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extensive personal investigation. It is scarcely necessary to remind our 
readers th 
plants has been rewarded by the discovery of Leucoium vernum, new 
to Britain, and of Scirpus parvulus, long lost to our flora ; and the pages 
me show h g 
e county, and cla i ‘ 
gravelly heathlands, present themselves in different parts, the latter 
forming a marked feature of the south-eastern portion of the county. 
very account of the geology is given, which would, however, 
have been of greater interest to the majority of English botanists if 
the space devoted to paleontological matters had been given to some 
BS FR a AS RS le oes a is ee eae 
e author has divided the county into seven districts, the boun- : 
daries of which are shown in the map inserted in the volume. The — 
te consi 
small part in the north-west drained by the Yeo, the water of whi 
ultimately reaches the Bristol Channel, all the streams ait pi 6! 
b asin 0 
Stour, which enters the sea at Christchurch, in Hants, and the i 
proportion of the remainder being drained ,by rivers and streams, % 
which the Frome and the Piddle are the two largest, which flow into 
the extensive estuary of Poole Harbour. No doubt the author has 
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_ * The boundary between Hants and Dorset seems to be ae locality for 
given in the map, if correct, enlarges Hampshire and makes the ; 
Simethis in that county instead of in Dorset. 
