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may easily be recognised, and should not be confused with Sison 

 An'omum, L. (Edmondsham, Horton, &c.), whose leaves have 

 only 3 or 4 pairs of more coarsely serrate leaflets. (Enanthe 

 pimpindloideSy L., Edmondsham ; Woodlands ; locally abundant 

 in the county, but not generally distributed, absent, e.g., from 

 all heath land. (E. silaifolia, Bieberstein, still wants ascer- 

 taining, I believe, for Dorset. The Rev. R. P. Murray and 

 I have independently searched the meadows on both sides of 

 the Stour near Shapwick and Sturminster Marshall without 

 discovering it. (E. pimpinelloides is plentiful , in some of the 

 meadows, which, if judged by the root leaves only, is very 

 deceptive. The roots need digging up for a safe character. 

 (E. Lachenalii, C. Gmel., Parkstone, at or near Lilliput ; near 

 Edmondsham. G. Stoborough meadows ; by the Corfe River. 

 Silausflavescens, Bernh., a troublesome weed in pastures, 

 Edmondsham, deep rooting and not easily got rid of. Caucalis 

 a)~vensis, Huds., occurs in chalky fields, Edmondsham, now and 

 again. 



Adoxa Moschatellina, L., grows on suitable hedgebanks here 

 and there in Edmondsham, and in more profusion near Cran- 

 borne. Galium Cruciata, Scop., frequent in most parts of Dorset, 

 except on the heath land, is strangely scarce, if not absent, in 

 the Cranborne neighbourhood, though it abounds in suitable 

 ground. G. uliginosum, L., near Edmondsham in the valley of 

 the River Cran towards Holwell, and, strange to say, in a large 

 field, known as Hiles, on the top of a ridge, where there 

 is no water and only one or two slightly moist places. 

 The plant usually occurs in marshy places. G. tricorne, 

 Stokes, abundant and very fine in the summer of 1907 in a 

 chalky field near Barnfield, Edmondsham. G. Cornfield 

 between Worth Matravers and St. Alban's Head. Asperula 

 odorata, L., very plentiful in woods and hedgerows in 

 Edmondsham. G. Creech Grange. A. cynanchica, L., Stour- 

 paine Furze Down ; Knowlton ; Harley Down ; downs near 

 Cranborne and Pentridgc. Valeriana Mikanii, Syme, woodland, 

 Edmondsham and Cranborne. V. sambucifolia> Willd., common 



