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Corfe Castle ; Ulwell. Habenaria conopsea, Benth. F. Witch- 

 ampton ; rough pasture between Edmondsham and Woodlands. 

 G. Rempstone ; Godlingstone Heath. H. bifoh'a, R. Br. F. 

 Moist side of railway, Goatham. H. chloroleuca, Ridley. F. 

 Woods in Edmondsham and St. Giles ; copse near Boveridge ; 

 Sutton Holms ; High Wood ; Dairy Wood. G. Woolgarston. 



Iris fxlidissima, L. Frequent on calcareous soils, absent from 

 the heathland. C. Preston. F. Shapwick ; abundant in the 

 belt around Kingston Lacy Park ; High Wood ; Hemsworth ; 

 Mange Wood ; Queen's Copse ; Edmondsham ; Cranborne. G. 

 Studland ; Creech Grange ; Woolgarston ; Kingston ; Encombe. 



Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, L., Common Daffodil. D. Lytchett 

 Matravers, abundant in woods and pastures. F. Copse S. of 

 Wimborne ; woodland and pasture, Edmondsham. G. Wyck, 

 L. V. Lester-Garland, Esq. Galanthus nivalis, L., Snowdrop. 

 F. Bushy field border, Edmondsham, where it may be native. 

 Leucojum ccstivum, L., Snowflake. Wet coppice, Shapwick, 

 where it was pointed out by the late Rev. R. P. Murray. 



Tamus communis, L. Local rather than " generally dis- 

 tributed." I never saw it on the heathland. D. Aimer to East 

 Mordcn ; Sherford Brook ; Lytchett Minster. F. Hampreston ; 

 near White Mills ; Bailey Gate ; Kingston Lacy ; Hemsworth ; 

 Dairy Wood ; West Moors and Cross Keys ; Holt; Woolbridge ; 

 P'dmondsham. G. Studland ; Swanage, W. M. Rogers. Near 

 Corfe Castle ; Woolgarston. 



Ruscus aculeaiits, L. Butcher's Broom. F. Hemsworth ; West 

 Moors ; Woodlands ; Edmondsham ; Cranborne and Boveridge. 

 In the latter neighbourhood berries arc very infrequent, though 

 the female plant abounds ; infertile perhaps from the absence of 

 the staminiferous plant, which has not yet been detected. 

 Asparagus officitialis, L. F. Miss K. G. Firbank reported this 

 plant in plenty on Poole Harbour sandbanks; recorded in 1799 

 by Pultcney. All him rincale, L. In its common form var. 

 compacluin. D. Lytchett Minster churchyard. F. Railway banks 

 N. of Bailey Gate ; King's Down ; Edmondsham, hedge banks 

 on the side towards St. Giles'. G. Scotland Farm, near Corfe 



