Brachypodium pinnatum occurs in a
disused chalk pit, it will be found
abundant on the Merrow Downs.
In this neighbourhood Mr. Mill
has recorded Fumaria parviflora and
Bupleurum rotundifolium the latter
I found one season abundantly in a
field of Wheat.
The Central or Great Division is
that which is occupied by the cultivat-
ed portions of the the Shanklin Sand, in
which will be found the following rare
or local plants. Smyrynium Olusatrum
by the side of Shalford road, opposite the
park paling. Dianthus plumarious, in
the greatest profusion on an old wall
in Shalford street, and on the wall of
Westbrook Park. (Godalming) Saponaria of
ficinalis in a hedge bank near St. Martha’s
Chapel, Corydalis claviculata sparingly
on St. Martha’s Hill, amongst the trees.
This delicate plant is abundant in
a withy-bed below Perrydean fields (Thorne-
combe street) also in a wet coppice at
Hambledon Heath. Mr. Mill (Phytol. i. 41.)
records Listera Nidus-avis as growing
“ in a healthy wood between Guildford
and St. Martha’s Chapel.” Hysoscyamus
niger, by the road-side against Stone-
bridge wharf, by no means a common
plant. Cyperus fuscus, on the margins
of Peat-pond, on Shalford Common. Im-
patiens fulva; by the side of the Tilling
bourne at Chilworth, this beautiful exotic
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