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Equisetum sylvaticum. In boggy woods and thickets, and by 

 stream-sides, in wet, shady situations ; very rare. In the withy-bed 

 at the lower part of Apse Heath, in very great abundance. In the 

 Parsonage Lynch, Newchurch. These are the only stations I am 

 acquainted with for this slender and graceful species in Hampshire, 

 on the mainland part of which it most likely exists, but is an uncom- 

 mon plant in the south of England generally. 



Equisetum limosum. Frequent in shallow, slow or stagnant water, 

 as ditches, ponds, &c. with a muddy bottom. In the marsh-ditches 

 of Sandown Level, &c., abundantly, as also in the moors at Moor 

 Town, Brixton, along with E. palustre. In a small pool on the south 

 side of Cothey Bottom Copse,* between Westridge House and 

 Barnsley Farm. Plentiful, if I mistake not, as I speak from memory 

 only, in marsh-ditches at Brading and behind Gurnet Bay, and com- 

 mon, I think, in most parts of the county. By Titchfield River, Mr. 

 W. L. Notcutt. 



Equisetum palustre. In marshy or boggy places, on wet, gravelly 

 or sandy banks, turf-moors, &c. Less frequent than E. limosum. 

 Plentiful, with the last, in wet meadows about Brixton, at Moor Town, 

 &c. Abundant in the moist meadows at Easton, Freshwater Gate. 

 Shanklin Chine, in plenty. Var. /3. proliferum. With a. in several 

 of the foregoing stations, as about Shanklin Chine. In old gravel-pits 

 just beyond the bog at Cockleton. Bog at Cockleton, in abundance, 

 Miss G. E. Kilderbee ; also between Debborn turnpike and Gurnet 

 Farm, by the side of the road, Ead. !!! I do not happen to have 

 noticed this species on mainland Hants. 



Equisetum hyemale, more frequent in the north than the south of 

 England, should be looked for in our wet woods. 



Polypodium vulg^re. On damp rocks, walls, trunks of trees, and 

 shady hedge-banks ; abundant throughout the county and Isle of 

 Wight. Var. /3. Lower pinnae of the frond forked. Steephill, Mr. 

 Albert Hambrough ! Var. y. Fronds doubly pinnatifid. On a rock 

 at Bonchurch, 1845, Id.! This remarkable form of the common 

 Polypody resembles pretty closely that given in Newman's ' British 

 Ferns,' fig. g. p. 113, but in this the secondary segments or pinnules 

 are broader, and divided closedown upon the midrib. My specimen, 

 from Mr. Hambrough, as is usually the case in the variety called P. 

 cambricum by Linneus, is destitute of fructification. 



[Polypodium Bryopteris.] When visiting, this summer, the beau- 

 tiful gardens and collection of choice exotics at Leigh Park, the seat 



* Cothey ground ; wet, boggy or springy ground in Harapsliirc vernacular. 



