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Dover. Salt-flats about Yarmouth, &c. Equally common on the 

 mainland. 



Triglocliinpalustre. In wet meadows, pastures, and other marshy 

 or boggy situations, but far less frequent than the last. Not very un- 

 common in the Isle of Wight, but from its slender habit, and growing 

 generally amongst long grass and other herbage, often overlooked. 

 In a meadow a little east of Langbridge, by Newchurch, where Utri- 

 c ul aria minor grows, in plenty. In the meadow below Lower Knigh- 

 ton Mill, also in plenty. In the Cyperus meadow at Ape's Down. 

 Moors between Bridge Court and Bow Bridge, near Godshill. Most 

 profusely in a very boggy meadow a little above Newbridge, towards 

 Calbourne Mill. In wet clay between Thorness Wood and the 

 mouth of the Newtown river. Piece of wet, heathy ground close to 

 Sheepwash farm, Freshwater, and by one of the marsh ditches at 

 Easton, Sandown Level, and elsewhere occasionally. Plentiful on 

 the banks of slipped clay along the shore between Whitecliff Bay and 

 Bembridge, Mr. Thos. Meehan, jun. Near Newport, Mr. G. Kirk- 

 patrick ! Equally frequent, I presume, in mainland Hants. I have 

 remarked it in a salt marsh near the Lymington River, but find no 

 personal notice of it elsewhere amongst my memoranda. Warnford, 

 Rev. E. M. Sladen. Andover, Mr. Win. Whale. Readily distin- 

 guished from T. maritima by the suppression of just half the fructifi- 

 cation ; the rudiments of three of the cells of the combined carpels 

 appearing like a hollow, tapering rib in the angles of the three re- 

 maining cells. The scent of both species is equally strong and 

 odious, exactly like that of bugs. I see no great reason why the cu- 

 rious Scheuchzeria palustris should not be found on our Hampshire 

 bogs and marshes, having already been detected as far south as 

 Shropshire. As remarked when speaking of Cypripedium, at page 

 917, this and many other plants, as Pyrola, Trientalis, &c, though 

 found only in or towards the northern part of the kingdom in Britain, 

 descend on the continent into latitudes considerably lower even than 

 our own, proving that they are not essentially very northern species, 

 although evincing a boreal tendency in their distribution with us. 

 The more recent researches of botanists have greatly extended the 

 southern limits of Linmea borealis, Convallaria verticillata, Listera 

 cordata, Habenaria albida, Saxifraga Hirculus, and Campanula lati- 

 folia, — species known originally in Scotland or the north of England 

 only, but some of which are now ascertained to inhabit the midland 

 and even the southern counties of England, in exact accordance with 



