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cliff occasionally, as Pelhara Woods, &c. Abundantly in Northwood 

 Park, where, in one place, the turf is quite covered with its leaves, but 

 no flowers are produced. Frequent on the east bank of the Medina, 

 below Newport, near Fairlee House, Mr. G. Kirkpatrick !!! Culver 

 Cliffs, Rev. G. E. Smith !!! (see A. oleraceum). I have found it occa- 

 sionally in other parts of the island, but never in flower, and for this 

 reason I have omitted noting down the localities, feeling uncertain 

 whether some other species might not have been mistaken for it by 

 me. We share, of course, in Hants the general poverty of Britain in 

 the species of Allium, which are far more numerous in the south and 

 south-east, than in the western parts of central Europe. On the 

 mainland A. vineale, or what I guess to be such, abounds on Magda- 

 len Hill, near Winchester, and it is probably only this, and not 

 A. Schcenoprasum, which has been indicated to me as Chives, growing 

 in Hayling Island, by the Rev. Charles Hardy. I do not, however, 

 mean to deny the possibility of that very local plant being a native of 

 our county, but I have, as yet, seen no specimens from Hayling. 



Allium oleraceum. In similar places with the last, but scarcely 

 well proved to inhabit this county. The Rev. G. E. Smith believes 

 he found this species on the debris of the green sandstone in San- 

 down Bay. I have two specimens of an Allium gathered in this bay 

 in 1839, by a servant, and sent to Miss E. Kirkpatrick, the leaves of 

 which are very narrow, with close cylindrical sheaths, and appear to 

 have been plane when fresh ; the head of bulbs is very compact and 

 spherical, but the flowers had quite fallen. The crest of the sand- 

 stone cliffs near their junction with the chalk of Whitecliff Bay, is 

 fringed for some distance with quantities of an Allium which I sup- 

 pose to be chiefly A. vineale, but invariably producing only heads of 

 bulbs without blossoms ; but both here and on the banks of debris in 

 the bay below, specimens occur with semi-cylindrical leaves grooved 

 above, but not rough as Smith asserts of A. oleraceum ; the want of 

 flowers puts it out of ray power to decide with certainty to what 

 species it belongs, the species of this genus being very difficult of 

 discrimination by their leaves alone. 



Allium ursinum. In moist shady woods, groves, thickets, on damp 

 hedge-banks and grassy borders of fields ; rarely with us in open mea- 

 dows and pastures ; far too abundant in many parts of the Isle of 

 Wight, and probably not rare in the county generally. Most common 

 in woods over the chalk or on the greensand. Plentiful in Centurion's 

 Copse, near Brading, and in enormous quantity over nearly the whole 

 of Greatwood Copse, near Shanklin, as well as extremely abundant in 



