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and Old Ford, to the eastward of Ryde. In a pool on a moory pas- 

 ture near Mottiston Mill, in plenty. Ditch at Hill Head (near Fare- 

 ham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Zostera marina. In shallows, creeks and inlets of the sea, the 

 mouths of tide rivers, and salt pools ; common. Profusely in the shal- 

 low water of the shore at Ryde, about the pier, &c, where it is thrown 

 up all along the coast in great quantities after heavy gales. At the 

 mouths of the Yar and Medina, and plentiful in the pools of salt or 

 brackish water on the marshes between Yarmouth and Freshwater. 

 Profusely in the Southampton River, just below the town, retarding 

 the progress of wherries and other small craft through the water, and 

 clogging the oars in rowing. Plentiful in most other places along the 

 coast of Hants. 



Zostera nana. In similar places witji the last, and perhaps not un- 

 common. At Wootton Bridge, in small quantity, just by the bridge 

 itself, 1848, and found abundantly the same year by Dr. T. Bell Sal- 

 ter on the black mud of Blading Harbour, a little above the mill !! 

 I have not yet seen flowering specimens, but those found by Dr. Sal- 

 ter and myself perfectly agree in size and character of the leaves with 

 the beautiful figure in E. B. Suppl. t. 2931, and excellent accompa- 

 nying description, as well as with the scarcely less beautiful icon 

 in Fl. Danica, xii. t. 2041 (Z. Notki). Found in Portsea Is- 

 land, at Gatham Haven, Doody in Ray's Syn. 3rd edit. p. 53. I 

 think from the description here given, there can be little doubt of 

 Doody's plant (No. 4, Potamogeiton marinum, &c.) being our present 

 species. No. 5 (same page), or Doody's Algaangustifoliavitrariorum, 

 found by him with the other in the same station, I suppose may be 

 the Zostera angustifolia of Babington's 'Manual' (is that identical 

 with the Z. marina, 0. angustifolia, of Fl. Dan. ix. t. 1501 ?), of which 

 I know nothing, and from the very short specific character should fear 

 was hardly distinct from the commoner broad-leaved Z. marina. Mr. 

 Babington attributes broad leaves to his adopted species, Z. angusti- 

 folia, perhaps a misprint for narrow, and if it be the same with the 

 variety depicted in Fl. Dan. t. 1501, they are quite as linear as in Z. 

 nana, and little, if at all, longer than they are drawn and described in 

 that plant in the supplement to E. B. How far Z. nana and Z. an- 

 gustifolia are entitled to rank as good species I will not undertake to 

 say with my present very imperfect acquaintance with the one, and 

 utter ignorance of the other excepting through figures. 



Cyperus longus. In damp or wet meadows and along the marshy 

 sides of rivulets ; very rare, and as yet not known to inhabit the main- 



