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Isle of Wight, seldom, if ever, I think, scarce at any time with us, but 

 constantly becoming so on former, and appearing in new, stations. 

 Its habitats are so numerous, and at the same time so little to be de- 

 pended upon for permanence, that a particular mention of many of 

 them would be superfluous. About Byde in most years, common. 

 On the Dover (at least formerly), about Quarr Abbey and Fishbourne, 

 at St. Helen's, Sea View, and various other places. Woods on the 

 west side of the Wootton River, July, 1845. Fields and woods along 

 the new road from Wootton Bridge to King's Quay, in abundance, 

 Aug. 1848. Very abundantly on the waste building-lots at East Cowes 

 Park, June, 1846, and common generally around Cowes, in corn-fields, 

 &c, also about Newport, at Garrett's, &c. A perfect weed in corn- 

 fields sometimes, about Yarmouth, Thorley, and in Freshwater parish, 

 both in the standing wheat and on the stubbles after harvest, which 

 are often quite overrun with it till late into autumn. Not particular 

 as to soil, but I think more prevalent on the chalk and clays of the 

 tertiary deposit than on the greensand, and in low more than in up- 

 land fields. The species here is as truly sylvestral as agrestal or via- 

 tical. If not so common along the coast of mainland Hants as in this 

 island, it is at least no rarity there. In Hayling Island, not unfre- 

 quent. Near Boldre, Lymington, &c. Fields near Blackbrook ; 

 Maindell (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. One of the most beautiful and 

 elegant of European grasses, the pale green, spear-shaped panicle, 

 shining with a silvery lustre, the dense tufts of erect or spreading 

 culms, often eighteen or twenty inches in height, making a conspicuous 

 appearance in our wheat-fields, where the plant maybe found in flower 

 from June to October. The figures of G. lendigerura in all our illus- 

 trated works on British botany are for the most part below mediocrity. 

 That of E. B. is very indifferent ; those of Knapp and Parnell poor 

 and meagre in the extreme ; the one in Baxter's ' British Flowering 

 Plants ' (done from Ryde specimens) is much superior, but still want- 

 ing in some points. 



Polypogon monspeliensis. In brackish pastures, and muddy salt- 

 marsh land, in and on the edges of salt-water or brackish ditches and 

 swamps, also (but not with us) in dry, sandy pastures and waste places 

 near the sea ; rare. Not yet detected in the Isle of Wight. Known 

 ever since the time of Lobel to inhabit this county, but first found by 

 myself, growing in considerable abundance, July, 1848, partly in damp, 

 and partly in very wet, salt-marsh ground near some long-since aban- 

 doned salt-works on the north-east side of the point of land projecting 

 into Langston Harbour, about half a mile due south, nearly from Far- 

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