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had been kindly furnished us by ray friend, Jas. A. Brewer, of Rei- 

 gate, who found it there, in plenty, last year. We could not detect 

 anything peculiar in the place, and its accompaniments, that should 

 have induced the plant to select it for its habitat. Myrica Gale, 

 Rhynchospora alba, Potamogeton plantagineus, Drosera rotundifolia 

 and D. intermedia, Lycopodium inundatum (particularly fine), and 

 other more common bog plants were in abundance. One or two small 

 tufts of Osmunda regalis in the centre looked stunted and unhappy. 

 We did not observe this fern anywhere else. Lastrea Oreopteris 

 seemed also to be remarkably scarce ; as far as we noticed, it was 

 confined to a damp ditch bounding one of the plantations ; and I am 

 not aware that we saw a single individual of the multiflora group. 

 Proceeding onwards as far as the Christchurch-road Station, a bog 

 near it, on the north side of the railway, yielded the pretty and rare 

 Cicendia filiformis. Here we ventured to forsake the roads, and 

 struck right across, through forest, over heath and bog, towards 

 Stoney-cross, finding it a fine, but fatiguing, walk ; and, with the sun 

 for a guide, and inquiring, where we had the chance, which was but 

 seldom, kept our direction pretty well. On both sides of the road, 

 before coming to the little inn at Stoney-cross, as accurately described 

 in Dr. Bromfield's Hampshire Flora, familiar to the readers of the 

 * Phytologist,' we found the minute Tillaea muscosa, in abundance. 

 A pretty walk of three miles led us back to Lyndhurst, well satisfied 

 with our day's work. There are but few districts affording three 

 plants equal to the Leersia, Isnardia, and Spiranthes within the com- 

 pass of an early morning's walk. 



Our time being now exhausted, we left the Forest the next morn- 

 ing, by the Southampton road, as far as Redbridge, thence to the old 

 town of Romsey, up the valley of the river Test, notorious for its 

 trout, meeting with little worth mentioning, except two plants of Hy- 

 oscyamus niger, occupying its usual position, on a bit of waste turf by 

 the road-side. Hippuris vulgaris, Sagittaria sagittifolia, and Rumex 

 Hydrolapathum occur almost wherever there is water in the marshy 

 valleys which intersect this part of the county, and Geum rivale in 

 several places along the canal that runs by Romsey. 



The following are additional localities to those given in Dr. Brom- 

 field's Flora, for some of the more interesting Hampshire plants 

 observed during the past year : — 



Cerastium arvense. Abundant on chalky road-sides on Queenwood- 

 College Farm, near Stockbridge. 



