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clayey or even wet situations ; extremely common over a great part 

 of the county, but with our other British species wholly absent from 

 the Isle of Wight. In West Wood (or Weston Wood ?), by Netley 

 Abbey, at Mansbridge and elsewhere about Southampton. Common 

 in woods at Langrish, Bordean Hill, Privet, Tigwell and elsewhere 

 near Petersfielcl, also in woods about Bishop's Waltham, Alresford, 

 Botley, Fareham, Shidfield, Boarhunt, Alton (Akender Wood and 

 Chawton Park), Winton (at Twyford, Chilcombe, &c), Pen Wood, 

 Highclere, and Appleshaw. Woods about Bramdean, Withering. 

 Under the walls of Silchester, Mr. Fordon in B. G. Woods by 

 Bramdean, Doody. Generally dispersed, I believe, over the whole of 

 Hants, with the apparent exception of the south-western or New- 

 Forest district, in which I do not remember ever to have noticed it. 

 Gigantic specimens occur here and there in our woods, three feet 

 high, with stems as thick as swan-quills, and leaves and flowers in 

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Convallaria majalis. In woods, thickets and moist shady places ; 

 not found in the Isle of Wight, and far from common in mainland 

 Hants, although I have good reason to believe that very few of its 

 stations only are known to me. In a large hollow in Churcher's Is- 

 land, near W 7 ickham, and at Shidfield, Miss Chapman !'.! Near Shid- 

 field Common, in a copse east of the parsonage at the upper end 

 nearest the road to Droxford, Miss Hawkins. I suspect this station 

 and the last are the same. Abundant in Parnell or Parnholt Wood, 

 near Farley, Miss A. M. Yonge !!! Dr. A. D. White finds it in more 

 than one spot in this wood, where the flowers have stains of dull red 

 or crimson at the bottom, as noticed by Mr. R. W. Smith, of Winton. 

 W T herwell Wood, near Andover, Mr. Wm. Whale. Lord's Wood, 

 between Southton and Romsey, in plenty, Miss L. Minchin. Pen 

 wood (Highclere Park ?), Cat. of Pis. of Newbury. Stony places on 

 the common under Caesar's Camp, 1844, Mr. W. W. Reeves (in litt.). 

 I am told it grows in a wood near Holywell House, in the vicinity of 

 the first station, called in consequence the Lily Wood, but I am not 

 sure whether this and the two other localities of Wickham and Shid- 

 field are not all one and the same : there is some confusion between 

 them. At Shidfield, about a mile from Wickham, the lily of the 

 valley is abundantly scattered over the copse in a damp sandy loam, 

 but of very small growth, and hardly above one plant in fifty producing 

 flowers. In Parnholt Wood, where it grows chiefly under beeches in 

 dark friable soil, I found it still more shy of flowering, not one in a 

 hundred producing blossom, but Dr. White finds it in abundant 

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