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Iris fcEtidissima. As common on the Undercliff, and (if I recollect right) in other 



parts of the island as in Devonshire. 

 Inula Helenium. By the side of a lane between Yarmouth and Freshwater Bay, hut 



sparingly. 



PLANTS COLLECTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS ON THE COAST OF HAMPSHIRE, OPPOSITE 



TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Atriplex portulacoides. Abundant in salt marshes at Lymington. 

 Bartsia viscosa and Fumaria capreolata. Roadside between Lymington and Exbury. 

 Euphorbia striata. Cornfields near Beaulieu river. 

 Campanula hederacea. New Forest, near Ashurst Lodge. 



Parnassia palustris, Drosera longifolia and Myrica Gale. In various parts of the Fo- 

 rest.— J. S. Mill. 



60. Laihrcsa squamaria. I once obtained a very expressive example of the para- 

 sitical property of Lathreea. It was attached to a small branch of the root of a pop- 

 lar, which was closely surrounded by the thick branched roots of the Lathrsea, whose 

 tuberous suckers penetrated the root of the poplar. The example figured by Mr. 

 Bowman in the Linnean Transactions, is evidently derived from a young plant. In 

 mine the suckers by which the root of the Lathrasa attached itself, were numerously 

 seated upon its principal divisions, not at the termination of the lesser branches mere- 

 ly, but wherever a point of contact between the parasite and its prey existed, there 

 were tebe found the suckers. — W. Wilson; Warrington, October 6, 1841. 



61. Sium nodijlorum. I beg to forward a specimen of Sium uodiflorum with a 

 remarkably long flower-stalk. The umbels of this species are commonly said to be 

 sessile, but in this neighbourhood at least, absolute sessility is rare. — Geo. Sparkes ; 

 Bromley, Kent, October 11, 1841. 



[The umbels of Sium nodiflorum are rarely, we believe, quite sessile, and we have 

 observed the peduncle to vary much in length ; in the specimen sent by our coiTespond- 

 ent it is about as long as the umbel. The specimen appears to be a portion of a 

 very luxuriant plant. — Ed^ 



62. Anagallis ccerulea. With respect to the query at p. 76 of ' The Phytologist,' I 

 may observe that I never found but one plant of Anagallis cserulea near Bromley, and 

 that I have in vain searched the same field for two successive years without finding 

 another. I once met with a solitary plant at Leamington in Warwickshire. The blue 

 in this instance had a distiuct shade of violet. — Id. 



63. Curious Fern. Enclosed are specimens of what I consider a very curious va- 

 riety of Athyrium Filix-foemina. The original plant was found in the county of Gal- 

 way, Ireland, by a Mr. Smith, brother I believe to Mr. Smith, curator to the Hull 

 Botanic Garden, where I noticed a vigorous specimen in the course of last summer. 

 During the last two years I have had many opportunities of observing the plant in cul- 

 tivation, in which state its form appears constant, although grown in a variety of soils 

 and situations. From the great irregularity in the laciniation of the pinnae I have 

 experienced considerable difliculty in determining its venation, which however appears 

 to agree with that of the normal state of the lady-fem. I have minutely examined a 

 great number of fronds, but can discover no traces of fructification. In the herbarium 

 of a friend I have seen specimens of an unusual form of A. Filix-fcemina collected in 

 Staffordshire, which agree with the one under consideration in the irregularity of size 

 and cutting of the pinnul2e, but are without any division or branching of the rachis; 

 they likewise agree in the dwarfish habit and permanent barrenness of the fronds. 



