750 



the simple spiked to the subcymose character, complete in these ca- 

 sual specimens. 



Chenopodinm album. In cultivated and waste ground, fields, gardens, 

 on rubbish, dunghills, &c, most abundantly everywhere. Var. /3. 

 viride, C. viride, L. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, more or less (often 

 quite) entire, inflorescence cymo.se, racemes nearly leafless, straight or 

 recurved. Common. Obs. — C. ficifolium must be expunged from 

 the Hampshire flora, its occurrence at Wallington, near Fareham, as 

 given by Mr. Notcutt in his Catalogue of the Plants of that vicinity 

 (Phytol. ii. 211), being, as Mr. N. informs me, a mistake on his part. 



C. opulifolium, a species too closely, I should fear, akin to C. album, 

 and differing chiefly in its broader, blunter, almost three-lobed leaves, 

 will probably be found in England eventually. 



murale. In waste and cultivated places, kitchen gardens, 



under walls and in bye-streets of towns, on dunghills, rubbish-heaps, 

 &c, but not common. Rare in the Isle of Wight. At East Cowes 

 in several places ; sparingly. At Yarmouth and Ningwood. In 

 Northwood Park ; very sparingly, September, 1844. Rather frequent 

 at Newchurch, in the neglected cottagers' gardens, and at the vicar- 

 age. Under the rocky cliff on the right-hand side of the road from 

 St. Lawrence to Niton, a little beyond the turning off (at the shoot) 

 to Whitwell, in plenty, growing with Beta maritima; Miss O. Had- 

 field ! I am induced to believe there must have been some mistake 

 in the locality, as, although the specimen is an indubitable one of C. 

 murale, I have never seeu this species growing beyond the bounds of 

 cultivation, or at least remote from the abodes of man. The station 

 in question is under a mass of rock, high up on the steep bank above 

 the road, in a pei-fectly wild, retired situation, and on visiting it for 

 the purpose of verifying the correctness of the habitat, I found no 

 trace of the Chenopodium, whilst of the Beta there was still abun- 

 dance. At Newport, Freshwater, Sandown, &c, in plenty ; Mr. W. 



D. Snooke (in Fl. Vect.) ; but there is, I think, no doubt that C. ur- 

 bicurn was the plant intended in that little work, as C. murale has 

 never been seen by me in the alleged places, and so far from being 

 plentiful, the plant is remarkably sporadic with us wherever it does 

 occur. Apparently not very unfrequent along the coast of the main- 

 land, and its two adjacent islands of Portsea and Hayling. In the 

 latter I found it last year and this, in considerable plenty on a bank of 

 sea-weed, close behind the ferryman's house, opposite Cumberland 

 Fort, and have picked it in the former at Milton. In considerable 

 plenty on an extensive plot of ground about half a mile or less inland 



