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thickets above Alverston Mill, and in Alverston Lynch, common. 

 Very plentiful and luxuriant in boggy meadows along the Medina, 

 near its source, at Cridmore, Rookley, &c., growing in fine tufts 

 along the ditch that skirts the Wilderness, on the Rookley side. 

 The moors, Brixton. About Godshill ; profusely in a large, swampy 

 wood, chiefly of sallows, close to the village, on the north-east, 

 called, I believe, Moor Withy-bed, and in great profusion on the 

 peat-bog just beyond Munsley Hill, about half a mile north of the 

 church (in large tufts), as well as in various places between Godshill 

 and Budbridge, on moist fences and ditch-banks. On Kingston 

 moors, between Kingston and Corve, &c. Moist hedges by Sibbecks, 

 near Niton. Boggy places near Westover, Calbourne Mill, &c., 

 occasionally. Marsh at Easton, Freshwater Gate, sparingly (now 

 perhaps destroyed). Not uufrequent on slipped land west of Black- 

 gang. Wet thicket at Wolverton, by Shorwell. In Sandown Bay 

 (on the slipped cliffs), sparingly. Miss Lucas and the Rev. G. E. 

 Smith !!! Frequent in many parts of mainland Hants. In boggy 

 ground near the Grange Farm, Alverstoke. Margins of the bog at 

 the entrance on Titchfield Common, on the town side of that immense 

 waste. Quite frequent in West Hants, in the New Forest and 

 adjoining hundreds. Bogs and damp heaths near Ringwood, in 

 some places observed of truly regal dimensions, such as I have never 

 seen surpassed, excepting in the west of Ireland, and hardly even 

 there. By the road-side from Ringwood to St. Leonard's, a little 

 before coming to the Malmesbuiy Arms, in plenty. Bisterne, Miss 

 G. E. Kilderbee. Parley Heath, Mr. J. Curtis in litt. and Brit. 

 Entom. XV. t. 704 (ex loco). Bere Forest, New Forest, Rev. Messrs. 

 Garnier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. Doubtless in a vast number 

 of other stations, as I have gathered it in several, not mentioned 

 above, myself Not remarked by me in North Hants, nor communi- 

 cated to me from thence by others, but the greater part of that section 

 of the county is on the cretaceous system, and I think the Osmunda, 

 like most of our other ferns, avoid the chalk. 



Botrychium Lunaria. In dr}', hilly meadows and pastures, and 

 on open, heathy ground, very rarely in rocky thickets and shady or 

 low and damp situations. In rocky, wooded ground under the cliff 

 at East End, by Luccorabe, a little beyond Rose-Cliff Cottage, as 

 you go by the pathway to Bonchurch, on the right-hand, in the 

 shadiest recesses, amongst dead leaves, June 12, 1841, in moderate 

 quantity. Gathered there since by myself, but the place is difficult 

 to find by strangers : the fern grows in narrow hollows between the 

 masses of rock overhung by the brushwood. Near Nunwell, Mr. 



