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the Hampshire Flora with dubious, false, or book species, although 

 anxious not to overlook or omit mentioning as varieties when they 

 occur both, this and other such quasi species, leaving to future com- 

 pilers of general or local floras who may be pleased to avail themselves 

 of my labours, to exalt them into specific notoriety if they shall see 

 fit to do so. 



Polygonum Persicaria. In low rich moist ground, on ditch-banks, 

 dunghills and waste or cultivated land, very common. 



■ mite. A solitary specimen of this very apocryphal spe- 

 cies was picked by the Rev. G. E. Smith, September, 1838, in a lane 

 between Apley and St. John's, near Ryde !! I have not succeeded 

 in finding it there since, but have reason to believe that it grows in- 

 termixed with P. Persicaria and P. minus in the marshes of Sandown 

 Level. 



Hydropiper. In moist places by road-sides, wet mea- 

 dows and on ditch and river banks, &c. ; abundantly almost every- 

 where. The grassy sides of our damp shady lanes and bye-roads are 

 usually fringed with this species from August to October. 



■ minus. In similar places with the last, also in moist 



gravelly depressed spots on heaths, and bare places on moory, peaty 

 ground. Very rare in the Isle of Wight. In great profusion in the 

 little drains intersecting the meadows on Sandown Level, betwixt the 

 high road from Ryde and Brading to Shanklin, &c, and Lake and 

 Blackpan Commons, extending up the valley of the East Yar, in front 

 of the latter, growing intermixed with P. Hydropiper, and I suspect 

 also with P. mite. First found there by Miss S. Lovell, in whose her- 

 barium I saw it marked P. Hydropiper, and who kindly conducted 

 me to the station, September 23rd, 1847. The Sandown plant is the 

 upright variety of E. B. and of the 'Flora Londinensis.' Apparently 

 frequent on the moorlands of the Hampshire forest districts, where it 

 occurs abundantly, and usually with perfectly depressed or prostrate 

 stems, of a deep red or purple colour, on bare damp spots of black 

 vegetable soil. In this state I find it in several places on Wolmer 

 Forest, as betwixt Blackmore farm and the great pond, and elsewhere 

 in the vicinity of the latter. On Petersfield Heath. Close to Ring- 

 wood, and very abundant at Blashford, about a mile north of that 

 town, at both ends of the village, in wet, depressed, pasture ground by 

 the road-side, September 29th, 1849. Abundant on Short Heath, 

 near Selborne ; Dr. T. Bell Salter!!! The variety with prostrate 

 stems is the only form I have yet fallen in with on the mainland of 

 the county. 



