seen our Calaminllia in the sequestered woods about Rowledge, can, 

 I think, hesitate to pronounce it truly wild with us ; and I trust this 

 notice of its discovery in the Isle of Wight, will, ere long, lead to its 

 detection in other parts of the kingdom. The flowering period, like 

 that of our commoner species (likewise found in this island), appears 

 to be August and September, perhaps continued into October. 



Care must be taken, as I have before mentioned (Phytol. 131), not 

 to confound Apes down with Apse farm and Apse castle, between 

 Shanklin and Newchurch ; the latter probably had its designation 

 from aspen trees, which in Vectian vernacular language are called apse. 



Wm. Arnold Bromfield. 



Ryde, September 1, 1843. 



Art. CLXXVITT. —Varieties. 



380. Note on the new Cuscuta. I enclose some specimens of the 

 Cuscuta, gathered yesterday in a field of Sir J. M. Adam's near Thax- 

 ted, where it has destroyed a considerable quantity of clover, growing 

 in circular patches of from four to twelve feet in diameter, killing the 

 clover in the centre, and then spreading round to an indefinite extent. 

 It does not appear quite to agree with Babington's description, the 

 limb of the corolla being spreading, as in C. Epithymum, of which, 

 perhaps, it will only prove a variety. — G. S. Gibson ; Saffron Wal- 

 den, August 24, 1843. 



381. Note on Isnardia palustris. I may mention that 1 collected, 

 the last week in August, Isnardia palustris in reasonable abundance, 

 in Mr. Borrer's new station at Brockenhurst, though not in flower : 

 the locality brings this rare species within a iqw miles of our Isle of 

 Wight shores. — Wm. Arnold Bromjield ; Ryde, September 1, 1843. 



382. The least troublesome method of drying Plants for the Her- 

 barium. That the art of drying plants is very little understood by 

 the eollecting botanists of this country, is but too well shown by the 

 wretched specimens sent to the Botanical Societies for distribution. 

 Yet nothing is more easy than the making of good specimens, by bo- 

 tanists who have the opportunity of drying plants at home, or at any 

 fixed locality. I have tried various processes, in order to ascertain 



mediterranea and Menziesia polifolia, wLose chief seat is in the Pyrenees and moun- 

 tains of the Asturias in Spain. I find that Calamintha grandiflora occurs in Belgium, 

 according to Lejoune, Fl. de Sp. 2me part. p. 3.3. 



