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in other parts of the parish, and near Yarmouth, but much more spa- 

 ringly. In Lashmere Pool, at the foot of Bleak Down, if not now de- 

 stroyed by draining. Old clay pits in Hampstead brick-field, near 

 Yarmouth, also in a pool between Yarmouth and Ningwood Common, 

 in a field between the road and Leigh Wood, and in some old clay 

 pits near Cranmore farm, in the same vicinity. Very rare in East 

 Medina. In one or two of the marsh ditches in Sandown Level, to- 

 wards Alverston, in tolerable plenty, with Polygonum minus, Sept. 

 1849. A plant or two at most in a little pool in a rough pasture field 

 just beyond Coppid Hall, going towards Firestone Copse. Pond on 

 Stapler's Heath (near Newport), Mr. C. D. Snooke. Very frequent 

 on the mainland of the county, at least in South Hants. In the bog 

 at the town end of Titchfield Common, sparingly. Margin of Sowley 

 Pond, near Lymington. Ringwood. Extremely common in West 

 Hants, as about Christchurch and in swampy pools a little south of the 

 Christchurch-Road Station. Margin of Fisher's Pond, between 

 Bishop's Stoke and Twyford. " In the river (Avon) about Sopley, 

 Hants," Pulteney, Cat. of Pis. of Dorset. !!! Droxford Forest, Rev. 

 E. M. Sladen. The whole plant when bruised emits an odour like 

 that of Eryngium foetidum or Muscari racemosum, but less powerful, 

 and is probably in an inferior degree endowed with the antispasmodic 

 properties of the former, which has obtained for it in the West Indies 

 the name of Fit-weed. 



Actinocarpus Damasoninm. In shallow pools, pits and ditches, 

 on a gravelly or clayey soil; very rare. Not found in the Isle of 

 Wight. " It used, some years ago, to grow in a pool about two miles 

 from Christchurch, on the Lyndhurst road," Mr. James Hussey (in 

 litt.). The neighbourhood of Christchurch, watered by two fine 

 streams, the Avon and the Stour, is rich in aquatic plants, the coun- 

 try being low and intersected by ditches, enclosing water-meadows 

 that extend up to Ringwood and Fordingbridge. The Actinocarpus 

 will probably be found in the eastern part of the county, as it occurs 

 in several parts of Surrey, in Berks, and in Sussex ; it is, in fact, an 

 eastern and inland rather than a western and coast plant, and its oc- 

 currence near Christchurch is somewhat unexpected, and encourages 

 the hope that the species may be found elsewhere in Hants. Little 

 pools and plashes on gravelly commons are its most usual Surrey lo- 

 calities. Plant destitute of smell. 



Sagittaria sagiltifolia. In rivers, streams and ditches ; not rare, 

 but merely local, in Hants, and only known to me as inhabiting the 

 west of the comity, nor is it a native of the Isle of Wight. Frequent 



