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marshy sides of rivers, &c, also on wet, slipped land along the coast. 

 Not rare in the Isle of Wight. About Ryde, in Marina Wood, by 

 Apley, and in woods at the mouth of the Wootton River, on the west 

 shore (profusely in the boggy parts of Chapel Corner Copse). Abun- 

 dant in various places about Shanklin, as in the Chine, and in the ra- 

 vine along the stream below the church, and under the garden of the 

 Shanklin (late Williams's, now Hale's) Hotel. Plentiful in Great 

 Copse, about half a mile out of Shanklin on the road to Ventnor, and 

 frequent in Hungerberry Copse. About Cowes, as in woods at Nor- 

 ris Castle, and especially in Buckett's Copse, on her Majesty's estate 

 at Osborne, in the utmost profusion ; frequent also along the shore 

 near West Cowes, towards Gurnet Bay. Abundant in copses between 

 Gurnet and Thorness Bay. At Sheat Farm, near the Medina below 

 Newport, in great profusion. Less frequent, it would seem, in main- 

 land Hants. Most abundantly in a moist part of Durley Wood, near 

 Bishop's Waltham, near the fine trout stream that flows in front of 

 Calcot Farm. In a wet place below St. Cross, by Winton, to the 

 westward of the mill, May, 1849. Gill Copse (Fareham), Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt. The largest Carex in Europe, if not in the world, often 

 rising with us to six feet, and highly ornamental from its spreading 

 tufts of fine, broad root-leaves, long, slender, elegantly drooping pis- 

 tillate, and nodding, club-shaped staminate spikes. Always begins 

 flowering in this county soon after the middle of April. 



Carex Pseado-Cyperus. In wet, swampy places, woods, thickets, 

 pools, ditches, river-sides, &c. ; not very common in the Isle of Wight. 

 A single tuft in Quarr Copse, June, 1844. Between Brading and 

 Sandown, in marsh ditches between Yarbridge and Yaverland, under 

 Marshcombe Copse, in some plenty; also in ditches nearly at the 

 back of Lower Morton Farm. Boggy spots by the little stream that 

 descends to the sea between Niton and Blackgang, in some abundance, 

 particularly in a swampy tract of ground partly enclosed by a stone 

 fence near the shore, in great plenty, growing in large tufts, June, 1841. 

 Picked in a pond between Wootton Bridge and King's Quay (one 

 specimen only). In one or two places in the marsh at Easton, Fresh- 

 water Gate (perhaps destroyed by draining). Wood near Smallbrook 

 Farm, about a mile from Ryde, Rev. G. E. Smith, 1838 !!! Picked 

 at Christchurch, on the road to Sopley. Ditch-bank by the canal 

 about a mile from Romsey, towards Timsbury, in some plenty, and 

 on peat in a meadow not far from the same locality. In enormous 

 quantity in ditches of the meadows adjacent to Broadland's Park 

 (Lord Palmerston's), by Romsey, on the west side, quite filling them 



