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adjoining a brickyard, in considerable plenty, Sept., 1849. Near 

 Boklre, on the way to Royden farm, with Centunculus minimus. In 

 the Isle of Wight I have hitherto remarked only the variety with a 

 solitary spike (var. |3 monastachys, Hooker), but in the specimens col- 

 lected at Lymington many of the stems bore two spikes, very rarely 

 three, the second spike usually somewhat lateral, either quite sessile 

 or on a peduncle more or less elongated, sometimes even greatly ex- 

 ceeding the spike itself in length. In many instances the stems were 

 forked at the summit, each fork bearing a solitary spike, neither of 

 which was more evidently terminal than its fellow; and often the ter- 

 minal as well as the lateral spikes was elevated on a longish stalk or 

 peduncle, all these peduncles being distinguished from mere prolon- 

 gations of the stem by strongly winged, deeply projecting ridges, 

 giving the appearance of being spirally twisted. In these specimens 

 the bracts were very short and minute, and in a great proportion of 

 the spikes obsolete. 



Scirpus Holoschoenus. In damp sandy places on or near the sea- 

 shore; very rare, and perhaps extinct in Hants. "On the sea-shore 

 in this county," Robson (Bot. Guide). Found in Hampshire, by 

 Sherard (Moris. Hist. Plant iii. p. 232), and in this county, according 

 to Petiver, also (Ray's Syn.) Not detected, so far as I am aware, by 

 any botanist of more recent times, but as no station was given by the 

 authorities quoted above, there is every possibility that this rare plant 

 still grows in some little explored corner of our extensive coast line. 



Blysmus compressus. In marshy or boggy pastures, on turf 

 moors and grassy sides of rivers, ponds, &c, rare? Fisher's Pond 

 near Bishop's Stoke; Mrs. Delme RadclifTe !!! The first notice I had 

 of this as a Hampshire species was from Mr. J. Hussey, in whose 

 herbarium at Salisbury I saw specimens in May last, received by him 

 from Mrs. R., who kindly gave me directions to the locality. I could 

 not find it in the precise spot indicated to me at the south-west end of 

 the pond, but gathered it in tolerable plenty on a space of moderate 

 extent close to the water's edge, about the centre of the western side 

 of the pond, July 6, 1850. In very great plenty in some moory mea- 

 dows by the river side, betwixt Bishop's Stoke and Otterbourne, a 

 little to the eastward of the South Western Railway, and to the north- 

 ward of Highbridge, July 10, 1850. It occurs unquestionably else- 

 where in the county, and may be reasonably expected in the Isle of 

 W T ight. In Baxter's ' Flowering Plants of Britain,' it is stated, on the 

 authority of Mr. Bicheno, to be plentiful about Newbury in Berks, 

 which town being only two miles from the Hampshire boundary, the 



