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mus europaeus, for which he informs us he could find none in Eng- 

 lish at that time, a fact that should teach us caution how we assume 

 a tree or shrub not to be indigenous because unfurnished with any 

 ancient or vernacular name. In like manner we owe the name of 

 Pasque-flower for Anemone Pulsatilla to Gerarde, who was " moved" 

 thereto, as he informs us, from its flowering about Easter. 



Lysimachia nemorum. In moist shady places, woods, thickets, 

 groves, on damp hedge-banks and by the grassy margins of rills, &c. ; 

 frequent over the county and island. About Ryde, in Quarr Copse, 

 Apley Wood, St. John's Wood and elsewhere, frequent. Plentiful in 

 woods near Appuldurcombe and along the Wootton River. Apse 

 Castle, near Shanklin, Parsonage Lynch Newchurch, and many other 

 places. In the membranaceous, pellucid, globose capsules, having 

 five valves, but mostly opening transversely ; in the subhemispherical 

 seeds, rough with wart-like and finally chaffy or scaly granulations ; 

 in the free stamens, and its general structure and habit, this plant is 

 as much an Anagallis as a Lysimachia, or even more so. 



Anagallis arvensis. In cultivated and waste ground, corn-fields, 

 on dry banks, by way-sides, in pastures, woods and under walls, &c. ; 

 abundant in all parts of the county and Isle of Wight. Var. carnea. 

 Flowers pale pink or rose-colour, with a purple eye. Under the cliff 

 a little way from the Chine, Shanklin, July, 1842. Border of a field 

 betwixt Weeks 1 s and Little Smallbrook, near Ryde, 1837; Miss T. 

 Price ! but I could not find it the following year. On a piece of 

 waste ground at the upper end of Dover Street, Ryde; Miss Lucas !!! 

 Field near Shanklin, by the footway from thence towards Luccombe ; 

 Miss Kirkpatrick !!! Near Barnsley farm; Dr. T. B. Salter !! Var. 

 y. cserulea. Flowers sky-blue. A. caerulea, Sm. Rare in fields, &c. 

 Field between Westridge and St. John's, October, 1839. Hedge-bank 

 in Quarr Copse, a single specimen ; the dowager Lady Knowles ! 

 Field at St. Clare, near the sea, 1844; the Lady Catherine Harcourt. 

 Sandown, on a piece of waste ground near the sea ; Miss S. Lovell ! 

 At Bonchurch ; Dr. Martin. Near Christchurch ; Mr. J. Hussey. I 

 have no other mainland stations as yet to record for either of the 

 above varieties. 



In my Isle-of- Wight specimens of y. the stems are equally procum- 

 bent, and the whole plant, with the exception of the rather smaller 

 and differently-coloured flowers, in all points exactly similar to the 

 common scarlet kind, amongst which it was growing. In both, the 

 edges of the corolla are finely fringed and crenulate, and that in an 

 equal degree. The leaves of the blue pimpernel are often lanceolate, 



