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316 NOTES ON ISLE OF WIGHT PLANTS.
this and some other respects, the same proportion to those of R.
Mammula as the flowers of Caltha radicaus do to those of C. palustris
(fide Icon. E. B. ed. 3, vol. i.)!
Fumaria Borcei, Jord. Brixton, Isle of Wight. In a series of
specimens collected by me at this locality, there are some which agree
perfectly with the description of F. Borai, Jprd., in the third edition
of ' English Botany ' (vol. i. p. 106), and also with specimens in my
herbarium, of that plant, collected by Mr. Boswell Syme at " Auchter-
tool, Fife, September, 1868." Other specimens from the same locality
at Brixton have a very decided resemblance to the authentic speci-
mens of F. palUdlflora, Jord., in the British Museum herbarium, and
especially to a plant collected by Mr. Borrer in 1848 at Bonchurch,
named by him F. capreolata alblflora, which Mr. A. G. More has
identified as F. palUdiflora, Jord. These latter plants from Brixton
also agree with the book descriptions, having recurved fruit-pedicels
and creara-colonred flowers with dark tips. Probably F. palUdiflora
and F. Borai are distinct, but the book characters of each are certainly
not well marked in any of the plants before me. The character given
by Prof. Babington and Mr. Boswell Syme to F. p(dUdiflora of the
length of the fruit being rather more than the breadth, is given by
Lloyd in his ' Elore de I'Ouest de la France ' to F. Borai, and he
also appears to have transposed in his descriptions of the fruit-pedicels
of the two species the terms " epais" and " rare." A specimen in my
herbarium labelled " F. pallidi/o?-a, Jord., hedgebanks, Cuchandall,
CO. Antrim, Ireland, June 28th, 1866 ;
S. A, Stewart," is clearly Borcei.
Crucianella stylosa, De Cand. This plant has established itself in a
lane near Carisbrooke Castle, no doubt from some garden, and flowers
freely, but I have not noticed any fruit formed. I noticed the plant
in 1866, but I have no doubt it existed there long before that time.
It is mentioned in * English Botany,' ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 233, amongst
the excluded plants, as having been found by Mr. J. G, Baker on the
embankment near Scarborough Railway Station, Yorkshire.
Senecio campestris, De Caud. The only locality given in Dr. Brom-
field's 'Flora Vectensis,' is one copied from the 'Hampshire Repository,*
vol. i. p. 121, in which it occurs on the authority of the present Dean
of Winchester and the Rev. Mr. Poulter, " Cin. alpina (campestris)
Belhan, pi. I. W," Neither Dr. Bromfield nor any one else ever
ascertained where this locality was, and the plant was therefore deemed
,