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the Sea Cabbage. In reproductive capabilities, the domestic or 

 horticultural or agrarial plant is just as perfect as its maritime 

 relation. This does not affect the question about the origin of 

 the plant, which appears to have been known as a cultivated vege- 

 table more than twenty centuries ago. It is very probable that 

 we are indebted to the Homans for its introduction among us. 

 There are no very conclusive reasons for admitting the Sea Cab- 

 bage as aught but a naturalized species. It may be placed in the 

 same category of vegetable citizenship as the Tree Mallow and 

 the Sea Stock. Both the latter are naturalized on cliffs border- 

 ing the ocean. All three are extensively cultivated, and it is not 

 a very improbable opinion that they have all been, in process of 

 time, established by various artificial or natural agencies. Several 

 reputed British plants are escapes from cultivation, of which only 

 a few need here be mentioned to prove that it is not incredible 

 that the Sea Cabbage may be one. There is no specific difference 

 between the large-petaled and deep-coloured Wallflowers of the 

 garden and the small yellow-flowered variety of the old ruins of 

 castles and of rocks contiguous to such buildings. The Clove 

 Pinks and Picotees are probably of the same species as the Wild 

 Carnations and Pinks of our old abbeys and mouldering walls. 

 These analogies and assumptions are not offered with the view of 

 supporting any one of the three opinions recently broached in the 

 ' Phytologist/ but with a wish that those who have the means, 

 i. e. who live near the sea, where the Sea Cabbage grows, would 

 examine the wild plant, comparing it with the cultivated varie- 

 ties, and report through that which is the medium of this com- 

 munication. Veritatis Amans. 



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The road from Newport to Freshwater, about ten miles long, 

 is through Carisbrooke and Calbourne, by an open country, and 

 partly over the downs. The views from many points are beau- 

 tiful, and from all extensive. After crossing the western part 

 of Apes down, about two miles from Carisbrooke, there is an 

 exquisitely charming locality, a sequestered nook which con- 

 tains every element of a strictly lovely scene : situation, verdure, 



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