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of others the doubt arises whether they should not really be 

 placed in the next class. 



Class B gives me 90 out of 151 ; class 63 or, adding 10 as 

 the probable number of Bubi which I have not ventured to 

 label, 73 out 280 ; D not more than 12 out of 237 ; whilst the 

 43 of E are represented by a single species, Euphorbia platy- 

 phylla. 



Thus the number of species found in Hoi well up to the 

 present time amounts to 435 ; * and as, probably, a dozen or so 

 more have thus far escaped my notice, it will be seen 

 that we possess in our little parish more than a quarter of the 

 plants to be found in the whole of the British Isles. 



There are, however, some deductions that ought perhaps in 

 fairness to be made from this list. Mentha Pulegium, though 

 now fast taking possession of a considerable portion of waste 

 ground, is, no doubt, a garden escape ; Phalaris Canariensis is a 

 casual ; and Sedum album must have been brought, though not 

 at a recent period, to the wall on the Manor House, where two 

 years ago it grew in profusion, though I fear it is now destroyed. 

 Parietaria diffusa is only found on the walls of the same place ; 

 and in what was the farmyard are five plants which are waifs 

 and strays of cultivation, Tanacetum vulgare, Verbena officinalis, 

 Geranium rotundifolium, Urtica urens, and still more strange, 

 Lamium album. Of this plant, so abundant in most places, I 

 have only found a single specimen away from the Manor House, 

 in a roadside ditch. Lathyrus Nissolia, which formerly grew in 

 two localities, has for the present disappeared. Of the other 

 specimens, at present unique, I must mention Ranunculus 

 sceleratus, Chrysanthemum segetum, Agrostemma Githago, 

 Carduus nutans, and I once had as a weed in my garden a 

 single specimen of Solanum nigrum. The Cornbrash patch 

 gives me three plants, Circsea Lutetiana, Thymus Serpyllum, 

 and Clematis vitalba. I had noticed the profusion of this last 



* To these must be added Arctium minus, not mentioned in the Flora of 

 Dorset, and three " Colonists," Trifolium incarnatum, T. hybridum and 

 Lolium Italicum. 



