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Abbas and Weymouth, and marked the feature given 

 to a locality by the abundance of particular plants not 

 generally of common occurrence. This I think worthy 

 of remark to a Dorsetshire Naturalists' Club, and in 

 doing this I trust the worthy observant President, Mr. 

 Mansel-Pleydell, the author of the Flora of Dorset, will 

 not consider me as a poacher upon his manor. 



Among the littoral plants that adorn the stony beach 

 between "Weymouth -and the coastguard-houses, the 

 Sea Bladder Campion (Silene maritima) reigns 

 supreme from its abundance, scarcely allowing space 

 for the Yellow Poppy (Glaucium luteum) to put 

 in an appearance, which it does but scantily ; while 

 every waste place near the sea, and especially in the 

 island of Portland, is covered with the small-flowered 

 Thistle (Carduus tenuiflorus) quite in thickets. 



A feature is given to most of the pastures and 

 grassy places around Weymouth by the quantities of 

 the Parsley-leaved Water Dropwort ((Enanthe pim- 

 pinelloides) that present themselves, for their very 

 dense umbels of white flowers are very conspicuous 

 all through June. Even at Preston, some distance 

 from the sea, the meadows are filled with it. This 

 plant is decidedly different from either (Enanthe 

 silaifolia or (E. LacJienalii^ though Mr. Bentham, not 

 perhaps fully acquainted with them, has placed them 

 together as one species. I have never met with 

 (E. pimpinelloides north of Worcester. 



The Portland Spurge (Euphorbia Portlandica) is 

 conspicuous enough on the Portland Island Eocks with 



