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into the list of Hants plants in the ' New Botanist's Guide,' where the 

 station at Ripton must be expunged, as on referring to the authority 

 cited, that of the ' English Flora,' it will be seen that Ripton in Hunt- 

 ingdonshire is the place specially mentioned by Smith. Still, A. Bli- 

 tum is not an unlikely plant to occur within the county on waste 

 ground, dung-hills, and in gardens ; I am told it is persistent within 

 certain limits, and by no means rare on the Surrey side of the Thames 

 near London, at Wandsworth, if I recollect rightly, and as a weed in 

 garden ground. A. retroflexus would appear to have occurred (wild ?) 

 in Hertfordshire. It is frequent in the north of France, and I have 

 remarked either this or A. sylvcstris in plenty at Paris formerly. Po- 

 lycnemum arvcnse, an inconspicuous plant of dry, sandy fields, be- 

 longing to this order (Amaranthacerc) 1 should not think strange to 

 hear had been discovered in England. It is indigenous to France, 

 Belgium, and most parts of Germany. 



Schoberia maritima ( Chenopodium maritimum). On muddy sea- 

 shores, in salt-marshes, and about the mouths of tide rivers ; very 

 common both here and on the mainland of the county. Plentiful 

 along the Medina betwixt Cowes and Newport. Brading harbour and 

 Newtown salt marshes ; abundantly. Profusely in a salt-marsh mea- 

 dow at Springfield, near Ryde, which is covered with this species ex- 

 clusively. Shores of Portsmouth and Langston harbours, Hay ling 

 Island, &c, abundantly. Var. (3. Larger, steins spreading, procum- 

 bent, almost woody, root thick, ligneous, biennial ? (Wahlenb. Fl. 

 Suec. ed. altera, i. p. 168, supra). In loose sand at Springfield ; plen- 

 tifully. In Newtown marshes, as about Newtown Saltern, &c, abun- 

 dantly. 



Schoberia fruticosa (Chenopodium fruticosum) should be looked for 

 along the coast of Hants. It grows in profusion on a part of Poole 

 harbour called the Baiter, on a neck of land which is nearly an island 

 at high water, and is particularly abundant there near a small building 

 once a powder-magazine, and still known as the powder-house. On 

 this peninsula it forms large bushes, three or four feet high, with ex- 

 cessively hard and perfectly ligneous stems ; some of the oldest have 

 existed before Dr. Salter, who is a native of Poole, can remember, and 

 I cut down a stem as thick as my wrist some years ago, which was 

 nearly black with age. The plants do not grow on mud, but on the 

 diluvial deposit of the Poole basin, mixed, perhaps, with a proportion 

 of sea-sand. It may very possibly be found on some part of our 

 Hampshire line of coast, which, with its various indentations, is of con- 

 siderable extent, and has yet been but imperfectly and partially ex- 



