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culare which exactly resembles P. Raii in appearance, but its fruit 

 differs totally." (E. B. 1. c. and Phytol. ii. p. 617). 



Polygonum Convolvulus. In waste and cultivated ground, corn- 

 fields, gardens, and waste places, also in damp hedges and thickets ; 

 an abundant and troublesome weed, especially in light sandy soils. 

 Var. 0. Outer segments of the perianth distinctly and conspicuously 

 winged. Occasionally in light soils. I have gathered it running up 

 pea sticks in the garden of the Shanklin (late Williams's) Hotel. On 

 the Dover, Ryde ; Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders !!! where I have re- 

 peatedly found it. In a garden-hedge on Short Heath, near Selborne, 

 1848. In a sandy field and in garden ground at Holy Water, on 

 Wolmer Forest, and in fields at Passwell Common, very abundant and 

 luxuriant; apparently quite frequent on the loose sandy soil of the 

 forest, but varying much in degree of development of the wings. 

 Totally distinct from the following species, with which there is a risk 

 of its being confounded by the tyro unless attention be paid to the 

 characters laid down for their discrimination. P. Convolvulus is 

 called Lily in Hampshire, a most comprehensive term in the county, 

 including most herbaceous plants with climbing or trailing stems, 

 without regard to the size or shape of the flowers. 



dumetorum. In hedges, thickets, bushy places, and in 



newly cut copses ; very rare ? In the dry hedges of a sandy bye- 

 road within a mile of Petersfield, towards Steep, a few hundred yards 

 before coming to a public house called the Harrow, in great plenty, 

 twining about hazel and whitethorn at intervals for a very consider- 

 able distance, August 22nd, 1849. I had always calculated on find- 

 ing this truly elegant plant in the county, as it has been found in so 

 many localities in the south of England since its first detection in this 

 country at Wimbledon, by Mr. J. A. Hankey, about twelve years ago, 

 and because it was observed by Mr. Jenner a few years back, abun- 

 dantly betwixt Petersfield and Midhurst, beginning a little east of 

 Rogate, and therefore not within our limits. Mr. Borrer could not 

 find it there last year, nor could I discover a trace of it in September 

 on any part of the road between the two towns. It is therefore evi- 

 dently capricious in its seasons of appearing, if not disposed altoge- 

 ther to desert its former haunts. Yet this inconstancy will not 

 explain the omission of so beautiful and conspicuous a plant from the 

 British flora up to a recent period, because it must have been known 

 to our leading English botanists as a native of the continent, and 

 could hardly have been passed by as the variety of P. Convolvulus 

 with winged angles to the perianth just described, from which it dif- 



