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ground, and like Centaurea Cyanus, its usual companion, wearing the 

 colours of a warmer clime. 



Spergula subulata, and Hypochceris glabra, both rare with us, have 

 been observed in the corn-fields near Shanklin. Elsewhere these two 

 plants are more often found to inhabit sandy heaths. Linum angusti- 

 folium occurs both in arable and pasture land. 



Carex pendula will hardly escape notice in the Chine, or in any of the 

 damp woods; this is the largest, and with C. Pseudo-Cyperus, the 

 handsomest of our sedges, and remarkably abundant everywhere near 

 Shanklin. 



" Cowfiit Cliff" (the wood under the footpath leading to Cook's 

 Castle) yields Lamium Galeobdolon in profusion, Lactuca muralis, and 

 a few other common sylvan species. It is here that the Beech will be 

 seen growing in one of its wildest stations, and the old gnarled trees of 

 the White Beam that line the crest of the cliff are seldom observed to 

 greater advantage. Great Wood or Shanklin Copse, is also well worth 

 a visit. Returning towards the banks of the Main River ; near Yar 

 Bridge are two boggy thickets where Carex Pseudo-Cyperus will be 

 found fringing the ditches which surround them ; Lemna polyrrhiza, 

 Bidens cernua, and B. tripartita, Sparganium simplex, Lycopus Euro- 

 paeus grow in the water ; and on the outskirts of the copse, Arctium 

 majus is plentiful. 



Pan and Lake Commons lie close at the back of Sandown, conter- 

 minous with Bordwood Forest. The staple grass here is Agrostis 

 setacea which grows intermixed with Festuca tenuifolia, but the former 

 has a glaucous tinge which easily distinguishes the foliage. 



Heath, Furze, Foxglove, and Galium saxatile, proclaim that we 

 have reached the heath country. Jasione montana abounds on every 

 bank, with it the elegant climbing Fumitory (Corydalis). In the wetter 

 spots, and where the spongy moss scarcely affords a footing, grow 

 Narthecium Ossifragum, Drosera rotundifolia, Rhynchospora alba,, 

 Eriophorum, Eleocharis, Hypericum Elodes, Myrica, Viola palustris, 

 and a search in the ditches will afford Epilobium obscurum and E. 

 palustre. E. angustifolium grows close by, in a boggy thicket, Lysi- 

 machia vulgaris, another handsome plant, is also found here, and the 

 rare Carex laevigata. Ranunculus coenosus, Malachium aquaticum,. 

 and Valeriana sambucifolia, are other interesting plants ; nor must 

 Polygonum minus be forgotten that abounds in the small cross drains 

 of the adjoining meadows, and is easily recognised by its bright rose- 

 coloured flowers. 



On the higher part of the common, the Columbine (Aquilegia) has 

 been found among the Furze, and Radiola grows in the bare sandy 

 parts of the road itself. Rubus plicatus and other Rubi along the ditch 

 of the north-west side. 



Alverstone is one of the chief stations for the Marsh Fern, Lastraea 

 Thelypteris, which grows a little way above the mill, and also in the 

 4 ' Lynch." Osmunda is abundant hereabouts. Myosotis palustris 

 (scarce in the Isle of Wight), Scutellaria galericulata, both species of 



