THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Aknold Eromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 744). 



Plantago major. In meadows, pastures, waste places and by road- 

 sides ; everywhere extremely common. 



A few specimens of P. Psyllium, arenaria or Cynops (I am unable 

 to distinguish between these three in the dried state), were found on 

 the loose sand of the Dover at Ryde, in May, 1843, by Thos. Brown, 

 Esq., with one of which he kindly presented me. The specimen is 

 small and stunted, and agrees better with P. Cynops, I think, than 

 with the other two species. Both this and P. Psyllium are rather 

 southern plants, and the Ryde specimens, to whichever of the three 

 kinds mentioned above they belong, have in all probability been casu- 

 ally introduced, and have since disappeared or been eradicated by 

 recent improvements. P. arenaria, nevertheless, may reasonably be 

 expected to prove a British species, as it inhabits many of the neigh- 

 bouring countries of the continent as far north as Hamburgh. 



Littorella lacustris. On the margins and in the shallows of pools, 

 lakes, canals, &c. ; rare ? Not yet noticed in the Isle of Wight. 

 " Wolmer and Frensham Ponds are in a manner paved with it ;" Mr. 

 Wm. Pamplin. I have seen it in the former station. Wolmer Forest 

 and Shortheath; Dr. T. Bell Salter!!! Plentiful in Sowley Pond 

 (three miles E. of Lymington) "in large beds quite under water;" Mr. 

 Robert Jefferd !! Probably frequent on the old forest district of the 

 county. 



Obs. — I omit Amaranthus Blitum from the catalogue of the plants 

 of this county, although it has been indicated to me by the Rev. E. 

 M. Sladen as growing at Warnford, near West Meon, because I think 

 it very possible that some species of Chenopodium (probably C. po- 

 lyspermum) was mistaken for it by Mr. S. It has inadvertently crept 

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