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VINCA MAJOB, L. Greater Periwinkle. P. 7-8. Hedges 

 and road sides ; naturalized occas. as escapes, but scarcely 

 wild. 



V. MINOR, L. Lesser Periwinkle. P. 3-10. Woods and 

 hedgebanks; not uncom., doubtless often wild westward. 

 I. Stansted Woods. Nr. Aldsworth abund. Hedges about 

 Racton freq. Lordington Wood abund. East Harden, 

 Hb. T. Valdoe Copse, F.V.P. Bosham, J.G.H. Coates, 

 abund. II. Horsham. Rusper, G.B.H. III. Nr. 

 Brighton, M. IV. Woods about Haywards Heath, Bev. 

 T. E. Crallan. Sheffield Park, M.B.I). Nr. Ringmer 

 Green, scarcely wild, U. V. Park Wood, nr. Carter's 

 Corner, rare, B. VI. Nr. Hastings, B. VII. Not uncom. 

 in the Weald, E.J. Eridge Green, A. W. Clarke. 



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ERYTHR^EA CENTAURIUM, Pers. Common Centaury. 

 A. 6-8. Downs and woods ; com. in all the dictricts. 

 Var. CAPITATA, Koch. A stunted form with large flowers. 

 "On Beachy Head, on the Cliffs bet. Newhaven and 

 Rottingdean, and on the Downs a little S. of the Devil's 

 Dyke," Bot. Sus. 



Note. Townsend says that this var. is produced by 

 exposure, as well as by the plant being often bitten 

 down by sheep and rabbits. 



E. PULCHELLA, Fries. Slender Centaury. A. 7-8. 

 Downs, woods, and roadsides, also on banks along the 

 coast ; not uncom. Not reported from VI. I. Bosham, 

 Hb. C. By the shore nr. Pnnsted. Fishbourne, abund., A. 

 Pagham, E.S.M. II. Littlehampton, A. Ferring, Hb. D. 

 III. Cliffs on the road to Rottingdean, M. IV. Nr. Lewes, 

 U. V. Mill Wood, Bexhill. Wilmington Wood. East- 

 bourne, on the coast, com., B. VII. About Tunbridge 

 Wells, not com., E.J. 



E. CAPITATA, Wild. Round-headed Centaury. A. or B. 

 7-8. Chalk downs; very rare. 



Var. SPH^ROCEPHALA, Towns. IV. Downs at Newhaven, 

 Journ. Bot., 1879. Downs above Alciston, 1880, B. 

 Rottingdean, 1894, T.H. V. Downs above Beachy 

 Head, 1880, B. Downs at Eastbourne, Townsend. 

 Note. This plant is not known to occur anywhere else 

 in the world but in the Isle of Wight and in Sussex, 

 Townsend) Flora of Hants. 



CICENDIA FILIFORMIS, Delarb. Slender Cicendia. A. 

 7-8. Wet sandy ground; very rare. II. St. Leonard's 

 Forest, G.B.H. IV. Slaugham Park, Bor. MSS. VII. 

 Bog in Tilgate Forest, nr. Pease Pottage Gate, in pro- 

 fusion, 1843, Hanson. 



