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the road at Sandford and at Appuldureombe. Plentiful between the 

 second and third milestone out of Newport to Godshill, and at Chil- 

 lerton, Mr. G. Kirkpatrick !!! Near Swainston, Rev. W. Darwin 

 Fox. Near Freshwater, Rev. James Penfold. Occasionally in 

 other parts of the island. I have few localities to give for this plant 

 on mainland Hants, because my correspondents have not furnished 

 me with them, and the species flowers much earlier than I am in the 

 habit of being in that part of the county myself; * I am certain, 

 nevertheless, that it is quite frequent in Hants, perhaps as common 

 over the water as it is here. I have seen it in fields near Southamp- 

 ton, and at Pilley, near Boldre, and found what I have no doubt were 

 the leaves in a meadow at Nately, near Basingstoke, in May last, but 

 the leaves die down so quickly after the flowers that the plant escapes 

 detection by summer herborizers.f Meadows at Highclere and East 

 Woodhay, J. B. in Cat. of Pis. of Newbury. With varieties (what 

 varieties ?) between Bishop's Waltham and Botley, left side of the road, 

 within a hedge near a farm-house, Rev. E. M. Sladen (perhaps an es- 

 cape from gardens only). Plentiful by the river-side near Christ- 

 church, Pulteney. Var. @. flowers double or semi-double. N. Pseudo- 

 nar. & Bertol. Fl. Ital. iv. p. 18. Here and there occasionally with 

 the common single state, but very rarely, and seldom more than a spe- 

 cimen or two in the same station. A solitary clump in Centurion's 

 Copse, amongst thousands of the single sort, and a very double, but 

 certainly wild specimen on a bank near Yaverland, a few years since. 

 More frequent in meadows and pastures near habitations, escaped 

 from gardens, and then usually of larger size. Field near Bern- 

 bridge Farm, in some abundance. Field at Woodvale, W. Cowes, 

 and elsewhere, naturalized. In this wild double variety the perianth 

 segments are always of a full yellow, like the cup or crown, and in 

 this state I cannot distinguish it from the common great yellow daffo- 

 dil of the gardens, although that is supposed to be a different species, 

 the N. major of the ' Botanical Magazine,' and a native of Spain. 

 The leaves of the garden daffodil are greener or less glaucous in gene- 



* In the extraordinary mild season of 1846, the wild daffodil was in full flower 

 near Ryde soon after the middle of February, nearly a month before its accustomed 

 time in this part of England. 



f Clusius informs us that in his time N. Pseudo-narcissus " grew in such abun- 

 dance in the meadows close to London, that in that celebrated village (as he calls it) 

 of Ceapside (Cheapside) the countrywomen offered the flowers in profusion for sale in 

 March, wheu all the taverns might be seen decked out with those blossoms." Rar. 

 Plant. Hist. p. 164. 



