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 204; A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'FLORA VECTENSIS.'

nounce it indigenous. The absence of white veins has been noticed by French as well as English writers.

Sparc/anium miHimum, Fries. This is the only form of S. nutans found in the Isle of Wight, where it is confined to the small pools near Cran- more Farm. The long floating leaves which abound in the Medina and East Yar belong to S. tsimplex, Huds., and I have once or twice found it flowering in the Yar.

Lemna gibba, L. In several ditches on the north side of Brading Harbour, and near Brading Quay.

"^ Potamogeton planfagineiis, Ducr. Peaty pools in the marsh at Easton, Freshwater (A. J. Hambrongh, 1859). "in the Wdderness at Rookley (F. Townsend). Requires confirmation.

P. pect'matus, L., var. scoparius, Wallr. Marsh ditches near the sea, at Brading and at Yarmouth. I have not succeeded in finding P. fla- bellafus, Bab., though in the appendix to Mr. Venables' ' Guide Book ' the name was misapplied to this variety scoparius.

Obs. p. lucens, L., is not now to be found in Sandown Marshes, and it is believed that some other species was mistaken for it.

Ruppia rosfellata, Koch. This is the only form of Rappia which I have identified, but the shape of its fruit varies considerably. On the same plant the earlier fruits are scarcely at all oblique, while those pro- duced later on the upper branches of the same plant are much curved and deeply notched.

Zostera nana, Roth. Wootton Bridge (Bronif. in Phyt.). Freshwater Creek (A. G. M.). Z. angiistifulia is common, but scarcely deserves to rank as a variety of Z. marina.

EleocJuiris midticaiiUs, Sin. In some small pools on heathy ground at Lynn gravel pits. With S. pauclflorus on St. Helen's Green.

Scirpus pancijiorus, Lightf. On the east bank of the Yar, between Freshwater and Yarmouth (J. G. Baker).

S. jluilans, L. Staplers (F. Stratton). At the W^ilderness (F. Towns- end, who informs me that this is the plant recorded doubtfully in ' Flora Vectensis ' as Carex dioica).

Obs. Eriophorum vaginalum, L., must be excluded, (Sec ' Phytolo- gist,' iii. p. 1032.)

Carex paniculata, L. The foi'm with narrow unbranched panicle occurs on Lake Common, and in the Parsonage Lynch, Newchurch.

C. teretiuscida, Good. Sparingly in the wettest part of Easton Marsh, Freshwater (1862). In the Wilderness at Rookley ! (F. Stratton, 1870).

C. axillaris, Good. In the hollow at north-east corner of Quarr Copse. Both this locality and the description given of C. Bonni iigha nseniana by Dr. Bromfield belong really to C. axillaris. Good., which occurs also in the ditch under the boundary fence near Binstead. In a hedge-bank by Middleton Lane, Freshwater (A. G. M.)., and in Saltern's Copse, near Norton, Freshwater (Herb. Bromf.)

C. Bbnningliauseniana, Weihe. Parsonage Lynch, Newchurch, in tolerable plenty (1858). This is the only locality known in the Isle of Wight, and C. axillaris does not grow here. I have not succeeded in finding any ripe fruit upon C. BdniiingJiauseniana ; and as both at New- churcli and near Tunbridge Wells I have found it growing in company with C. remota and C. panicnlaiu, I think the suggestion that it is a hybrid is probably correct.

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