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In the former place it seems to have been first noticed by Mr. W. D. 

 Snooke, and may be found annually, for the most part in plenty, and 

 in some years even profusely. These are the only Hampshire locali- 

 ties 1 am at present acquainted with for this rare and pretty little 

 Squill. Leaves seldom produced with the flowers or coetaneous, at 

 least not fully developed till the latter are past, and sometimes not 

 even then. 



IScilla verna. On rocks, cliffs, pastures and grassy slopes near 

 the sea, but extremely rare, if it was ever found at all in Hants. 

 " Near Newport, Isle of Wight," Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in 

 Hamp. Repos. Brading, Dr. Bostock in Withering's Bot. Arrang., 

 7th edit. The authenticity of the latter quotation was kindly con- 

 firmed by Dr. Bostock, in answer to an inquiry made on the sub- 

 ject by Dr. T. Bell Salter, in 1839. Dr. B., I believe, exhibited spe- 

 cimens before the Linuean Society, or at least to some of its members, 

 I forget which ; still it is possible that between two species so nearly 

 resembling one another a mistake may have been committed. Were 

 it not that the existence of Scilla vera aas an Isle-of- Wight plant rests 

 on such respectable authority, I should be inclined to exclude it from 

 the Hampshire Flora, having never succeeded on repeated trials in 

 finding it on either station, or heard of its rediscovery by others. 

 Although common enough on many parts of the western and north- 

 western coasts of Britain, from Cornwall to the Shetland Islands, 

 and on a few spots along the north-eastern shores as far south as 

 Northumberland, there are no recorded localities for it on any 

 intermediate point of the extensive coast line between the two 

 English counties just named, unless the unconfirmed stations in 

 this island, and one or more equally doubtful habitats in Devon- 

 shire, be excepted. The wide difference in the flowering seasons 

 of these Squills is the chief difficulty in the way of supposing a 

 mistake to have been made between plants otherwise much alike. It 

 may be well to remark, that I do not find S. autumnalis on either sta- 

 tion assigned to S. verna, which lessens in some degree the suspicion 

 of any such error. I should never be surprized to hear that Scilla bi- 

 folia had been rediscovered in England, but should expect it rather in 

 the eastern than the western parts. 



Allium vineale. In meadows, pastures, waste grassy places, and 

 borders of fields ; not, I think, uncommon, but often, I imagine, over- 

 looked, from its seldom or never flowering with us, which may induce 

 some doubt at times, even with respect to the species being the same 

 in all the subjoined stations. At Steephill and other parts of Under- 



