; Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. In the 

 marsh by the ltchen, near Otterbourne, called the Common Mead ; 

 Miss A. M. Yonge. Bransbury Common, near Bullington ; Rev. D. 

 Cockerton. Mr. Curtis thinks it grows with P. lusitanica in the Bos- 

 combe Chine station, given below for that plant. The common But- 

 terwort doubtless exists in other parts of Hants, but is much less 

 frequent in the south than in the north of England. 



lusitanica. In spongy bogs and moist heathy places, 



rare, but apparently less so than the preceding species. First found in 

 the Isle of Wight in July, 1839, by Miss G. E. Kilderbee, on a piece 

 of boggy ground called Little Moor, just below Cockleton farm, near 

 West Cowes, in considerable plenty !'.! On Colwell Heath, Fi*eshwa- 

 ter, but sparingly. These are the only stations known to me at pre- 

 sent in the island for this truly western and maritime species, which 

 attains in this county its most easterly English limit. Abundant at 

 the wet base of the cliffs at the mouth of Boscombe Chine, near 

 Bournmouth (the fashionable watering place five miles west of Christ- 

 church); Mr. Curtis (Icon, ex loco in Brit. Entom. vol. viii. tab. 341). 

 " In several of the boggy places on Shidfield Common (near Wick- 

 ham), above Mr. Denny's, but farther south from the road, below a 

 bank in wet ground, and also in wet ground below (i. e., south) of the 

 church ;" Miss Hawkins. I suspect this station, from its rather in- 

 land position, may really belong to P. vulgaris. In bogs near Ston- 

 ham, and in places a little north of Southampton ; Sir J. Banks in 

 Bot. Guide. Townhill Common (South ton ?) ; Mr. Winch in New 

 Bot. Guide. According to the authors of the old 'Botanist's Guide,' 

 the species is stated to be "common in this county" on the authority 

 of Hudson, probably from his verbal testimony, as Hudson does not 

 say so in the ' Flora Anglica,' and the assertion is scarcely a correct 

 one, certainly not so as respects the county at large, since it is only 

 on and near the coast that this species of Pinguicula is to be found 

 at all. 



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