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pleshaw; Mr. Borrer in Bot. Guide. I find it abundant in the large 

 sloping wood nearly facing the church, in which Lonicera Caprifo- 

 lium has been found, and which produces besides Aquilegia vulgaris 

 and Vicia sylvatica. The Colchicum probably grows not uncom- 

 monly in the vicinity of the same village, as it has been found abun- 

 dantly in a meadow there by the Rev. J. W. Reeves. Near Liphook, 

 Mr. II. Barrett in Baxter's Brit. Flow. Pis. In a meadow near Burgh - 

 clere parsonage, very plentiful, Cat. of Plants of Newbury. These are 

 the only stations I know of at present in Hants for this equally curious 

 and valuable but dangerously active plant. It doubtless grows in other 

 parts of the county, being found in most of the adjacent ones on the 

 west and north. 



Narthecium ossifragum. In spongy, turfy or peaty bogs, wet 

 moory heaths and commons ; not frequent in the Isle of Wight. In 

 Sandown Marshes on the skirts of Lake Common. Most profusely in 

 Alverston Lynch, near Newchurch. Abundant on the Wilderness and 

 moors adjoining. On the boggy slope of Bleak Down towards Roude. 

 Moors by Munsley, near Godshill, and Munsley peat-bed. Bog at 

 Blackpan, Dr. T. Bell Salter. Wood near Tinker's Lane (by W. 

 Cowes), Miss G. E. Kilderbee ! Freshwater Beach, Isle of Wight, 

 Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamps. Repos. (where could 

 this plant have grown then where all is now sand and shingle ?) Far 

 more frequent and abundant in mainland Hants. Boggy parts of 

 Tichfield Common in plenty. Exceedingly abundant on heaths and 

 bogs about Ringwood, and on boggy moors betwixt Christchurch and 

 Poole, at Bournemouth, &c, in profusion. In the bog near Lynd- 

 hurst, in which Spiranthes aestivalis grows, and indeed common 

 throughout the New Forest and Christchurch hundreds, on the vast 

 moorland tracts of that boggy and swampy district. Bog at East 

 Woodhay. Beautifully in wet ground below, that is south of Shid- 

 field Church, Miss Hawkins (in litt.). In bogs, frequent, as about 

 Botley, &c, Mr. W. Pamplin (in litt.). A frequent plant, I believe I 

 may say, in every part of the county where moors and bogs prevail. 

 The brick-red of the ripe capsules gradually bleaches by keeping in 

 this and N. Americanum, which last seems scarcely distinct from our 

 European Bog Asphodel. 



Juncus maritimus. About salt-marsh ditches, on sandy or muddy 

 sea-shores, mouths of tide-rivers and salt-inlets, also on moory pas- 

 ture grounds along the coast ; very common. On ditch-banks along 

 the shore between Springfield and Nettlestone Point. Plentifully by 

 creeks of the Medina above West Cowes, and in salt mai'shes 



