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lane at Aldershot, near Farnham ; Mr. W. 0. Newnham !!! This, the 

 only Hants station as yet known to me for the above beautiful aquatic, 

 is just within our limits, being close to the west side of the stream 

 called the Blackwater, which separates Hampshire from Surrey. It 

 will doubtless be found in other quarters of the county, being not un- 

 frequent in many parts of Sussex, Surrey and Middlesex, and has in- 

 deed been indicated to me with some doubt by Miss L. Minchin as 

 observed by her at Soberton, on the north of the Forest of Bere. The 

 American H. inflata, which I have gathered in the States of Rhode 

 Island and Georgia, though vastly inferior in appearance to the Eu- 

 ropean species, from the small size of its white, inconspicuous flowers, 

 hardly larger than in our Samolus Valerandi, and somewhat resembling 

 them, is a most singular plant, the scapes being swollen or inflated 

 between the verticils to the thickness of the finger, and having the as- 

 pect of being constricted at intervals by tightly-drawn ligatures. If 

 this be a provision for floating the flower-scapes, it would seem to be 

 less needed in the American than in our own species, for the former 

 grows freely rooting on wet mud, whilst the other never, I think, 

 flourishes except where the lower part of the plant is entirely sub- 

 merged. 



Lysimacliia vulgaris. In wet or boggy meadows, thickets, osier- 

 beds, on ditch-banks and about the margins of ponds, rivers and 

 brooks. Abundantly in many parts of the Isle of Wight, but rather 

 locally distributed, and by far the most common in East Medina. In 

 various parts of Sandown Level, and throughout the valley of the East 

 Yar from Yarbtidge to Horringford Bridge, in ditches and swampy 

 thickets, as about Newchurch, Alverston, Lake and Blackpan Com- 

 mons, &c, in great plenty. Along the Medina River, in some places 

 in profusion, especially between Rookley and Cridmore, on the Wil- 

 derness, &c. Very common about Godshill, by Bagwich, at Bridge 

 and Budbridge, Bowbridge, &c. Marsh at Easton, Freshwater Gate. 

 In Pan Moor, by Newport (Mr. G. Kirkpatrick), and numberless 

 other places. Extremely common in mainland Hants, at least towards 

 the south coast. At Bishop's Stoke, Southampton, Winchester (about 

 King's Worthy, &c), Petersfield, and elsewhere in East Hants. In 

 vast abundance, almost covering some of the boggy meadows nearest 

 the shore to the west of Alverstoke, near Gosport. Bog on Titch field 

 Common. Plentiful in West Hants, in the New Forest and Christ- 

 church hundreds, about Boldre, Lymington, in the Avon betwixt 

 Christchurch and Ringwood. Most profusely about Sowley Pond, a 

 fine sheet of water about three miles east of Lymington, and in all the 

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