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 170 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ' FLOEA VECTENSIS.'

in cultivated gTOinul. — Var. pagounm, Reich. Bembridge, etc., frequent. Yar. viride, L. Sbanklin, Saudown, Bembridge, etc. Common.

\_C.j\c'i folium, Smitli. A specimen in Sir W. Hooker's herbarium at Kew is labelled Isle of Wight, but I have never met with the plant my- self.]

j-<7. 7irhicum, L., var. intermeduim, M. & K. At Hide Farm, near Shank- lin, I onre found a plant producing on one branch cymose clusters of flowers, accompanied by a leaf nearly entire, while the rest of the leaves were toothed, and flowers in panicles as usual.

fC. ruhnnn, L., var. psendo-bolryoides, Wats. The plant Avhich grows at Hardingshoot Pond belongs to this form, but Dr. Bromfield raised the typical C. rubriim from seeds taken from the dwarf decuml cut form, s( that I do not see how it can rank as a proper variety. I have seen the typical (J. riibrnm, L., only once at Bembridge.

SaUcornia herbacea, L, A very slender dwarf form, quite prostrate, and little branched, occurs near Newtown on ground from which the turf has been recently pared. The spikes are acute, but the internodes as in ordinary S. procumbens, Sm., so that it does not agree with S. appressa of Dumorlier, but nearly with S. pusilla of Mr. Joseph Woods. (Phyt., 0. s., iv. p. 309, 1851.)

S. radicam, Sm. VVootton Creek (A. G. M.). By the West Yar (Dr. G. R. Tate). Two forms of this occur on the shores of Brad- ing Harbour. On the harder mud grows a plant with a stout, central, woody root, often half an inch in diameter, round which spread the decum- bent lateral branches, which scarcely at all take root at the joints. This, I believe, represents S. fniticosn, L., and S. Urjnom of J. Woods, I.e. But in the soft, pulpy mud the branches take root in all directions, while the original stock decays as they advance, leaving an interwoven mass of slender roots cieeping in aU directions. This latter is the proper S. radi- cans of Smith. I was unable to see any difference between the seeds of these two forms, and I may remark that M. Duval Jouve, in his elaborate paper on the French Saliconiice, published in the Bulletin of Bot. Soc. ot France, vol. xv. p. 165 (1868), does not show any great difference be- tween the seeds of his tAvo species, S. sarmeniosa {radicans of Smith) and S.fruticosa. The observations of Lloyd in his ' Flore de I'Ouest,' p. 417, seem to agree very closely with my own experience, and I think that we may safely claim S. fndicosa, L., as an Isle of Wight plant.

Atriplex littoralis, L., var. marina, L. On the gravelly point at Bem- bridge. Bank of the Medina, near East Medina Milf (F. Stratton). Shore below Bouldner (Herb. Bromfield). A. littoralis, L., is frequent.

A. palidu, L., var. A. ayigiistifolia, Sm. Very common. — Var. ereda, Aug]., serrata, Syme. Near St. Helen's, Saudown, etc., frequent.

A. hastata, L., var. A. dMoidea, Bab. In garden ground at Bem- bridge, and, in its prostrate form, very common along the muddy endjank- ments of Brading Harbour, at Luccond^e, Bonchurch, Yarmouth, etc.

A. Smilhii, Syme; A.patula, Sm. Common.

A. Babingtonii, Woods. Plentiful on shingly and sandy beaches, and occurs also alung the tidal creeks. In salt marsh ground, I have noticed a form wdiich differs from the ordinary A. Babingtonii by the elongated shape of the fruit calyces, many of which are irregularly shaped.

A. arenaria. Woods ; A. laciniatn, Flor. Vect. St. Helen's Spit. Sandown Bay. Norton's Spit and Totland's Bay. Rather rare, but I

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