On the bench in Sandown Bay, and also on the shore at Shanklin, I have found stunted plants of L. sylvestris, which may have led to the error.
- r1 Onobrychis sativa, Lam. In no locality where it can be considered
indisputably native. The banks and slopes on which it occurs are always adjacent to cultivated land, or have themselves in many cases been ploughed. On Bembridge Down close to tilled ground. Above a chalk-pit on Arreton Down, but close to a cultivated field. On Afton Down and Buccombe Down, the relics of cultivation (R. Tucker).
- r2 Pninns domestica (Flora Vectensis). From its round fruit and
thorny branches is, I believe, the same as the P. imiiitia of the French Floras, and most authors ; while Dr Bromfield's " P. insititla" is in great part the P. fniticaiis of Grenier and Godron, Boreau, etc. Both look as if planted originally in the hedges where they usually occur.
- Poterium miinratnm, Spach. Only in and near to cultivated fields ;
plentifully in a field of sown grass at Bembridge in 1S58. A few plants by the roadside on Ashey Down, and plentiful in an adjacent cultivated field, 1858 ; near Steephill (Mr. Hambrough). In a field of sown grass above Great Wood, Shanklin.
Agrimonia oJornta, IVIdl. In thickets and under hedges, rare. About Niton (Mr. W. Mathews, 1855, ' Phytologist,' N.s. vol. i. p. 191). A few plants in Marshcombe Copse, Yaverland ; in Bordwood Copse ; hedge south of Briddlesford Heath. Hedge near Merry Gardens (Rev. 11. H". Crewe). !Near Merston (F. Stratton).
lAlchemilla vulgaris, Linn. A single patch was found (1849) by Dr. Bell Salter in the grounds of Tyne Hall, Bembridge, where it had been no doubt introduced.]
KuBUs. Mr. J. G. Baker, during a short visit which he paid to the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1868, made a collection of all the forms which he saw, amounting to about fifty, and has kindly favoured me with the following notes : —
Rnbus siiberectm, Anders. Seen only once, but very characteristic as regards prickles, etc., in the Tinker's Dell, in Apse woods.
R. plicatus, W. et N. Plentiful in the marsh at Freshwater gate, and gathered also on Ningwood Common.
R. rliarnnifolim, W. et N. Several forms which Babington would include here. Bloxam's typical rhnDuiifolius, with a small, long-stalked, finely-toothed, terminal leaflet, scarcely cordate at the base, in hedges, at Stapler's Heath, near Newport ; a larger, more cordate-leaved form, with the inflorescence scarcely more than racemose, near the same place ; a form quite agreeing with the common north country plant, which Bloxam and Warren call affinis, on Col well Heath ; and a plant with cordate leaves a good deal felted beneath, at Ningwood Common.
R. Lindleianus, Lees. Satisfactory and typical, in the Tinker's Hole, at Apse, and at Stapler's Heath, near Newport.
R. coryUfoUns, Sm. Next to dmolor, apparently the commonest Bram- ble everywhere through the island.
R. Balfoirrianus, Blox. I saw a plant which Babington places here in a hedge at Brading, and again in two or three places along the Underclift", west of Ventnor. This is not exactly Bloxam's original Balfourianvs, and diff"ers from corylifolins, principally by the sepals adpressed to the fruit. Genevier labels it " degeiier."
R. discolor, W. et N. By far the commonest Bramble through the
