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really uncommon, or, what is more likely, passed unnoticed by me in 

 the Isle of Wight. Plentifully on the northern side of Headon Hill, 

 overlooking Tetland Bay, June, 1841. Pointed out to me at the foot 

 of Bleak Down by Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders, July, 1841. Pastures 

 near Rookley Farm, 1842, and in moist pastures close to the Wilder- 

 ness, June 17, 1844. It has not fallen in my way on mainland Hants, 

 where there is every reason to suppose it cannot be very unfrequent. 

 Titch field Common, Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



Lepturus incurvatus (Rotboellia incurvata, L.). In salt-marsh 

 meadows and pastures, and along the grassy borders of creeks and 

 inlets of the sea and tide-rivers ; not unfrequently. Var. i3.. Spikes 

 very slender, scarcely curved (L. filiformis), is connected with the 

 stouter, more incurved form by so many intermediate gradations, that 

 in practice they can with difficulty be made subjects of reference. 

 Near Ryde, but rarely. Meadow between Quarr Abbey and the sea. 

 St. Helen's, 1840, and in a little creek by Carpenter's. At Spring- 

 field, on the waste ground in front of the houses near what was till 

 lately the Vernon Hotel, also in salt-marsh meadows between Spring- 

 field and Sea View, July, 1843. Between Yarmouth and Freshwater. 

 Amongst short grass near the shore at Norton, just opposite to where 

 the road to Freshwater goes off from the beach. The foregoing sta- 

 tions refer to the var. |S., or forms inclining to it rather than to a. ; the 

 following belong to the latter, stouter and more incurved state of the 

 species. Extremely luxuriant and abundant in flat salt-marsh mea- 

 dows by Newtown, growing in great, spreading tufts, 1842. With 

 short, thick, strongly incurved culms, and cespitose growth, in culti- 

 vated fields above Freshwater Bay, a short distance from the hotel 

 (Groves's), on the ascent of the down towards the Needles, in great 

 plenty, where it was pointed out to me some years ago by the Rev. 

 G. E. Smith, who supposes it must have been conveyed with sea- 

 weed, for manure, to this odd situation. Thorness Bay, Rev. Wm. 

 H. Coleman, 1842 !!! By the Medina, near Dalliraore's Farm, in 

 plenty (a stouter foi*m of (3.), and along the shore between W. Cowes 

 and Egypt, Miss G. E. Kilderbee !!! Here and there in many other 

 parts of the island. Not rare along the opposite coast. Shores of 

 Langston Harbour. I have noticed it in West Hants, I think at 

 Lymington, and in the Beaulieu River, but I have not been at much 

 pains to note down stations for a species so frequent as this. Wicor 

 Hard; the Salterns (Fareham), Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



A singular grass, bearing some resemblance, when in full flower, to 

 Lolium perenne, and delighting to grow amongst the herbage skirting 



