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ditch near Ninhara farm, by Ryde. Plentiful about Lake Common 

 and in various parts of Sandown Level. By Lashmere Pool, at the 

 foot of Bleak Down, but perhaps extinct there by the late draining. 

 In a boggy meadow a little above Newbridge towards Calbourne 

 Mill. Undercliff and east of Shanklin Chine ; Mr. Wm. Wilson 

 Saunders. Meadows by Steephill, Mr. Fred. Townsend. Not likely 

 to be rare in mainland Hants, but I have only the following localities 

 to cite for it at present. Moist border of a field on the skirts of 

 Durley Wood, near Bishop's Waltham, 1849. By a pool betwixt 

 Cracknore Hard and Marchwood, near Southton, July, 1850. Row- 

 nam, near Southton ; Mr. James Hussey ! 



Scirpus Savii. Far from uncommon in the Isle of Wight and 

 along the opposite coasts of the county, in similar places with S. seta- 

 ceus, in damp springy spots by rills, in woods and on heaths, also on 

 wet slipped land by the sea shore, &c, never at any considerable dis- 

 tance from the latter, or in the interior of the county. On the farthest 

 part of St. Helen's Green. Most profusely on the banks of slipped 

 land under the Cliff in Sandown Bay, within half a mile of Shanklin 

 Chine on its north side, 1840 and 1844 (See Phytol. ii. p. 516); some 

 of the densely cespitose, depressed and radiating spreading tufts mea- 

 sured as much as fifteen inches across. Wet spots on Briddlesford 

 Heath, and in a marshy meadow not far from Landguard farm, by 

 Shanklin, in one spot plentifully. Colwell Heath, Fresh water. I 

 find it in various places betwixt Niton and Blackgang, especially 

 along the little stream that descends over the dislocated land to the 

 sea, in great abundance, as well as in most plashy spots on that part 

 of the coast. These are the principal stations known to me in the 

 Isle of Wight for this little Scirpus, but it may be found in most 

 other parts of it occasionally, by looking in the proper situations, 

 where it is apt to be mistaken by those unacquainted with it for S. 

 setaceus. Mr. Borrer, one of the first I believe to recognize it in the 

 south-east of England in modern times, may be held its discoverer 

 again in our own day in the Isle of Wight;* he having noticed it 

 many years ago at Knowle near Niton. Perhaps not less frequent 

 along the opposite mainland coast, although this rather common 

 Hampshire plant would seem to fail reaching Sussex to the eastward. 

 On wet sand-banks near Christchurch (Hengisbury) Head, Oct., 1849. 

 On wet gravel in a field a little way from the bridge at Lymington, 



* I have shown in a former part of this journal (Phytol. ii. p. 516) that S. Savii 

 was distinguished specifically from S. setaceus, more thau two centuries back. 



