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from Southsea Castle, evidently former garden ground, but now waste, 

 and railed off for building-lots, growing with abundance of Mercuria- 

 lis annua, and a number of plants of the variety of Datura Stramonium 

 with purple stems and flowers (D. Tatula, /,.), which last I had never 

 seen naturalized in England till now, November 5th, 1849. At Clay- 

 hall, betwixt Gosport and Alverstoke. At Lymington, Christchurch, 

 and at Avon, near Sopley, 1849. Lower Quay, Fareham ; Mr. VV. 

 L. Notcutt ! A widely-dispersed species, which I have gathered at 

 New York, and notably about Norfolk, in Virginia. C. hybridum may 

 with reason be expected in the county. Dr. Salter finds it in his father's 

 garden at Poole, but 1 should think it had become naturalized there 

 through casual introduction. Also native to America as well as Eu- 

 rope : I have collected it near Montreal, and in Canada West. 



Chenopodiiim rubrum. In similar places with the last, but a paludal 

 and even sylvestral species occasionally, not as that merely ruderal, 

 septal or viatical, occurring in low muddy or wet sandy places, salt- 

 marshes or margins of rivers and ponds ; more commonly, however, 

 in rich waste ground about houses, farms, and on dunghills, &c. A 

 very rare species in the Isle of Wight. On a manure-heap by Gate- 

 house farm, a few miles from Ryde, sparingly, October 7th, 1844. In 

 considerable plenty on an old compost-heap by Ningwood Green 

 farm, near Shalfleet, August 1st, 1845. In a truly wild and natural 

 station on the half-dried-up muddy edge of the pond near Harding- 

 shoot farm, in great plenty, September 30th, 1844. In the two for- 

 mer stations the plant is now, 1 believe, quite extinct, but it may be 

 found with certainty every year at Hardingshoot, in tolerably dry sea- 

 sons, when the water has left the flat margin of the pond uncovered, 

 but in a most remarkably dwarf state, the largest specimens being 

 under two inches high, and many can be covered with the tip of the 

 finger. The stems are either quite simple or branching from the root, 

 and prostrate on the mud to the extent of one, two, or even three 

 inches. When sown or removed into a garden, the plants are deve- 

 loped into the usual erect form of the species as seen in waste ground, 

 or on dunghills. Freshwater Gate ; Mr. W. D. Snooke in Fl. Vect. ; 

 but I have never seen it there, nor have I any station to give for this 

 species as yet on mainland Hants, although its occurrence there can 

 hardly be doubted. This species has been separated from Chenopo- 

 diiim and removed to Blitum, but it has neither the habit nor the en- 

 larged succulent perianth of that genus; the stamens vary from one or 

 two to five (mostly, I believe, three), the seed is partly vertical, partly 

 horizontal, as in some other true Chenopodiums, of which it has per- 



