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as wide -is the slieatlis of the leaves. This therefore is not quite the Flcaria u. vimbeus of foreign writers, though I believe it the var. incum- bens of Lyme's ' English Botany.'
R. acris, L., var. R. Borminiis, Jord. Our Isle of Wight plant appears to bebng exclusively to the form " R. tomophyllus," of Jordan ('Diag- noses,' p. 71), differing from typical R. Boraauus in having the base of the stem and the petioles of the radical leaves clothed with spreading yellow hairs. I have not met with R. vulgatus, Jord.
R. hirsutns, Curt, Frequent in damp meadows, especially near the sea ; occurs also on village greens, as at Nettlestone. By no means ex- clusively agrestal in the Isle of Wight.
Galtha j^ulustris, L. So far as I know, only the variety " vulgaris " occurs.
- Hellebo7'as vlridis, L. A large patch in Woodhouse Copse, near Al-
verstone (J. Pristo) ; the remains, I fear, of former cidtivation.
XHellcboriis fcetidus, L. Probably not indigenous at St. Lawrence, where I have only seen it in and near to what was formerly a shrubbery or pleasure ground, and which, though now sufficiently wild in appear- ance, still produces the cut-leaved Elder and a foreign species of Hyperi- cum. Mr. Stratton has observed one or two plants in a still more suspicious station, in a hazel copse close to the orchard at Apes Down Farm.
Aquilef/ia vulgaris, L. In a Avood south-west of Colwell ; and by the side of the Yar, one mile south of Yarmouth, sparingly in both places, but truly wild (J. G. Baker). Formerly at Alverstone, on land that had been cultivated many years ago (J. Pristo).
^Delphinium Jjacis, L. The two specimens of " D. Consolida^ men- tioned in ' Flora Aectensis ' as gathered by Mr. Hambrough and Miss Kirkpatrick, both have a pubescent capsule ; but the plant has no claim to be considered established in our cornfields.]
- Berberis vulgaris, L. A few bushes in a hedge between Furzy
Goldens and More Green, Freshwater (H. C. Watson). Probably planted here, as in the other localities given in ' Flora Vectensis.'
%Papaver duhium [Lamottei, Bor.). .Sandy cornfields above Bed Cliff, Sandown Bay ; in corn near Newchurch ; chalk-pit, south-east of Caris- brook Castle. By no means common.
%F. Lecoquii, Lamotte. Cultivated fields above the landslip at Luc- combe (Rev. W. W. Newbould, 1858). A single plant in a sandy turnip- field at Bembridge. On a heap of chalky rubbish by the roadside between Lake and Shanklin. Frequent in garden ground at Ventnor and Bon- chm'ch. Near Gatcombe and Carisbrooke (F. Stratton). P. Lecoquii shows a decided preference for a calcareous soil, as P. Lamottei does for sand. . Both plants are very local or scarce.
XPapaver Rliceas, var. slrigosmn, Bonninghausen. Near Yaverland ; near Tyne House, Bembridge ; at Kerne, Ashey, and Nunwell ; but in all stations sparingly, This is not an ambiguous or intermediate form, but simply P. Rho;as with adpressed hairs.
■\Famaria paUidiJhra, Jord. In hedges and on rough bushy banks about Bouchurch aud Ventnor, but in no great abundance (1861). In a hedge at Brightstonc, where Mr. Stratton also has gathered it. Mr. Stratton has kindly shown me the specimens he named F. Borcei (' Jour- nal of Botany,' Vll. p. 315). I cannot see how they difl'er, except in
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