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the law of indefinite or irregular distribution of plants towards their 

 equatorial boundaries adverted to at p. 365 of this volume. 



The name for the order to which the present genus belongs, Jun- 

 caginacese, is injudiciously chosen, as liable to be confounded with 

 Juncaceae. I would propose to substitute Triglochinaceae, as being 

 at once unequivocal and identical, seeing that Juncago was but an 

 old word for Triglochin, and used for it generically by Tournefort 

 and others until supplanted by the latter. 



Typha lati folia. In ponds, ditches, pits, sides of rivers, and other 

 marshy places ; not unfrequent over the county and Isle of Wight. 

 Scarce about Ryde ; in a little pond near Beaper farm, and sparingly 

 in the brook between St. John's and Little Smallbrook farm. By the 

 Medina at Shide Bridge, Newport, abundantly. Marsh below Caris- 

 brook Castle. Marsh ditches at Gurnet Bay, with the following spe- 

 cies. Very large and plentiful in a pond by Kingston Copse. In the 

 stream (East Yar) both above and below Horringford Bridge. Near 

 the western arm of the Newtown River, with the next. By the great 

 pond near the church in the grounds of Gatcombe House, and in the 

 upper pond at Knighton House, abundantly. Little pool between 

 Stapler's Heath and the farm. In clay pits of Squires's brick-field, at 

 Ningwood. About the Medina and Yar, in plenty, Mr. W. D. Snooke 

 in Fl. Vect. !!! In a little pool under the cliff at Foreland, Dr. T. 

 Bell Salter. Common, I believe, in most parts of mainland Hants. 

 Observed in one or two places in Hayling Island, Portsea Island, 

 along with the next. Profusely in the Itchen River at King's Wor- 

 thy, near Winton. Langston, near Havant, and generally dispersed. 

 Cams, near the shore ; Fontley Iron-mills (near Fareham), Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt. The green leaves are collected, and after drying in the sun 

 are used in this county instead of bulrushes, for mats, chair-bottoms 

 and basket-work, under the name of flags. 



Typha angustifolia. In similar places with the last, and rather 

 the more common of the two with us, in the Isle of Wight at least, 

 especially in old clay pits. In the marsh-meadow ditches, Gurnet 

 Bay, plentiful, but rarely, I believe, flowering there. Almost 

 filling a pool surrounded by woods near Cockleton farm, W. Cowes, 

 nearlv eight feet high and flowering abundantly. Little pool at Pal- 

 lance Gate, on the north side of Parkhurst Forest, and flowering freely. 

 Pond between Wootton River and King's Quay, along with T. lati- 

 folia. In a wet wood near Alverston, called Bordwood or Borthwick 

 Lynch. Pool between Great Thorness and Elmsworth farms, with 



