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respects. Loiseleur mentions B. oleracea as native of the Atlantic 

 shores of France, which Duby limits to those of Normandy. 



On the top of the chalk cliffs near Duddle Door grows Erodium 

 maritimum, and on the banks above a large corn-field, east of West 

 Lnlworth, there was abundance of Ophrys apifera and a few plants of 

 Orchis ustulata. These are all the rarities I noticed in the neigh- 

 bourhood. On my return through Wareham I examined a plant 

 which is probably the CEnanthe fluviatilis of Coleman, though the de- 

 scription does not quite agree. The place where I was able to get at 

 it was just above a mill on the Piddle, a little above Wareham, in a 

 gentle current, and the water perhaps two feet and a half deep. The 

 stems there were erect, very hollow, not angular, and somewhat thick- 

 ening downwards to the root, but with a slight contraction between 

 the root and the stem, with numerous whorled fibres, but not so nu- 

 merous or so thick as in QE. Phellandrium. In other places, in a 

 stronger current, the stems were drawn out as described by Coleman, 

 and appeared not to thicken from the middle downwards. The sub- 

 mersed leaves exactly correspond with his figure and description ; 

 but though 1 feel confident that they belonged to the same plant, 1 

 could not get up any in connexion with the flowering stem, which 

 produced no leaves entirely under water. It does not appear that 

 CE. Phellandrium has any of these submersed leaves at this time of 

 year. The plant is abundant in the Frome and Piddle, and also in 

 the Avon, and probably in the Stour, flowering freely, but at present 

 the seeds ar*e of course very imperfectly formed. Wareham stands on 

 a sandy point of land between the rivers Frome and Piddle, and its 

 ancient boundaries are marked on three sides by an earthen bank, 

 forming a pleasant walk. The fourth is formed by the river Frome. 

 This projecting point, though sandy, is of not so barren a soil as the 

 heaths which occur at a little distance both on the north and south 

 sides of the town. From Wareham I returned by railway direct to 

 Lewes. 



Joseph Woods. 

 Lewes, August 1, 1848. 



