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57. Gentiana Pneumonanthe with white flowers. I send herewith a white-flowered 

 specimen of Gentiana Pneumonanthe. It was gathered on the 5th of August last, at 

 PouUon-le-Sands, near Lancaster, in the same place as that from which I stored my- 

 self in July last year, hut where, 1 fear, ere next summer, the plough will have de- 

 stroyed the hoard. The plant grew among whins, confined to an area of a very few 

 feet, in the centre of an uncultivated piece of ground. Out of sixty specimens ga- 

 thered hy me this year, about twelve were white ; and perhaps the white were in the 

 same proportion to the blue ones last year, hut I did not take particular notice. Their 

 appearance in the bright sunshine was most exquisite. — Id. 



58. Polygonum dumetorum grows copiously in the hedges on more than one part of 

 the road from the Woking-Common station to Guildford. — /. S. Mill ; Kensington, 

 Octobei- 3, 1841. 



[This is one of those odd plants which we can never expect to find in the same 

 spot two years in succession. At least such is the case so far as we are taught by 

 our observation of its habits in the neighbourhood of Reigate. Previously to the year 

 1 836, when we had the good fortune to detect it, Polygonum dumetorum was not 

 known as a Reigate plant; in the following year it was found in one or two other sta- 

 tions; from one at least of these it has entirely disappeared, but to make amends has 

 sprung up in the greatest abundance in a locality some miles from either of those 

 previously occupied by il. We are always glad to record the stations of such plants, 

 wherever they may choose temporaiily to take up their residence. — JEd."] 



69. Rarer Plants of the Isle of Wight. I observed the following less common 

 plants in the Isle of Wight, during a week's tour in July, some years ago. 



MARITIME PLANTS. 



Matthiola, (no doubt) incana, or Cheiran- Cakile maritima 



thus incanus, in inaccessible plt-.ces Adenarium (Arenaria) peploides 



on Compton Cliff's, Freshwater Bay. Pyrethrum maritimum (Ryde) 



The same plant grows most abun- Convolvulus Soldanella (sands near Yar- 



dantly in places overhanging the sea mouth) 



on the promontory of Posilipo, and Salsola Kali (Ryde) 



other similar situations near Naples, Atriplex littoralis 



where it flowers copiously in Febru- Beta maritima 



ary, and little children collect bou- Euphorbia Peplis (Sandown Bay) 



quets of the plant at great apparent Arundo arenaria 



risk, to sell to passers by. Triticum Nardus 



SALT MARSHES NEAR YARMOUTH. 



Althaea oflicinalis Salicornia herbacea 



Tamarix gallica Chenopodium maritimum 



IN A MARITIME BOG AT EASTON, NEAR FRESHWATER. 



Ranunculus Lingua Scirpus maritimus 



Epipactis palustris Cladium Mariscus 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Pea hulbosa. Alum Bay. 



Mentha rotundifolia. This plant, so common on the continent, but comparatively so 



unfrequent in England, grows on the Undercliff", in a maritime situation, near 



Puckaster Cove. 

 Lathyrus sylveslris and Rubia peregrina. Common in hedges on the Undercliff. The 



former grows in profusion on the landslip near Bonchurch. 



