gome ^bbitions ta the Jen-set Jlova. 



By Rev, E. F. LINTON. 



i^s^ 



;HE County of Dorset l:as been so tliorouglily worked 

 with a view to the forthcoming County Flora l»y the 

 President of our Society and other botanists that 

 tliere does not seem mucli probability of many 

 additional plants being found within its limits. 

 Yet, since this year has witnessed the discovery of 

 some four or five native plants previously unknown 

 lo Dorset, it is hardly the time to give up re- 

 search. I have been asked to give some account of 

 those recent additions which have come under my OAvn notice. 



Taking them in the order of the Natural Orders, I mention 

 first a rose which I met with last June, when exploring the chalk 

 downs which lie between Compton and Melbury Abbas, near 

 Shaftesbury. This ground produces some other rare and inter- 

 esting plants — viz., Latlnjrus Aphaca, Owhanche elatior, Sutton, 

 Allium oJeraceum, Carex humilis, &c. The rose is a variety of the 

 species known as R. sejnuni, Thuill. {R. ar/resfis, Savi), which has 

 the glandular leaves of s\veet-l)riar, but its scent only in a very 

 faint degree, and is a connecting link between the sweet-briar and 

 the dog-rose (7?. canina, L.). This rose has in the past been placed 

 by some as a variety under R. canina, but by general consent is 



