THE ELORA OF HAMPSHIRE. 
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which it took its name had been printed instead of the number. 
Numbers 4 and 5 N. and S. Wight are thus distinguished. The old 
authors from Turner downwards, have been thoroughly searched, and 
Mr. Townsend has followed the example set in the admirable Flora of 
Middlesex in putting the name of the first recorder to each plant. 
But the special feature in the Flora is the attention given to critical 
species and varieties. 
Of these we may specify Lepidium SmitJiii var. alatostyla, a variety 
without the notched fruits of typical Smithii. Sileiie anylica is made 
a species, as is also S. yalUca, the latter divided into eugallica and 
quinquevulnera. 
Mr. Townsend remarks under Cerastium tetrandrum that, contrary to 
the opinion of Dr. Bromfield and other botanists who had charac¬ 
terised it as a seaside form of C. semidecandrum, he has always 
found the plants, even when growing together, retain their individual 
characters perfectly. The writer this year noticed on the sands of 
Barrie some specimens which it was difficult to confidently assign to 
semidecandrum, bearing as they did such a resemblance to the former 
plant. 
Arenaria serpyllifolia is divided into four varieties— splmrocarpa, 
glutinosa, stricta, and leptoclados. 
Herniaria hirsuta, first recorded for Hants by Mr. Townsend, is, the 
author states, a possible native. 
Trifolium arvense has a maritime variety described. 
Prunus spiiiosa is divided into P. spinosa (Linn.) and P. fruticans 
(Weihe), the latter perhaps the cooctana of Syme. P. fruticans is between 
spinosa and insititia. Under the latter name it doubtless exists in 
many herbaria. 
Poterium muricatum seems pretty generally distributed. The writer 
noticed it this year on the railway banks between Lyndhurst and 
Brockenhurst, in the New Forest district. 
Alchemilla vulgaris is singularly absent from the New Forest, as is 
also Parnassia palustris. 
Of the Bubi thirty-seven species are enumerated. 
There is no notice of a new (?) species of Lythrum, said to have been 
found in St. Crossfields, Winchester, by Father Reader. 
Isnardia palustris, first recorded in “ Merrett’s Pinax,” 1667, after¬ 
wards lost, has been restored to Hampshire by the pertinacious search 
of Mr. Bolton King, whose name frequently occurs in the Flora. 
The small densely-tufted maritime form of Jasione is identified 
with J. littoralis. Fries. 
The Erythrsea are most fully treated, descriptions being given of 
E. capitala (Koch), E. toiuijiora (Link.) E., capitata (Wild), var. sphcero- 
cephala (Towns.), with plate. 
The spring flowering form of Gentiaua Arnarclla is also noticed. 
Under Li )uiria repens is ^noticed that Dr. Bromfield found a pure 
white unstriped variety. The writer has noticed not only that, but a 
