"glofes on f6c porscf grCora. 



By the Rev. E. F. LINTON, M.A. 



(Read Feb. 20th, 190S. ) 



^ iA ^pHE corner of Dorset to which this paper chiefly 

 ^^ '' " refers, of which Cranborne is the principal 



village, has not yet been worked out, nor its 

 flowering plants fully recorded. In my 

 paper of three years ago on Dorset Plants 

 (Vol. XXVI., p. 75), some of the less 

 common species from the neighbourhood 

 were included ; but many more seem to be 

 worth reporting or commenting on. The 

 parish of Edmondsham alone, seldom mentioned in the F/ora of 

 Dorset, supplies a good number, two or three of which have not 

 hitherto been recorded for the county ; consisting of a large area 

 of heath land and mixed soils and a good expanse of chalk, 

 divided by a belt of London Clay, its varied geological character 

 ensures a varied and interesting Flora. 



The names of the plants here mentioned follow the nomen- 

 clature and sequence of the ninth edition of the London 

 Catalogue as being in general use. The well-known districts 

 (lettered A to G) of the Flora of Dorset are carefully obser\-ed ; 

 only, as most of the localities are in District F, that letter may be 



