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to have beard Mr. Borrer say it frequently does in Sussex. My rea- 

 sons for thinking the black poplar not indigenous with us are the 

 same as those given under P. alba and canescens, namely, its absence 

 in the heart of remote woodlands or on our old forest ground, and 

 stream-sides that flow through them, as well as from its rare and spo- 

 radic occurrence in all those localities least open to suspicion of its 

 having been purposely introduced thereto. It is, however, to all ap- 

 pearance so far naturalized in Hampshire, that a place could not con- 

 sistently be refused it in the county flora, without excluding some 

 other plants whose pretensions are no better than its own. 



Myrica Gale. In wet thickets, bogs and on moory ground. In 

 several parts of the Isle of Wight, abundantly. In boggy, peaty 

 meadows along the Medina (above Newport) and East Yar, in many 

 places abundant, as about Rookley Wilderness, &c. Plentiful in 

 Apse Heath withy bed, also at the upper end of Sandown Level, and 

 on the boggy skirts of Lake and Blackpan commons. At the foot of 

 Hill Heath or Hill-side, and in Bordwood Lynch, both near New- 

 church. Willow thickets by Budbridge farm, and profusely on a tract 

 of peat bog not half a mile north of Godshill, a little beyond Munsley 

 Hill. Sometimes in this island rising to a height of six feet. A pro- 

 fusely abundant plant in mainland Hants, particularly in the forest 

 districts, where it covers acres of moorland bog. In various parts of 

 the New Forest, as remarked by Mr. J. S. Mill (Phytol. i. 92). 

 Abundant in a bog below Boldre church ; near the Roman camp 

 called Buckbarrow Rings, and elsewhere in the parish. Bog on the 

 right hand below the road about three miles from Lymington towards 

 Brockenhurst. Abundant along the line of railway between Brocken- 

 hurst and Ringwood. In the moory ground about Sowley Pond and 

 on its boggy margins, in the utmost profusion. At Bournemouth and 

 near the Christchurch Station. Abundant on the boggy parts of 

 Titchfield Common and in the marshes near Grange farm, by Alver- 

 stoke. Parley Heath ; Mr. Curtis in litt. and Brit. Entom. xvii. t. 

 763 (ex loca). I think I have seen it in plenty on Wolmer Forest, 

 near Bishopstoke and elsewhere, but find no notes to that effect, nor 

 have I any station as yet to record for it in North Hants, although I 

 believe it to be very generally distributed over the county. This 

 shrub is called, in the Isle of Wight, Golden Withy, Sweet Withy, 

 Golden Osier, and is, if I remember rightly, used by our forest popu- 

 lation as fuel, being from its resinous nature highly inflammable. The 

 delightful fragrance of the leaves partakes of the combined aroma of 

 cloves and ginger. 



