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the chalk hills on the west of the town, and to ascend Creechborough. 

 These chalk hills are of a much harder substance than those of Kent 

 and Sussex, steep on all sides, and thence with a more mountain-like 

 appearance, and the strata are highly inclined. In Botany they af- 

 forded me nothing but Brachy podium pinnatum, which is exceed- 

 ingly abundant on the whole range. Creechborough is a somewhat 

 conical point of sand and gravel, belonging probably to the plastic 

 clay, and apparently overtopping the adjacent chalk hills, but the 

 day was so thick I could nowhere see the horizon, and the rain came 

 on heavily while I was on Kingsbury, and continued till 1 got back 

 to Corfe Castle, preventing my farther examination of the sand and 

 clay pits for the Trifolium resupinatum. 



Saturday was fine, and as the glass was rising, I set off" for Stud- 

 land. The road keeps near the chalk hills and above the barren 

 heaths, although it is itself, I believe, almost everywhere on the plas- 

 tic clay beds. It is remarkable that these beds, where they climb up 

 the back of the chalk hills, as on this road at Kingwood Heath and 

 at Creechborough, have not the extreme barrenness of the lower beds. 

 The strata are, I believe, nearly horizontal, and not inclined with the 

 chalk, at least such is the notion suggested by the appearance of the 

 clay-pits : these upper parts may therefore perhaps belong to a later 

 formation. Over all this tract of country we find a Rubus much like 

 R. plicatus, but the stem more arched and much more prickly. Mr. 

 Borrer suggests that it may be R. nitidus; for my part, I hardly ven- 

 ture to form an opinion on a Rubus, but in this plant the shoots are 

 decidedly arched and hairy, the prickles curved, and the stalk of the 

 panicle not polished. The panicle, too, seems to be nearly simple, 

 in all which it differs from Babington's idea of the Rubus nitidus. 



On this walk, as in that of Thursday, 1 found Orchis conopsea 

 abundant in dry meadows, without smell. The descent into Studland 

 was cheered by Trifolium glomeratum and subterraneum, and Medi- 

 cago denticulata and Lotus hispidus, a pretty group of one tribe 

 growing together. On the beach at Studland, Cynodon dactylon was 

 very strong and vigorous, but not yet showing any of its "horns," and 

 beyond it, in considerable abundance, but for the most part not yet 

 in flower, Filago Jussiei of Cosson and Germain. This is undoubt- 

 edly the Gnaphalium pyramidatum of some authors, enumerated as a 

 species or as a variety of F. germanica, and I see no reason to doubt 

 its being the Filago pyramidata of Linnaeus, though Cosson rejects 

 this idea and Koch reasons against it. Linnaeus does not describe 

 the heads, but the flower (/. e. the compound flower) as pyramidal, 



