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geographical reasons are not greatly opposed to its occurrence in the 

 south of England. Parkinson gives three species as native to Eng- 

 land, and both his description and very rough figure of his Typha 

 minima, Least Reede-mace (Theatra. Bot. p. 1204, furthest fig. on the 

 right), leave little doubt of the true plant being the one intended. 

 Gerarde also speaks of having found a smaller kind of Cat's-tailin the 

 Isle of Shephy, but it may have been only T. angustifolia, as no figure 

 or description accompanies the notice. T. minor would seem to 

 flower at least two months earlier than the other species, namely, in 

 April and May. 



Sparganium ramosum. In ditches, pools, slow rivers and streams; 

 very common throughout Hants. Abundant in Sandown Level, Gur- 

 net Bay, Freshwater Gate, &c. Of immense size in a pond near 

 Freshwater farm, four feet high, with very broad leaves. Lowermost 

 stalked head of flowers usually in the axil of the undermost leaf. 



Sparganium simplex. In ditches, &c, with the last, but much 

 less frequent. In several ditches on Sandown marshes, and frequent 

 in ditches between Brading and St. Helen's. Abundant in Lashmere 

 Pond, at the foot of Bleak Down ; possibly now destroyed or made 

 much rarer by the late drainage. Not uncommon in mainland Hants, 

 as about Christchurch, Romsey, Winchester, &c. Near Place House ; 

 Side of Titchfield River, Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Warnford, Rev. E. M. 

 Sladen. Always much, and often many times smaller than the last, 

 and of a paler green. As Dr. Salter has remarked to me, the lower- 

 most stalked head of flowers has its peduncle arising from the main 

 stem, springing considerably above and not from the axil of the un- 

 dermost leaf, but this is not invariably the case. 



Sparganium natans. In slow streams, rivers, ponds and pits ; 

 plentiful, I believe, in several parts of the Isle of Wight, but very 

 rarely flowering, and therefore not identified with this species in that 

 condition with absolute certainty. Abundant in the Medina at Shide 

 and Blackwater, and in the East Yar above Sandown Level, towards 

 Alverston, in various places ; very profusely in the stream above Al- 

 verston Mill, but never, I think, flowering there or in any of the run- 

 ning waters of the island, however slow the current may be. I found 

 it in considerable plenty, and flowering freely, August 20, 1840, in 

 some little pools (old clay-pits), called, as well as I could catch the 

 name, Appey Pools, on a small common a little to the east of Cran- 

 more farm, near Ningwood, and which are nearly filled with Typha 

 angustifolia. I have not seen the inflorescence in any other spot in 

 the island or on the mainland of Hants, where I believe to have 



