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num rupicola (is this specific name a noun or an adjective ?) is 

 Spergularia rupestris of the London Catalogue, and attributed, 

 but erroneously, to Cambessedes, and which probably is Arenaria 

 rubra, var. macrorhiza, Moris, Fl. Sardica, i, p, 278 ; see Brom- 

 field's Fl. Vectensis, p. 76, The amiable author last quoted adds 

 to the synonyms the following, — " Moris very judiciously con- 

 siders this a mere variety, and assigns very sufficient reasons for 

 his opinion." It might further be questioned whether Spergula 

 subulata and Sagina subulata be merely synonyms, or represen- 

 tatives of two different plants ! 



In this synopsis of the Yectian Flora, the author has ventured 

 to enter a few exotic or at least doubtfully native plants ; for 

 example. Arum italicum, MeUlotus arvensis, etc. ; and the fol- 

 lowing are humbly offered as supplementary to these suspected 

 or certain aliens, viz. Rj/pericum calycinum, in a wood skirting 

 the shore between Ryde and Quarr Copse; Linaria purpurea, 

 not merely on walls, where it is not uncommon in some parts of 

 England, but on the garden ground, where it had no appearance 

 of having been either sown or planted by the present generation. 

 Impatiens parviflora, not far from Hyde, dh the road to Upton ; 

 Actinocarpus Damasonium ?, Villarsia nymphaoides , Hydrocha- 

 ris Morsus-rance, — see Bromfield, 476, who writes, '^abundantly 

 naturalized in a pool on Barrett's Common, two miles and a 

 half from Hyde," — Stratiotes aloides ? These plants, or some of 

 them, were seen in a small pond between Upton and St. Helen's, 

 several years ago. There was no doubt about the Villarsia, but 

 there is a doubt hanging to the others. It is now several years 

 since we were there, and our memoranda are mislaid. It was 

 unknown to us at that period, that they were not as common on 

 the Isle as they are on the mainland. 



The geographical relations of plants have been very much 

 altered in modern times. The list of extinct plants and of the 

 new arrivals in this island, shows that the laws which have beeu 

 supposed to affect the distribution of plants, are not universally 

 applicable. Observation and history both teach us that we must 

 liberalize our vegetable creed. 



We are not apprehensive that these critical remarks will be 

 misunderstood ; our object is simply to do justice both to the 

 subject and to the author. In reference to the former, it is 

 hinted that a more liberal use of tlje English appellatives might 



