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low meadows and pastures in the greatest abundance about Sowley, 

 Eastend, &c. I have received notices of its occurrence from several 

 friends and correspondents, but all these stations being in the above 

 mentioned districts of south Hants, it is needless quoting localities 

 for a plant so universally distributed and abundant as this. Probably 

 equally common in the north of the county, although my notes con- 

 tain no memoranda of its having been remarked in that quarter by 

 myself or others. In very shady, wet thickets the leaves are some- 

 times deep green, shining and glabrous above, the whole plant ex- 

 tremely luxuriant, in which state I have gathered it between Apse and 

 Ninham, near Shanklin, above six feet in height. The beautiful va- 

 riety having the base of the coi'olla fulvous within, and red or orange 

 stamens, is frequent on the Wilderness, and elsewhere in this island. 

 Capsules in some situations not perfected, in others copiously matured, 

 5-10valved?, usually, I think, indehiscent. The numerous reddish 

 or cream-coloured, angular seeds are covered with a friable mealy 

 coat (testa), giving them the aspect of little fragments of chalk or 

 pipe-clay. 



Lysimachia Nummularia. In damp meadows and pastures, on 

 ditch-banks, by stream-sides, the margins of ponds, and in other 

 watery situations, but not common. Not yet ascertained to be a 

 genuine native of the Isle of Wight. Found a few years since in some 

 abundance by Mr. Wm. Jolliffe, groom to R. Milligan, Esq., of Ryde, 

 in a field exactly opposite Lord Spencer's house, growing in a cavity 

 made for planting a tree !!! The hole has since been filled up, and 

 the plant destroyed, which, if not designedly introduced,' had estab- 

 lished itself there from some neighbouring garden. Above the shore 

 near West Cowes ; Rev. W. H. Coleman, but who is not certain of 

 the correctness of his observation. About the edges of the pool in 

 which Hottonia palustris grows at Aldershot, near Farnham. Damp 

 meadow ground in the Duke of Wellington's park at Strath fieldsaye, 

 June, 1848. Wet ground by the Boldre River, just below Brocken- 

 hurst Bridge, July, 1849. Netley Wood and Selborne; Miss L. Sib- 

 ley. Side of Titchfield River ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Probably dis- 

 persed over the entire mainland of the county, but its apparently total 

 absence from this island cannot be accounted for by the want of places 

 congenial to its growth. A favourite plant with the class of " window 

 gardeners" in London. The Latin name was anglicized into Herb- 

 twopence by Turner, from a fancied resemblance he perceived in the 

 leaves to (silver) pennies, " by copies one against another." The 

 same old herbalist first imposed the name of Spindle-tree on Euony- 



