Contributions to it jfiora of 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 



LIMONIUM RECURVUM, C. E. Salmon. 



By W. BOWLES BARRETT. 



(Read Dec. 5th, 1911.) 



NTIL about 55 years ago, comparatively little was 

 known of the flora of Portland. Some scanty 

 records had come down to us in Dr. Pulteney's 

 Catalogue of Dorset Plants, probably compiled 

 for the most part, between 1765 and 1785. 

 These were augmented, from time to time, by 

 the observations of occasional visitors to the 

 Island. The first edition of the late Mr. 

 Mansel-Pleydell's " Flora of Dorsetshire " was published in 

 1874, and the 2nd Edition in 1895. He made fairly frequent 

 visits to the Island. My own observations of Portland plants 

 have extended, at intervals snatched from a busy professional 

 life, over a period of about 37 years. The Island has now 

 been well worked. This is one of innumerable instances of 



