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with the usual many or cluster-spiked form, but this suppression of all 

 the spikes but one seems rather a casual state or condition than a true 

 variety of the species. 



Scirpus sylvaticus. In damp woods, thickets, and along the shady 

 margins of brooks, drains, ditches, &c. In various parts of the Isle of 

 Wight, but almost entirely confined to East Medina, and more parti- 

 cularly there to the valley of the East Yar. In drains or ditches on 

 Sandown Level in several places, but sparingly, becoming more fre- 

 quent higher up the stream. In a marshy spot on the north-east side 

 of Youngwood's Copse, near Newchurch, in great plenty. Abundant 

 in a willow bed called, I believe, Quobb, on the borders of Sandown 

 Marshes, a little east of Alverston ; also in a willow thicket betwixt 

 Messley farm and Langbridge, and in the withy bed above the bridge, 

 in plenty. Abundant in the Parsonage Lynch, Newchurch. Pro- 

 fusely at the northern extremity of Horringford withy bed, also by the 

 stream close to Horringford Bridge, and along the ditches opposite 

 Stickworth, very commonly. Still higher up the same stream (East Yar) 

 it again becomes frequent along its course, and in the willow beds by 

 its side, betwixt Bridge and Bagwich, as also betwixt Roude and 

 Bridge Court (all by Godshill), near the latter in one or two spots, 

 pretty plentifully. It grows likewise betwixt Merrygarden and Che- 

 verton farms, by the stream on the right hand of the little bridge the 

 road goes over, and most abundantly in a moist spot in the angle of a 

 copse a little south-west of Combley farm, near Arreton, quite cover- 

 ing the ground. Sparingly in a wet meadow by Newport Mill (West 

 Mill ?). By St. John's turnpike, Ryde (Monckton Mead), Dr. T. Bell 

 Salter. By the bridge at Alverston, in plenty, Id. !! Under the cliff 

 at Shanklin, Mr. Dawson Turner in Snooke's Fl. Vect. Not uncom- 

 mon, I conceive, in mainland Hants, although as yet I have only the 

 undermentioned stations to give for this beautiful and conspicuous 

 plant. Plentifully along the streams a little to the south-east of 

 Petersfield, in several places, as well as by the mill at Sheet, near 

 that town. Frequent apparently about Selborne. In one or two wet 

 hollows in the bends of the stream betwixt Priory and Oakhanger, 

 plentifully. I found it most profusely in the Combe Pond, betwixt 

 Selborne and Priory farm, a part of which was exclusively filled with 

 it in full flower, June 17, 1850 ; but the pond is in progress of drain- 

 ing, and the species may not continue to grow there much longer. 

 Dr. Salter finds it by the bridge at Oakhanger, and in a swamp at the 

 foot of Weekhill hanger. I noticed it, in 1848, in several places 



