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recollection of the latter to be identical, but the different species of 

 Pinus are very difficult to recognize apart from each other, and there 

 are several long-leaved pines in Europe and America inhabiting the 

 low grounds closely allied to one another. I have heard or read that 

 the maritime pine of the Landes is not indigenous there, but was 

 planted in the first instance for the purpose of binding the loose sand 

 of that singular region, where the peasantry walk about upon stilts, 

 and has since become naturalized. In this part of the south coast we 

 are on the meridian of the Landes, and assuming our pinaster and the 

 P. maritima of Bordeaux to be identical, we may well conceive it pos- 

 sible for the tree to be so far able to accommodate itself to a diffe- 

 rence of latitude amounting to about six degrees, as to establish itself 

 spontaneously here as there, when introduced into a soil equally 

 adapted to its nature. 



Paris quadrifolia. In shady woods and copses ; not found in the 

 Isle of Wight, but apparently of frequent occurrence in mainland 

 Hants, at least on the chalk and in the interior of the county ; seem- 

 ingly rare, if found at all, near the sea, which is perhaps the cause of 

 its absence from the island, the climate of which is too maritime for 

 this rather continental or Germanic plant. Wood at Bordean Hill ; 

 the Misses Sibley!!! Langrish ; Miss G. E. Kilderbee !!! Parnell 

 or Parnholt Wood, near Farley, a few miles from Winton ; Miss A. 

 Yonge and Dr. A. D. White !!! Abundantly in woods on the chalk, 

 as about West Meon, Winchester, &c. ; Mr. Wm. Pamplin. Wher- 

 well Wood, near Andover ; Mr. Win. Whale ! Wonston ; Miss L. 

 Legge ! Henwood, W. Meon, and wood near Rotherfield ; Miss L. 

 Sibley. In the Church-litten Coppice, Selborne ; Rev. G. White. 

 In the sloping wood nearly facing the church, at Appleshaw, in which 

 Lonicera Caprifolium grows ; W. A. B. Very many more stations 

 doubtless exist for the Paris besides these just enumerated. With 

 us this plant rather affects the uplands than the lower flat country, 

 and where it sometimes has the wild Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) 

 for its associate in the more elevated of its localities. 



Tamus communis. In woods, groves, thickets, hedges and borders 

 of fields, extremely common throughout the county. Abundant in 

 the Isle of Wight, and in nearly all parts of mainland Hants, but I 

 think of diminished frequency in the south-western or New-Forest 

 district, as about Lymington, Lyndhurst, Ringwood, Christchurch, 

 &c, owing, perhaps, to the nature of the soil, which is chiefly the 

 diluvial of the Poole basin, on which some other species, as Acer 



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