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Isle of Wight, only from one to two inches high (see PL II. 
f. 8) [The 2nd plate in the 5th Edition comprises details of 
the inflorescence of grasses only] when it can scarcely he 
said to have a stem ; hears only one or two flowers, with 
four stamens and frequently hut two summits. In the 
summer of 1795 Mr. Watt brought me a series of specimens 
from the Isle of Wight, from one to ten inches high, and 
soon afterwards Mr. Turner informed me that on barren 
limestone hills in Norfolk it grows equally diminutive; 
though the blossom, as he observes, is as large as in the 
largest specimens, which he has sometimes seen above two 
feet high.” He also mentions amongst the localities from 
which he has specimens : — “ Close to Stonehenge, on Salis- 
bury plain, very diminutive. Mr. Caley.” 
I am distributing, through the “ Botanical Exchange Club 
of the British Isles,” under the name of var. {3. nana, the 
few specimens of this dwarf form which I collected. It 
differs from the typical form only in its diminutive parts, 
dwarf habit, short slender stem, and heads of one to three 
flowers. The colour of the corolla is paler than that of the 
ordinary erect form. 
“ On the Isle of Wight station for Lychnothamnus alope- 
curoides, Braun,” by Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 
I also exhibit another interesting Isle of Wight plant, 
which had been thought to have become extinct, as it has 
not been reported to have been found for several years past, 
in the only British station where it is known to occur. 
This plant is the Lychnothamnus alopecuroides, Braun, one 
of the Charaeese, and was collected at Newtown, 14th July, 
1881. 
