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over the county and Isle of Wight. Amongst the ruins of Quarr 

 Abbey. Walls of Carisbrook Castle, plentifully. Common in most 

 of the churchyards of the island, as those of Brading, Brixton, Caris- 

 brook, Northwood, Newchurch, Freshwater, &c. Plentiful at the 

 base of the chalk cliffs in Scratchell's Bay, and abundant on the 

 down along the edge of the cliffs from thence towards Freshwater 

 Gate at intervals. Profusely on Rosehall Green, Main Bench. 

 Hedge-banks by the road-side between Carisbrook and Buccombe, on 

 the way to Shorwell, in several places. Hedge-banks by Blackbridge, 

 Freshwater, and near the farm (Old Warren House) at Alum Bay. 

 Not less general in mainland Hants. Most profuse and luxuriant on 

 the walls of Porchester Castle, Beaulieu Abbey, Wintou and South- 

 ampton town walls, and many another venerable relic of feudal or ec- 

 clesiastical magnificence, 



" Where the mouldering walls are seen 

 Hung with pellitory green." — Clare. 



I am not at present prepared to say which of the two species of 

 Parietaria admitted as British into the Manual, is the commoner in 

 Hants, or whether we possess both, as I am inclined to believe we 

 do. This genus connects Urticaceae with Euphorbiacese through 

 Acalypha, belonging to the latter order, some species of which, as A. 

 virginica, have considerable resemblance to a Parietaria, in aspect as 

 well as structure. 



Urtica pilulifera. Under walls, amongst rubbish, and in waste 

 places about towns ; very rare, and not seen by myself in Hants. 

 Portsmouth ; the Rev. G. E. Smith in New Bot. Guide. It was ra- 

 ther at Gosport that my worthy friend met with this species, now a 

 good many years since ; the exact locality he cannot recal, but be- 

 lieves it to have been somewhere on the way from Gosport to Gomer 

 Pond, perhaps at Alverstoke or Privet, but if so, it still eludes my en- 

 deavours to rediscover it at all three places. Hayling Island, accord- 

 ing to the catalogue of plants in the Hayling Guide, but the wording 

 leaves it uncertain whether the intended station be not at Emsworth, 

 part of which town is in Sussex. The list of Hayling plants in the 

 work just mentioned is meagre enough, but contains no unlikely spe- 

 cies calculated to throw suspicion on the author's botanical knowledge, 

 as too often happens in local catalogues, and as the Roman nettle 

 unquestionably occurred at Gosport, it may equally inhabit the adja- 

 cent parts of the county. This species is commonly looked upon by 



