A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ' FLORA VECTENSIS.' 20?
Wi^ht, and I believe it is inucli less frequent than is gvnicrally supposed. It often o-rows in Beecli woods with Ilordenm sylvaticuia, Huds.
Spart'ma stricta, lloth. Mud banks at King's Quay (J. Pristo).
E'juiseluni palnstre, L., var. polydacldon. In the Wilderness below Appleford Earni, in some plenty, 18G0.
Ceterach officinartun, Willd. Wall of a cottage-garden near the wind- mill, Bembridge. Wall at Knowle Farm, found by Mr. Blake (F. Strat- ton). Walls nenr East Cowes (J. Pristo).
Polypodliim vulgare, L , var. serralum. Near Grove ; at Quarr Abbey ; and remarkably hue at Brighstone. In this variety the pinnai are deeply serrate and sometimes irregularly pinnatitid.
[P. Robertiannm, Hoffm. Was observed a few years ago quite esta- blished on a wall close to a greenhouse at Swainstou (J. Pristo). Also seen growing on one of the walls at Carisbrooke Castle (Rev. W. M. Frost).]
Polystlchum lohainm. Roth. Bank by W^oodhouse Copse and near Alverstone, Whlppinghara, single roots only (J. Pristo). Iledgebank opposite the Inn at Calbourue ! (Rev. E. Venables).
Ladrea Theli/pteris, Presl. Thicket, north of the stream below the bridge at Newchurch.
L. Oreopteris, Presl. Still grew sparingly by the stream-side at Apse Castle, and also near Guildford in 1862 and'lSGS.
L. Filix-mas, Presl, var. Borreri. Centurion's Copse, Bembridge. Wilderness at Rookley ; Fatting Park Copse (J. Pristo), etc., not unfre- quent. Also in Steyne Wood, a variety with pinnules deeply incised, yet retaining the ruddy scales on the stipes. Var. elongalum, Moore. Copse near the Harbour at Bembridge (figured in ' Nature-printed British. Ferns'), In Steyne Wood I have found some plants which seem inter- mediate between L. Filix-mas and L. spinulosa, and which I suspect may be hybrids.
L. spinnlom, Presl. Steyne W'ood and Centurion's Copse, etc., near Bembridge; Young-wood Copse; Pnrsonnge Lynch, Newchurch; and in the wilderness at Rookley, but far less common than L. dilafatn, which abounds in all our boggy thickets, and is frequent on damp hedgebanks.
yhpleniiiiii TricliomanHn, L. East Cowes I (Dr. A. Wallace). Norris Castle and on a bridge near Alverstone (J. Pristo). On tombs, in Caris- brooke churchyard (F. Stratton).
A. mariaatu, L. Blackgaug (the late Major Smith).
Botri/chiiim Lunaria, Sw. In the Wilderness at Rookley (A. J. Ham- b rough).
Lycopodiiim elavatum., L. On the top of St. Boniface Down above Bonchurch, discovered in 1860 by a gardener named Robert Symmans. It grows sparingly, in one place only, among the heath.
CJiara (Nilella) syncarpa, Thudl. Pool, near Gurnard Bay ! (F. Stratton).
C. (Lychiiolhamnnx) alopecuroides, Del. Found by mc in 1862, cover- ing the bottom of the shallow brine-pans at the west mouth of Newtown Creek, close to the boding-houses ; ancl again, in 1863, in the pits or reser- voirs on the east side of the Creek, close to the village of Newtown, growing in salt water from eight iuclies to two feet deep.
C. fcetida, A. Br., C. vnlyaris, L. ? Ditches, near Brading Harbour; Sandown Marshes ; Freshwater and Yarmouth, etc., the couHuoiu'st species in Isle of Witrht.
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