IN CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY IN THE VICINITY OF WEYMOUTH. 



By EDWIN LEES, F.L.S., F.G.S., Vice-President of 

 the Malvern & Worcestershire Naturalists* Clubs 



OTANICAL writers of local Floras have not in 

 general sufficiently attended to what Baron 

 Humboldt has called the " Physiognomy of 

 Yegetation," or what constitutes the apparent vegeta- 

 tion of a district by the aggregation of a number of 

 plants all of one species. This gives a feature to the 

 country, which taken in by the eye can be well 

 understood ; but the mere " occurrence " of a plant, 

 though a rare one, however interesting to a botanist, may 

 not make it belong to the endemic Flora of the place 

 where it appears, perhaps, only as a vagrant. Every 

 country has its peculiar or indigenous plants that when 

 gregarious give a feature to the landscape, or to 

 portions of the scenery, and the Palms of the tropics, 

 the Cacti of Mexico, the Sage-plants of the deserts of 

 North America, the Heaths of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 the Banyans of Hindostan, the Laurels and Myrtles of 



