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fectly the habit and appearance, closely approaching C. urbicum, 

 which is often mistaken for it. C. botryoides, a species I have no 

 practical acquaintance with, should be looked for along the sea-coast. 



Chenopodium glaucum. In low, rich, waste ground and on dung- 

 hills, &c. ; very rare. Abundantly on a piece of low waste ground at 

 Thorley, near Yarmouth, just outside of Thorley farm-yard, near the 

 church, betwixt the churchyard and the high road, 1837. On an old 

 manure-heap in the park at Swainston, with stems quite procumbent, 

 August, 1839, sparingly. Still there, and in somewhat increased 

 quantity, in September, 1842, but lost, by the removal of the heap, in 

 1843. Springing again in 1844 in some plenty from the ground 

 where the heap had stood, but not since observed. At Thorley this 

 rare British species is fully established, and may be obtained every 

 year, but is sometimes covered under the compost from the adjoining 

 farm, which is periodically deposited on the spot, and then the plant 

 can only be gathered in small quantity on the contiguous muddy soil, 

 but when the bulk of manure is small, the vacant space is covered 

 with this Chenopodium. I am not aware of any station for the pre- 

 sent species on the mainland of the county. In the specimens from 

 this island I find the central flowers of each cluster or glomerule ele- 

 vated on a very short and thick peduncle, and bearing a horizontal 

 seed, the lateral flowers clustered around the footstalk of the central 

 one, and carrying vertical seeds.* Perianth three or four-cleft. I 

 found this species in moist spots in the Navy-yard at Philadelphia, 

 and on waste ground in the city itself: it had not, I believe, been 

 previously noticed in the United States. 



Bonus-Henricus. In waste ground, about towns, on vil- 

 lage-greens, by road-sides, in churchyards and about farm-houses ; 

 by no means common in the Isle of Wight; much more frequent on 

 the mainland of the county. Farm-yard at Ninham, near Kyde. 

 Near Quarr Abbey, very sparingly. Farm-yard at Apse, near Shank- 

 lin, abundant. At Rew farm, near Appuldurcombe, and abundant by 

 the road- side opposite the same. At Wellow, Arreton, Shanklin, 

 Gottens, and elsewhere in the island, occasionally. At Bishopstoke ; 

 Blackmore farm, Wolmer Forest. By the church at Crux Easton, 

 and at Kingsclere. At Hambledon in several places ; Petersfield ; 

 near farm-houses betwixt Clanfield and East Meon, in plenty ; Sel- 



* There would seem to be no certainty in the position of the seeds in this species. 

 Koch found them more frequently horizontal than vertical, just the reverse of my own 

 experience. 



