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donium (great celandine) is very plentiful near Newchurch, 

 where I gathered Vicia angustifolia again, and in a hedge- 

 bank Fedia olitoria (lamb's lettuce). On Ashey Down 

 the Festuca is not so fine-leaved as on Wroxall, Ninham, 

 Royal Heath, and Pan." 



This summer Mr. Newbould visited him. They botanized 

 together round Bembridge, and Mr. Newbould added a new 

 species, Papaver lecoqii, to the catalogue of Isle of Wight 

 plants. This poppy had not until now been discriminated 

 by British botanists from the better known form of P. 

 dubium, and it was Mr. Newbould who first drew attention 

 to its occurrence in England. A close student of the 

 French botanists, and (in his friend's phrase) " a real Bad 

 of a splitter/' Mr. Newbould had set his heart on getting 

 More to take up " critical species " as hotly as himself; and 

 at parting presented him with .the new (3rd) edition of 

 Boreau's " Flore du Centre de la France " a gift curiously 

 inscribed " From his much obliged W. W. N." The pre- 

 sent and the persuasions which accompanied it had all 

 the effect desired ; but it was not till the season of 1858 was 

 over that time could be found for other botanical work than 

 the cataloguing of the island's Flora. 



That sedge with the somewhat unconscionably long 

 name, Carex Boenninghauseniana, was the cause of some 

 of his most arduous hunts. He found it at Newchurch, 

 while searching there for C. axillaris. But the main object 

 was to discover Boenninghauseniana at Quarr Copse, since 

 that was the locality for which Dr. Bromfield had recorded 

 it eight years before his death. The week after finding it 

 at Newchurch, a day devoted to a final exploration of 

 Quarr is chronicled as follows : 



" Quarr Copse. June 30. To try for the third time for 

 Carex Boenninghauseniana. Walking quickly to Binstead 

 I first secured C. axillaris growing in the hedge close to 

 the new quarry. It was in very fine condition, stems about 

 a yard high, accompanied by C. remota and C. divulsa. 

 Pyrus torminalis (service-tree) was in young fruit as if 

 three weeks past flower. I followed the path to nearly 

 the Abbey wall, and then turned down to the right by 



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