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On the other side, the wood below Cook's Castle produces Epilobium 

 angustifolium, Prunus Padus (introduced). Hypericum dubium has 

 been gathered between Languard and Ninham, the only locality known 

 or it in the island. 



Godshill and its vicinity afford many of our rarest and most local 

 plants. 



In Appuldurcombe Wood Aquilegia vulgaris and Androsaemum 

 officinale, Rosa tomentosa and R. spinosissima grow in several of the 

 hedges ; Cotyledon Umbilicus by the roadside near Kennerley Heath. 

 Tanacetum on many of the high sandy banks of the deep cut lanes, 

 its most natural station as a wild plant. Veronica Buxbaumii and 

 Anthemis arvensis occur near Sandford; Datura Stramonium at the 

 north-east end of the village. There is a good piece of boggy ground 

 called Munsley (a few hundred yards north of the church), where 

 Myrica Gale, Narthecium, Scirpus fluitans, Genista anglica, &c., will 

 be gathered. Still more productive as a botanical locality is 



Bleak Down, where, on the higher parts are found Sagina subulata, 

 Carex binervis, Juncus squarrosus, Polygala depressa, and near the 

 road Viola canina (flavicornis), Moenchia erecta, Hypericum humi- 

 fusum, Plantago Coronopus. At the south-west base, by Lashmere 

 Pond, Scirpus setaceus, Centunculus minimus, Wahlenbergia heder- 

 acea, Radiola, Nardus stricta, and in the pond itself Helosciadium 

 inundatum, Myriophyllum alterniflorum, Sparganium simplex, &c. 

 Under the western slope lies the 



Rookley Wilderness, renowned as the best locality for bog plants 

 in the island. Here are great thickets of Salix aurita, and Myrica so 

 tall as to resemble Arbutus, and under their shade grow Lastraea 

 Thelypteris, and L. spinosa, Oxycoccos palustris, &c. Viola palustris, 

 Veronica scutellata, Epilobium angustifolium, Carex curta, C. ampul- 

 lacea, Ranunculus ccenosus, Scutellaria galericulata, Narthecium, 

 Eriophorum, Hypericum Elodes, will be found in various parts of the 

 marsh ; and in the spongy meadows abutting on the stream Wahlen- 

 bergia, Anagallis tenella, Nardus stricta, Genista anglica, Juncus 

 squarrosus, Botrychium Lunaria, Ophioglossum vulgatum, and many 

 other species partial to a moorish soil. Arctium majus has also been 

 gathered here. 



Blackgang produces Juncus obtusiflorus, Jasione montana, Juncus 

 squarrosus, Scirpus Savii ; and near St. Catherine's Lighthouse, Sam- 

 bucus Ebulus, Sclerochloa loliacea, and, if not extinct, Trifolium 

 glomeratum. Cynoglossum officinale is very conspicuous along the 

 road-side towards Niton. 



Kingstone is the perfection of a sandy heath, covered as it is with a 

 dense growth of Agrostis setacea (the bristle bent) which produces the 

 most slender leaves of all the British grasses. Tanacetum is here 

 again at home upon the road-side banks. Filago minima and others 

 abound in the loose soil, and with them Antirrhinum Orontium, Filago 

 spathulata, Silene anglica ; and in the neighbouring cornfields the 

 golden Ox-eye, azure Knapweed, and gorgeous Poppies display their 



