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the ditch near the well in Holshot Lane/' the Royal 

 osmunda fern grew, and the little adderVtongue in 

 the meadow beyond. In " Danemoor Wood " he 

 notes the buckthorn; and in the " Mead " adjoining, 

 the devil's-bit scabious and the early purple orchis. 

 Figwort grew by Holshot Bridge ; and the white 

 water-lily, "very plentifully in Holshot River in 

 Hampshire, my native soil, all along the river by 

 Danmore Mead." One most interesting plant, first 

 recorded by Turner as a Hampshire species, he found 

 some twenty miles from Holshot. " I have seen," he 

 says, " the Dwale or Deadly nightshade growing in a 

 ditch by the highway side near Alton, in Hampshire." 

 After the death of Mr. John Goodyer in 1652, and 

 the publication of Turner's Botanologia in 1664, a 

 long period of comparative silence falls on the story 

 of Hampshire botany. We meet, it is true, with 

 notices of Hampshire localities and species in the 

 writings of Merrett and of John Ray, but these 

 statements are mostly dependent on the discoveries 

 of de 1'Obel and Goodyer. In the year 1778, however, 

 we meet with the famous letter of Gilbert White to 

 Daines Barrington, in which he gives what he calls 

 a " short list of the more rare plants of Selborne 

 and the spots where they are to be found " a list 

 which has already been considered in a separate 

 paper. One more authority belonging to the eigh- 

 teenth century must be mentioned. In the Annual 

 Hampshire Repository for 1799, there appeared what 

 the writer calls "the commencement only of a Hamp- 

 shire flora, confined at present to some of the rarer 

 plants, hereafter to be continued, and to be finally 

 extended to a complete flora Hantoniensis." This 

 paper, which was published anonymously, proved to 



