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prehensible. The Rev. Hugh Davies, in his ' Welsh Botanology,' 

 which uncouth word stands for the Flora of Anglesey, not of the prin- 

 cipality at large, mentions a form of the plant as growing on the sandy 

 south-west coast of that island, which, from his description, I sup- 

 posed might be E. pitynsa, a species nearly allied to the present, hut 

 inhabiting the south of Europe, one of the characters of which is to 

 have, like Davies's plant, the lower stem-leaves reflexed. Mr. Borrer, 

 to whom I mentioned my suspicion, in which I was the more con- 

 firmed by Davies's own doubts of its being only E. Paralias, kindly 

 examined the plant in its locality, and satisfied me by a specimen 

 from thence of its being merely a form of the latter. 



Euphorbia portlandica. On rocks and cliffs by the sea, as also on 

 the sandy or pebbly beach itself; occasionally, too, in woods and 

 thickets along the shore ; very local. Plentiful on the steep chalk 

 banks and cliffs at the upper, or N.E. end of Sandown Bay, the only 

 Isle-of- Wight station known to me, and where it seems to have been 

 first observed by Mr. W. D. Snooke, in his little work, the ' Flora 

 Vectiana,' referred to in a former part of these Notes. Very abun- 

 dant and luxuriant on the wide, flat beach of Stokes Bay, near Gos- 

 port, formed by the recession of the sea, and interesting from the num- 

 ber of rather rare plants it produces, amongst which may be mentioned 

 this Euphorbia, Cochlearia danica, Silene nutans, Linaria repens and 

 Teesdalia nudicaulis. The flowering time of this very pretty, almost 

 shrubby spurge, is very erroneously given in our books, not except- 

 ing Babington's Manual, in which so much has been done in the way 

 of correcting these and other mistakes of his predecessors. The Port- 

 land Spurge begins to flower early in May, and continues in bloom 

 till August or September. At Torquay I have remarked it growing 

 in the borders of thickets by the side of the Tor Abbey walks, but in 

 this county it shows no tendency to become a wood plant. 



Peplus. Common in waste and cultivated ground ; par- 

 ticularly in weedy, ill-kept gardens in autumn all over the county. I 

 have remarked a monstrous form, in which some of the ovaries were 

 converted into a long, horn-shaped excrescence, surmounted by the 

 styles. 



exigua. In waste and cultivated ground, fallows, and 



especially in corn-fields ; most abundantly, both on chalk and sand, 

 over the whole county and island. 



t Lathyris. Here and there in waste and garden ground, 



amongst potatoes, by road-sides, and along hedges near houses, very 

 rarely in newly cut copses ; doubtfully indigenous in any part of the 



