508 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



Lithospermum officinale. 

 Verbascum Thapsus. 



nigrum. 



Orobanche Picridis. 

 Lathraea Squamaria. 

 Origanum vulgare. 

 Calamintha officinalis. 



sylvatica. 



Clinopodium. 

 Nepeta Cataria. 

 Plantago media. 

 Thesium humifusum. 

 Parietaria officinalis. 

 Orchis ustulata 



And in the corn fields : 



Adonis autumnalis. 

 Papaver hybridum. 

 Sinapis alba. 

 Bupleurum rotundifolium. 

 Galium tricorne. 



Orchis pyramidalis. 

 Habenaria viridis. 

 Ophrys apifera. 



muscifera. 

 aranifera. 



Cephalanthera grandiflora. 

 Neottia Nidus-avis. 

 Kceleria cristata. 

 Poa compressa. 



rigida. 



Bromus erectus, U.* 

 Avena pratensis. 



pubescens. 

 Asplenium Ruta-muraria. 



Specularia hybrida. 

 Melampyrum arvense, U. 

 Calamintha Acinos. 

 Galeopsis Ladanum. 

 Linaria spuria. 



Such is a general outline of the vegetation of the chalk, and most of 

 the plants enumerated are too widely distributed to need any special 

 directions for finding them ; but the following localities will be found 

 most productive of the rarest kinds : 



Bembridge Down has the advantage of being favourably situated 

 for the descent into either Sandown Bay or Whitecliff Bay. Here grow 

 also Euphorbia portlandica, Brassica oleracea, and Daucus maritimus 

 already mentioned among the maritime Flora. Cerastium pumilum 

 occurs near the monument ; Artemisia Absinthium in the hedges ; 

 Marrubium vulgare and Carduus tenuiflorus near the edge of the cliff ; 

 Gentiana Amarella, Campanula glomerata, Thesium, Ophrys apifera in 

 profusion on the turf; and in the corn-fields on the south slope a blue 

 variety of Malva sylvestris, Poterium muricatum, Bupleurum rotundi- 

 folium, Papaver hybridum, &c. Towards Bembridge, Geranium colum- 

 binum and Galaeopsis Ladanum. 



Brading Down, above Nunwell, boasts of the single shrub of Juni- 

 per yet found in the Isle of Wight, and it, like the Yew its neighbour, 

 may have been planted. Lithospermum officinale, Torilis nodosa, and 

 Rumex pulcher will be found close to the lane leading from the village ; 

 and Verbascum Blattaria has become almost established not very far 

 from the cottage gardens where it is cultivated. Veronica Buxbaumii 

 is another conspicuous interloper quite a common weed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Brading. On the walls and roof of the church Sedum 

 dasyphyllum is plentiful. 



* Those plants which are followed by the capital letter U are peculiar to the 

 Undercliff; not having been yet found upon the Central Chalk. 



