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sandy sea-shores ; frequent. St. Helen's Spit. Plentiful at the 

 mouth of the Wootton River. On the beach a little way out of Yar- 

 mouth eastward, and abundant in the first meadow, or that nearest to 

 the sea, atEaston Marsh, Freshwater Gate, where it forms a consider- 

 able constituent of the coarse herbage of that half-drained bog — 



Limosoque palus obducat pascua junco. 



Very common I think in most places along the coast. Profusely on 

 the south side of Portsea Island, near a salt pond by the beach, about 

 half a mile east of Southsea Castle, &c. I forbear giving more locali- 

 ties from memory, as some may belong to J. compressus. The Sal- 

 terns (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. J. tenuis, Willd., if the Scottish 

 plant be the same, ought to be found in the south of England also, 

 being a native of the plains of central Europe, but there is reason to 

 doubt if the true J. tenuis was ever seen in N. Britain. 



Juncus bufonius. By the margin of pools ; in half-dried ditches 

 and places where water has stood in winter, in moist sandy or gravelly 

 spots by road-sides, on heaths, &c. ; extremely common in every part 

 of the county. J. Tenageia, a species very closely resembling the 

 present, with pale brown, nearly globose capsules, should be looked 

 for in the same localities, as being extremely likely, I conceive, to in- 

 habit the south of England, as it does all the 'adjacent countries of 

 Europe, both inland and near the coast. 



Luzula sylvatica. In dry shady woods, groves, thickets and hilly 

 heathy places amongst bushes, but not general. In woods about 

 Shanklin and Cook's Castle, as in Cowpit Cliff and Hungerberry 

 copses, near Apse farm, &c. Abundantly in one or two spots at Apse 

 Castle. Little Stan den Wood, near Newport; plentifully. In the 

 Parsonage Lynch at Newchurch, abundantly, as well as in another 

 wood, near that village. Not rare, and probably frequent in main- 

 land Hants. In Amfield Wood, near Romsey ; Cranbury Park woods, 

 near Winton, in various places, and in a wood betwixt Otterbourne 

 and the old church. In several parts of Akender Wood, near Alton, 

 but somewhat sporadical, as it often is with us, although usually abun- 

 dant in its several stations. Winchester Wood, by Rotherfield Park, 

 and elsewhere in the county. 



Luzula Forsteri. In woods, thickets, groves, and on shady hedge- 

 banks ; very general over the Isle of Wight, and I believe the rest of 

 the county, where, as in some of the adjacent ones, as Surrey (and 

 Sussex ?), it is even more abundant than L. pilosa, frequent as is that 



