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paving and kerb-stones. Under the wall by the Yacht Club House, 

 West Cowes, and on waste ground in front of it, plentifully. By the 

 White House, East Cowes, and in various other places about that 

 town, at least several years ago, but not recently looked for there or 

 in the remaining stations just referred to. I have seen this species 

 on the mainland opposite coast, but cannot now find notes (if 1 made 

 such) of its occurrence. I believe to have remarked it at Lymington, 

 in or near the Salterns, and I think in other places. 



Sclerochloa rigida (Poarigida). On dry, barren and waste ground, 

 fallows, walls, rocks and cliffs ; not uncommon either in the Isle of 

 Wight or across the water. Amongst the ruins of Quarr Abbey, and 

 on Kyde Dover, if not now destroyed by building. On cliffs near 

 Ventnor, St. Lawrence, &c. By the road- side between Niton and 

 Blackgang, at the foot of the stone fences, pretty abundantly, 1842. 

 Abundant in dry, chalky fields at the foot of High Down, between 

 the Needles Hotel and Alum Bay. Corn-field near Calbourne New 

 Barn, 1842. On the wall or stone-faced bank below the church at 

 Newchurch, in considerable plenty, with Petroselinum sativum (quite 

 and long naturalized there). At Yarb ridge, and various other places. 

 Shide Chalk-pit, &c; rather common throughout the island, Mr. W. 

 D. Snooke in Fl. Vect. Not rare on mainland Hants, but time will 

 not permit me now to look out for the observed localities amongst my 

 notes. Fields at Selborne. On a wall at Portsmouth, in plenty, and 

 gathered in many places in the county. 



Sclerochloa loliacea. On dry, barren and sandy ground, walls, 

 banks, cliffs, and pastures by the sea, but rare in the Isle of Wight. 

 On Ryde Dover, sparingly ; not seen there for years, and in all likeli- 

 hood now quite extirpated. At St. Catharine's Point, not far from the 

 new lighthouse (St. Catharine's Tower), Sandown Bay. Yarmouth, 

 Isle of Wight, Mr. E. Forster, jun., in Bot. Guide, and Mr. Dawson 

 Turner in Snooke's Fl. Vect. (probably on Norton Spit). St. Helen's, 

 Dr. Macreight, Man. of Brit. Bot., where I also found it, July, 1839. 

 I have no mainland station to assign for this interesting but withal 

 somewhat ambiguous species. 



Briza media. In dry or barren fields, pastures, meadows, and on 

 turfy heaths ; abundant in every part of the island and mainland. 

 Profusely on the short turf of our high chalk-downs, as well as in the 

 more humid and fertile soil of hay-fields and artificial grass-lands, 

 into the produce of which it sometimes enters rather too largely. A 

 variety with pale-green spikelets, the result of excess of shade or 

 moisture, is not uncommon, and has been occasionally taken on the 



