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naturalized from the garden of which the pond forms as it were a part. 

 Truly wild in damp meadows on the mainland, although certainly not 

 common. 1 found it some years ago in great plenty in a moist mea- 

 dow near North or South Stoneham, a few miles from Southampton, 

 in full flower in August, but the memorandum of the exact locality 

 and date is at this moment mislaid ; these documents not then being- 

 preserved with the same method and regularity as at present, and en- 

 tered in a book kept expressly for the purpose, like the Sybilline 

 leaves, I sometimes find not to be consulted when wanted for reference. 

 Formerly by the stream side (ltchen river) above Deangate Mill, 

 Winton (close to the city on the north side, at the entrance to Win- 

 nal water-meadows) ; Dr. A. D. White : but not now to be found 

 there, as I have ascertained myself, and the station might perhaps be 

 deemed suspicious from its vicinity to the town. Warnford ; Mr. 

 Vickery : and Cheriton; Miss L. Sibley. Near Gill Copse (Fareham) ; 

 Mr. W. L. Notcutt !! Probably genuine stations, but I cannot an- 

 swer for their being so. I found, September 17th, 1848, a single spe- 

 cimen in a meadow betwixt Selborne and Oakhanger, but certainly 

 wild and still in flower. 



Polygonum amphibium. In ponds, ditches, marshes, and low wet 

 meadows. Frequent in the county, but not so in the Isle of Wight, 

 and very rarely flowering in the latter. Var. a. natans. Floating ; 

 leaves broadly oblongo-lanceolate, smooth and shining. Var. (3. ter- 

 restre. Erect ; leaves lanceolate, and as well as the stipules hairy on 

 both sides. The former is certainly rare in this island, at least in the 

 flowering state. In a small pond near the road-side, just out of 

 Kingston, on the way to Shorwell, in plenty and flowering freely. A 

 most conspicuous ornament to the pond on Petersfield Heath. Fre- 

 quent, I have no doubt, in various parts of the county, though I have 

 no memoranda to that effect. The var. |3. occurs in several parts of 

 the Isle of Wight in plenty, but very rarely flowering. Abundantly 

 in a hollow by the road-side on the left hand, a few hundred yards 

 beyond the turnpike going from Yarmouth to Shalfleet. In Sandown 

 marshes, and at Freshwater Gate. Area of Quarr Abbey, &c. 



lapathifolium. On rich cultivated or waste ground, 



dunghills, &c. ; frequent in the Isle of Wight, and as far as my ob- 

 servation has gone, over the rest of the county. Possibly only a 

 permanent form or race of P. Persicaria, but possessing characters 

 sufficiently definite and constant to support its claim to specific dis- 

 tinction with considerable plausibility. The very obscure P. laxum 

 may occur in the county, but I am by no means desirous of swelling 

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