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at Newtown. Profuse in the salt-marshes along the Yar, betwixt 

 Yarmouth and Freshwater Gate. Thorness Bay, in plenty. Norton 

 and Brading Harbour, in abundance, Mr. W. D. Snooke, (in Fl. 

 Vect. !!!) Abundant in salt-marsh and brackish pastures at Ems- 

 worth, and thence westward all along the coast. Plentiful in 

 Hayling Island. About Christchurch Harbour, plentifully. The 

 Salterns, Hill Head, Carm (near Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt ; and in 

 innumerable other places. The white bases of the scapes are re- 

 markably clammy, and possess a peculiar fragrance, resembling that 

 of cedar-wood, not 1 believe noticed by any author. 



Obs. J. acutus grows in tolerable plenty at Emsworth, close to the 

 Hampshire border, but on the Sussex side of Emsworth Creek, which 

 divides the two counties, where it was discovered by Mr. Boner 

 some years ago. Tt is there found in a piece of muddy ground, over- 

 flowed at high-water, on the eastern side of the creek or harbour, just 

 below the quay or embankment and the mill, looking, at a distance, 

 from its dark green colour and mode of growth, something like low 

 broom-bushes. The station can only be approached at low-water, 

 and then across ooze and slime. Some precaution is necessary in 

 collecting specimens of this plant, for the barren scapes and leaves 

 are as stiff and sharp as porcupines' quills, and as capable of inflict- 

 ing severe punctures. Tt grows mixed with J. maritimus, from which 

 it may be distinguished from far by its close heads of large, shining, 

 brown capsules, that are very long in ripening, not probably till the 

 second year, by its deeper green, and the somewhat radiated or 

 spreading growth of the scapes and leaves. I searched carefully on 

 the Hants side of the creek, and all along the shore westward beyond 

 Havant, in hopes of securing this rare species to our Flora, which I 

 cannot very honestly or safely contend for its belonging to at present ; 

 for, although Emsworth is in Hampshire, and Juncus acutus grows 

 at Emsworth, the concluding proposition of the syllogism, that there- 

 fore Juncus acutus is a Hampshire plant, would be demurred to as 

 illogical, in point of fact, by its worthy discoverer, accompanied, pro- 

 bably, by an awkward demand on me for restitution of what I had un- 

 ceremoniously filched from his Flora for the adornment of my own. 

 Dr. Salter finds a single tuft of this species on the shores of Poole 

 Harbour, (the J. acutus of Pulteney's Cat. of the Pis. of Dorset, is 

 most likely only J. maritimus); it may, therefore, reasonably be 

 expected on some intermediate point of the coast-line between these 

 eastern and western stations. 



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