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 172 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES.

XEuphorbla plafyphylla, L. Cornfields near the windmill at Bembridge and on Bembridge Down ; at Carpenter's, near St. Helen's ; cornfields above Steepliill ; at Hampstead, Sliallleet (Dr. G. R. Tate). Alverstone, Whippinghani (J. Pristo).

E. Paralias, L. One plant on the sandy shore of Gurnet Bay, 1868 (J. Pristo), probably sprung from seed carried by sea from Hayling Island. Still flourishes on St. Helen's Spit and at Norton, where it was planted by Dr. Bromfield.

Urtica dioica, L., xax.angnstifoUa. Lower Hide Farm, near Shanklin! (Rev. T. Salvvey).

XUlmus. I do not think either species of Elm is indigenous in the Isle of Wight. Trees so commonly planted, whose roots run so far, and whose seed is so easily scattered, require stronger evidence in their favour than I have yet seen ; and there are in the Isle of Wight scarcely any upland copses where the Elm might be exjiected to occur as native.

XSallx triandra, L. Redhill Farm, Appuldurcombe (Herb. Bromfield). The specimen is from a female plant, and is marked as doubtfully native.

XS. fragil'm, L. Marshcombe Copse, Yaverland ; near Yar Bridge ; near Kerne Farm ; Lower Knighton, etc., but not in any locality where it can be considered native.

-S". acnvibiata, Sm. The Willow from Northwood Park, preserved under this name in Dr. Bi'orafield's herbarium, is referred by Professor Babington and Mr. J. G. Baker to S. Stnithiana, Willd., var. rugom, but 1 have gathered in Marshcombe Copse a plant which exactly corresponds with the figure of -S*. acuminata in ' English Botany,' and this seems to be a hybrid between S. caprcea and S. viminalis.

Obs. S. laurina, Flor. Vect. Some imperfect specimens from Barns- ley Farm, preserved under this name in Dr. Bromfield's herbarium, belong to S. cinerea, L., and it is to be feared that the Sallx noticed near New- town by Mr. Borrer was the same, or, if correctly named, it must have been planted. S. acutifolia, S. creru^ea, S. vitellbia, S. triandra, etc., are cultivated in the Willow beds, but the only species which appear certainly indigenous are S. repens, S. aurita, S. cinerea, and S. caprcea.

XJimiperus communis, L. I have only seen the single bush which grows on the down above Nunwell, and on it I found several well-formed and fertile-looking berries in April, 1860,

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��SHOET NOTES AND QUERIES.

Plants of Staffordshire. — In reply to the Rev. W^ A. Leighton (see p. 112), I am able to state that Cannock Chase is abont 760 feet above the sea level, and Sutton about 450 feet. The flora of Sutton Common is more boreal than alpine, I think, containing an abundance of Ulex europfEus, Calluna vulgaris, Erica cinerea, E. Tetralix, with here and there scattered tufts of Triodia decumbens and Molinia ccerulea. I also find Parnassia palustris and Jasione montana, but never abundant here. The flora of Cannock Chase is much the same as that of Sutton. — J. Bagnall.

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