50 HAMPSHIRE BOTANY. 



Nidularium giganteum, Baker, ii. sp. — Leaves in a dense sessile 

 rosette ; dilated oblong base 4-5 ins. long by 8 ins. broad ; 

 lamina ensiform, 2-3 ft. long, 1-1+ in. broad at the middle, 



tapering gradually to an acute point, moderately firm in texture, 



not lepidote on either surface, the lower edge prickles close, 

 lanceolate, brown-black, T ' T in. long, the upper minute and distant. 

 Peduncle stout, stiffly erect, glabrous, 8-9 ins. long, bracteated by 

 several large erect lanceolate reduced leaves similar in texture 

 to those of the basal rosette. Flowers in a dense globose head 

 about 4 inches in diameter, which is overtopped by an outside 

 whorl of lanceolate spine-toothed coriaceous red-tinted bracts 

 5-6 ins. long; flower-bracts linear or linear-subulate, shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx including ovary 2 ins. long, glabrous, 

 like the rest of the plant ; sepals lanceolate, striated, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, acuminate, 1± in. long. Corolla seen only in an 

 undeveloped state, and its colour not known. — Rio Janeiro, 

 Glaziou, 11,692!— The Nidularia may be divided into two groups: 

 one with lorate obtuse leaves, like N. fulgms, the other with 

 ensiform leaves narrowed gradually to a point, as in N. sarmentosum 

 and Scheremctieivii. The present plant belongs to the second group, 

 and differs from the species already known by its peduncled 

 capitulum and very large calyx. 



The 



HAMPSHIRE BOTANY. 



By Frederick Townsend, M.A., F.L.S. 



+1 „ -em /. TT ° ,. ™ llv " iium i-uctterutis ior my wont uu 



the Flora of Hampshire, which I hope soon to publish :— 



A asturtium sylvestre, Br., and Nasturtium umphibium, Br. I have 



onlj , uncertain records of these as Hampshire plants. 



in +hT< t77 I'"""?.' Ll This is recorded b > r Mr - W. L. Notcutt, 

 FareW 7 \ f! ' aS "J"™ 8 "?* the Titchfield River," near 



ft Z t ™ f ^T? ? glVen ^ Mr ' F - L Wam ^ t0 whom 



l5 C i LfT mi T ated ' I 1 beheVe ' ^ the late Ml '- R. B. H. Hill, of 

 Basingstoke : the record is, " Crooked Billet, Hook." Hook is 



about six miles eastward of Basingstoke. 



occ^T^TTT' L - T T he late Mr - s P icei ' recorded m* as 



occuinng at Itchen Abbas ; so I am informed b V Mr F I Warner 



I H^mnshtT J SPC r en -- ? kn ° W 0f ™ o«ier n^iice ofTas 

 a Hampshire plant on the mainland 



recolded'tbis ZH^' *% The Messrs - Grove « ^ve already 

 t thetn oirtMir mng ft * N 7 to ^. «• of Wight. I gathered 



ttik StSrtSiJSi^w a ^ nCar YiL1 ^outh, in the Island: 

 tin, latter station is about four miles from the former one 



follot ''" H S L f ^ is -corded by <££££ 802, as 

 town* p.istnres g U If ltself< ' wlWe * Avers places as in the 



fnd Ha , L" I ttSTS ^ "\ m ^ l )laces in Barkshire 

 ana Uampslme, in their pastures and copses or low woods;" but 



