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marltima everywhere. Coronopus didyma, in various places by the road sides. Al- 

 though we very carefully examined the whole line of beach between Brighton and 

 Worthing, we could not find a single specimen of Trifolium stellatum : the only ha- 

 bitat, as stated in the 'Botanist's Guide' &c. is "between the sea and Shoreham Har- 

 bour in the gi'eatest profusion," and supposed to have been originally introduced in 

 ballast. I should very much wish to know if any specimens have been taken from this 

 station of late years. I have specimens in my herbarium from this locality, collected 

 upwards of thirty years ago ; the great alterations that have taken place at the en- 

 trance of the harbour, by the erection of piers &c., have in all probability destroyed the 

 habitat. On our return from Shoreham we observed Sambucus Ebulus very plenti- 

 fully but not in flower, by the sides of the road, against the toll-gate at Bramber and 

 in the fosse at the foot of the old castle. Iris foetidissima, very plentiful and in full 

 flower. — /. D. Salmon ; Godahning, November 8, 1841. 



88. Ci/perus longus in the Isle of Wight. It will, I have no doubt, interest the 

 readers of ' The Phytologist ' to know that I have detected " the tall and graceful Cy- 

 perus," as my friend the Rev. G. E. Smith very justly calls it, in three distant locali- 

 ties within the island. In two of the above stations it is abundant ; in the third, a wet 

 meadow below Carisbrook Castle, on the S.E. side, very rare, a specimen or two only 

 having been gathered. I first detected Cyperus longus, which I had always calculated 

 on eventually finding with us, quite accidentally, in a low meadow at Apes Down,* 

 between Carisbrooke and Swainston, the seat of Sir Richard Simeon, Bart., on whose 

 land it grows, and within a mile of the house on the Carisbrooke road, at the bottom 

 of a steep pitch, the meadow being on the right coming from Carisbrooke, and nearly 

 opposite a small farm. This was in 1839, and the next year I found the plant in still 

 greater quantity, covering at least half an acre, in a marshy meadow through which 

 runs a little stream, between the new lighthouse at St. Catherine's Point, and empties 

 itself into the sea at Old Castle Point by Puckaster, the station being much nearer the 

 latter, and below the farm of Little Buddie, by which there is a path that conducts 

 almost to the spot, within ten minutes walk of the Sand-rock Hotel. The Cyperus 

 begins to flower about the middle of August, but is in its greatest perfection a month 

 later, after which it is usually mown down by the occupier of the land, as green fod- 

 der for his cattle, to which this plant, from its sweetness, is very acceptable. — Wm. 

 Arnold Bromfield ; East Mount, Ryde, Isle of Wight, November 8, 1841. 



89. Note on Tamarix gallica, (Phytol. 91). Pulteney long since gave Freshwater 

 Gate as a habitat [for this plant], but I could never find it there, except as a cultiva- 

 ted tree, by the hotel, a condition which, of course, excludes it entirely from notice 

 amongst our indigenous productions. As far as my own observation goes, the genus 

 Tamaiix should be expunged, with Staphylea and some others, from the British Flo- 

 ra, since I cannot ascertain that it is even naturalized, strictly speaking, in any of its 

 recorded stations. At Hastings it certainly does not grow spontaneously, though sta- 

 ted to do so by Goodenough, and it has but too evidently been planted at St. Michael's 

 Mount and other places in Cornwall, as well as at Languard Fort, and in every other 

 spot where I have had an opportunity of seeing it. — Id. 



* This place must not be confounded with Apse Heath, or Apse Castle, which are 

 in a diS'erent part of the island, though the orthography was probably once the same 

 in all.— PT. A. B. 



