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A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 1020). 



Eleocharis palnstris. In wet meadows, ditches, sides of pools, 

 and in other marshy or boggy places ; abundantly throughout the 

 county. In the wet meadow within the walls of Quarr Abbey. 

 Abundant in Brading marshes, near the sluice, and various other parts 

 of the island. 



Eleocharis uniglumis has, I understand, been found by Mr. Woods 

 in Dorsetshire, near the Hants boundary. Of this species, real or as- 

 sumed as such, I know nothing, but judging from the very slight dis- 

 tinctions laid down in the ' Manual ' for its discrimination from E. 

 palustris, anticipate its re-union with that common and variable plant 

 at no distant day. * 



Eleocharis multicaulis. On turfy bogs, and wet places on moors, 

 heaths and commons ; probably not very unfrequent. In several parts 

 of the Isle of Wight, as on the marshy skirts of Lake and Blackpan 

 Commons (the north side, adjoining Sandown Level), in considerable 

 plenty. Most abundantly on the boggy south-eastern declivity of 

 Bleak Down, facing Roude. In a boggy pasture between Saynham 

 and Dew's Place. Bog at Freshwater, Mr. Dawson Turner in Snooke's 

 Fl. Vect. Bog at Blackpan, Dr. T. Bell Salter ! 



Eleocharis acicularis. On the shallow margins of pools, ditches 

 and streams, and in damp, sandy spots on heaths, &c. ; very rare ? 

 Not yet detected, to my knowledge, in the Isle of Wight. Along the 

 muddy edges of Wall's Pond, Holy Water, on Wolmer Forest, abun- 

 dantly, and still in pretty full flower, Aug. 29, 1849. Brockenhurst 

 Bridge, 1843, Mr. Borrer (in litt). 1 could not find it last summer 

 (1849). Probably not uncommon in the county, as Mr. Borrer seems 

 to hold it a frequent Sussex plant. 



Scirpus maritimus. Abundant in salt-marsh pools and ditches, 

 and on the muddy shores of tide rivers and inlets on every part of the 

 coast, both of the Isle of Wight and mainland. Ditches behind Ryde 

 Dover. In Brading, Sandown, Newtown and Freshwater marshes, 

 &c, abundantly. Var. /3. monostachys ; spike solitary. Of this I 

 found many specimens last year in a marsh ditch on Hayling Island, 

 Vol itt. 6 q 



