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and abundant in the Avon and Stour ; in the former I observed it all 

 along its course at Fordingbridge, Harbridge, Ringwood, near Avon 

 Cottage, and elsewhere, and in the Stour at St. Leonard's Bridge, II- 

 ford, and very commonly at Christchurch, as well as in ditches near 

 that town, between it and Sopley, &c. At Redbridge and elsewhere be- 

 tween that place and Romsey, in the river and canal. A form with very 

 narrow, quite linear-lobed leaves is frequent here. The Arrow-head 

 no doubt grows in other parts of the county, but is certainly not ge- 

 nerally dispersed over it, as all my correspondents are silent respect- 

 ing its stations, and I suspect it shuns the chalk wherever that 

 formation predominates. This very variable but beautiful aquatic 

 has been split up into several false or book species; the common 

 American state of the plant, however, has far larger and broader leaves 

 than in any European variety I have met with in Britain or on the 

 continent, and may possibly prove distinct from ours hereafter. 



Buiomits umbellatus. In ditches, ponds and other still waters; 

 very rare in Hants. Discovered, July 11, 1842, in extremely small 

 quantity, by the Rev. C. Pritchard, in one of the marsh ditches at 

 Easton, Freshwater Gate, where it still grows in this, the only known 

 station for it in the Isle of Wight !!! It is said to grow at Tvvyford, 

 near Winchester, but thought to have been introduced there, as I 

 have a great suspicion it has been at Freshwater, from the very limited 

 quantity and its confinement to a single spot. Pulteney (Cat. of the 

 rarer Pis. of Dorset.) says it occurs in the Stour, part of which river 

 is in Hants, and I feel pretty certain of having gathered a leaf of this 

 plant in a ditch a little way out of Christchurch, on the Ringwood 

 road, last autumn. It is stated to grow in streams near Newbury in 

 the anonymous catalogue of the plants of that neighbourhood occasi- 

 onally referred to in these Notes,* which must therefore be very near 

 our limits, and since it is mentioned as inhabiting every county con- 

 tiguous to this, its absence from the mainland Hampshire flora is in 

 the highest degree improbable. Since the foregoing remarks were 

 penned, I have confirmed the existence of this beautiful plant at 

 Christchurch, by finding it sparingly under the railing contiguous to 

 the second or easternmost bridge over a branch of the Avon, in June 

 last, and picking a specimen just out of the town, towards Sopley, in 

 flower, June 29. 



Triglochin maritimum. Very abundant in salt-marsh meadows, 

 pasture?, and on mud-flats along the coast. Meadows behind Ryde 



* See p. 716 for the name of the compiler, and observations by the authoress. 



