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been better had I made more use of the copious notes with which 

 the Herbarium is provided, full copies of which are fortunately 

 readily available for reference in the British Museum set of his 

 plants. ^ That Dr. Welwitsch, after having endured such privations 

 as he did, should not have lived to himself make them effectual 

 is a matter for lasting regret; it is a satisfaction, however, 

 to know that his collections are being worked up by Mr. Hiern, 

 to whom the task is most appropriately entrusted. 





ON SOME ISLE OF WIGHT PLANTS. 



By the Eev. W. Moyle Kogeks. 



I spent a month of last spring— from May 18th to June ^th- 

 in the Isle of Wight ; one fortnight at Sandown, and the other at 

 Niton, a parish which includes a large portion of the Undercliff 

 between Ventnor and Black Gang Chine. I thus saw a good deal 

 of the later spring flowers of the eastern and south-eastern parts of 

 the island ; and Mr. Frederic Stratton having most kindly lent me 

 his copies of < Flora Vectensis ' and the « Supplement to Flora 

 \ectensis' (A. G. More), enriched with his own MS. notes, I was 

 the better able to judge of the comparative rarity of the plants I 

 met with. Hence the following brief notes will be found supple- 

 mental to what is contained in those works ; all the records being 

 of plants seen by me this year (except in the few cases where an 

 earlier date will be given) in the stations named. 



Papaver dubium, Linn., a. Lamottei, Bor. Along the railroad 

 east of Brading Station, in considerable quantity. Niton: in a 

 cornfield west of " Pan Lane," abundant ; and in the Undercliff, on 

 some recently slipped land east of the « Cripple Path," several 



few It ' qU ' LaU1, "k a tumi P- fiel d near Black Gang, a 



Ilaphanus maritimm, Sm. Between Sandown and Shanklin in 

 two places (one plant in one, and two in the other) at the base of 

 the sea-ciifi. Not before reported from any station east of Ventnor. 



Matthiola mccma, Br. Down the face of the sea-cliff by 

 bt. Catherine s Lighthouse ; several plants, one being in flower, 

 l^ooks quite established on the rocks, though probably a recent 

 " garden escape." J 



Alysstimmaritlmun, Lam. Sandown Bay, about quarter of a 

 mile west of the pier and a third of the way up the face of the cliff ; 

 several plants no doubt thrown out of a garden, but thriving and 

 likely to spread. & 



Thlaspi orrense, L. St. Helen's, in considerable quantity in 

 some rough broken ground a little to the west of the new embank- 

 ment which crosses to Bembridge. 



Lr^lium Draba, L. St. Helen's, all round the mill in great 

 quantity, and spreading a little along the shore. An alien, ol 

 course. 



