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no clew to the locality. A plant of this kind, limited perhaps to a 

 single circumscribed station, is as likely to elude observation as Teu- 

 crium Botrys, Apera interrupta, Simethis bicolor, and other recent but 

 indubitably indigenous additions to the English flora. 



Arundo Calamagrostis (Calam. lauceolata). In boggy, moory or 

 marshy ground, wet hedges, woods, meadows and ditches; very rare? 

 Not yet seen in the Isle of Wight. In wet or boggy hedges on the 

 east side of Gomer Pond, Mr. Borrer. I gathered it in moderate 

 plenty on boggy, moory meadows, amongst Arundo Phi'agmites, rushes, 

 and coarse herbage of various plants, very near the Grange Farm, by 

 Alverstoke, June and July, 1849. The station at Marchwood, near 

 Southampton, sent by me to Mr. Watson, and inserted by him in the 

 ' New Botanist's Guide ' (Supplement), as on Mr. Borrer's authority, 

 was a mistake of my own, for which I cannot now account, Mr. B. 

 never having, as he tells me, found this species at Marchwood. 



Arundo Epigejos (Calam. Epigejos). In open places, and borders 

 of moist woods and thickets, in damp, shady, bushy pastures, on sand 

 and clay ; abundant on the northern side of the Isle of Wight, and 

 especially in East Medina. Everywhere about Ryde, where there 

 are few patches of cepse or thicket wholly without this grass. In 

 Quarr Copse, Shore Copse, Whitefield Wood, &c. Woods about 

 Wootton Bridge and Havenstreet. At St. Helen's, in a wood by 

 Hill Farm, and in rough, bushy ground by the descent to the mill 

 from the green. In Long Phillis and Inward's Copses, near Ashey. 

 Above Cowpit Cliff, near Shanklin. Near the Medina, above Cowes, 

 in and about Parkhurst Forest and elsewhere near Newport. Almost 

 everywhere along the shore, on wet clay, between East Cowes and 

 King's Quay, as well as on the shores of the latter estuary. Less fre- 

 quent in West Medina, but frequent about Yarmouth, as in Salterns 

 Copse, by the road side nearly opposite Afton House, in Thorness 

 Wood and shore adjacent, near Wellow, &c. Found in numberless 

 other places in the island, but nowhere, I think, on the chalk, neither 

 have I remarked it on the gait or in any part of the Undercliff, or 

 elsewhere along the south coast. Woods along the Beaulieu River, 

 between Beaulieu and Exbury, and near Upper Exbury brick-field, 

 Aug. 28, 1850. 



Psamma arenaria (Ammophila arundinacea). On loose sand of 

 the sea shore ; abundantly. Plentiful on the Spit at Norton and St. 

 Helen's. On the beach at Sandown, but not plentiful. Used for- 

 merly to grow, but very sparingly, at the east end of Ryde Dover ; 

 probably now destroyed. Profusely along the south beach of Hayling 



