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A Catalogue of the Plants growing wild in Hampshire, with occa- 

 sional Notes and Observations on some of the more remarkable 

 Species. By William Arnold Bhomfield, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from page 1084). 



Milium effusum. In moist, shady woods and thickets. In various 

 parts of the Isle of Wight, but not very common, and principally found 

 in East Medina. About Ryde, in Quarr Copse, in some parts of 

 which it is common ; in Shore Copse, sparingly ; wood between Quarr 

 and Ninhara; in Briddlesford, Bloodstone and Inward's Copses ; New 

 Copse, near Wootton Bridge. Sparingly in copses under Arreton and 

 Mersley Downs. Wood at Apse Castle ; in Cowpit Cliff, Greatwood 

 and other hill-side copses, between Shanklin and Bonchurch, plenti- 

 fully. Wood near Norris Castle, East Cowes. Tolt Wood, near Gat- 

 combe (in W. Medina). Copse on the north side of Wroxall Down, 

 above Wroxall Farm. I happen to have few stations for this conspi- 

 cuous grass marked down in my notes for mainland Hants, but find 

 it to be very general over that part of the county. Harewood Forest, 

 near Andover, in plenty, and in woods about three miles from the 

 same town, a little beyond Enham, on the Newbury road, 1850. Pro- 

 fusely in Crab Wood, by Sparsholt, three miles west of Winton, May 

 28, 1850. Hambledon Woods, about Alton, as in Akender Wood, 

 Chawton Park, Rotherfield, Selborne and elsewhere, in plenty, June, 

 1850. 



Agrostis selacea. On dry, turfy heaths, commons and high downs, 

 sometimes also in woods and copses, where the soil is sandy or gra- 

 velly (never, I think, seen on the chalk) ; abundantly in the Isle of 

 Wight, and the maritime districts of mainland Hants. Plentiful on 

 the higher parts of Apse Castle. Profusely on St. George's Down 

 and Stopler's Heath, by Newport, as also, before it was enclosed, on 

 Royal Heath, Sandown. Heathy places about Kingston. In Young- 

 wood's Copse; all over Bordwood Copse, Apse Heath and other 

 places about Newchurch, abundantly, and indeed in most dry, heathy 

 and elevated ground throughout the island. About Colwell Hill 

 Farm and Freshwater, not unfrequent, Mr. W. D. Snooke in Fl. Vect. 

 Not less plentiful on the mainland of Hants towards the coast ; ex- 

 tremely rare, if found at all, in the centre and north of the county, but 

 I have not yet determined its limits inland. The staple grass in most 

 of the following localities : — Brown Down, behind Stoke's Bay ; on 

 Titchfield Common ; Southampton Common ; the prevailing grass on 

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