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tree in any one of the churchyards belonging to the thirty parishes 

 into which the Isle of Wight is divided. The antiquarian reader may 

 possibly be able to account for this fact. 



Juniperus communis. On dry hilly places, chalk downs, also in 

 woods and copses ; frequent in various parts of the county, but 

 scarcely wild in the Isle of Wight. I found, March 20th, 1845, a 

 solitary, very dwarf bush of the common juniper on the slope of the 

 down above Nunwell, which, like the yew it accompanies, may possi- 

 bly be native there, but until discovered elsewhere in greater quantity 

 I do not feel justified in considering it as indigenous to the island on 

 the strength of a single specimen. In Bordean Hanger and about 

 Bordean Hill, where I have found this shrub rising to ten or twelve 

 feet on the chalky slopes. Common on the downs about Petersfield, 

 on Oxenbourne Down, &c. About the Farley (Horse) monument, 

 in Parnell's or Parnholt Wood, and in most woods in that vicinity. 

 Abundant in the higher, more open parts of Froxfield Hangers, and 

 in woods at Hambledon. Plentiful at Highclere, in the park, on 

 Beacon Hill and chalk downs about it. Popham Beacon, near An- 

 dover Road station, abundantly ; Dr. T. Bell Salter ! On Abbotston 

 Down; Mr. J. Forder !!! I find it profusely on that beautiful ele- 

 vated tract, along with large bushes of Rhamnus catharticus, Ligus- 

 trum vulgare, &c. Warnford; Rev. E. M. Sladen. On the down 

 at Up Hurstbourne ; Mr. Wm. Whale. On Danesbury Hill, near 

 Testcombe Bridge, and Forest of Bere ; Id. Unquestionably in in- 

 numerable other places in the county. The absence of this plant 

 and the yew from the Isle of Wight, abounding, as it does, with tracts 

 perfectly similar to those of the mainland, so productive of both these 

 trees, is a singular feature in its flora. 



%Pinus sylvestris. Naturalized extensively in the south-west of 

 the county, and probably in other parts, from plantations, chiefly on 

 sandy or boggy heaths and moors. In plantations of immense extent 

 about Ringwood, and betwixt Poole and Christchurch, as at Bourne- 

 mouth, over tens of thousands of acres of moor, heath and bog, so as 

 perfectly to present the aspect of the pine forests of Scotland. The 

 species now maintains itself by self-sown seeds, which come up abun- 

 dantly everywhere, even in the wettest morasses, and are gradually 

 spreading the trees over the county, so that were the plantations to 

 be left to themselves, and the original firs allowed to die out, the ex- 

 istence of the species would be perpetuated by purely natural means. 

 It seems therefore absurd any longer to exclude the Scoth fir from 

 the catalogue of Hampshire plants, as, although unquestionably intra- 



