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THE FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 
By tHe Rey. E. F. Linton, M.A., F.LS. 
Two of the last visits which the late Rev. Wm. R. Linton 
paid ib fell in the autumn months, and he serie ut to me 
several fungi on these occasions with which he had d become 
familiar in South rage ire. His copy of Massee’s British 
Fungus-Flora (3 vols. ste vol. iv. 1895) came to me by gift after 
his death, ate showed ¢ t he had been in the habit of noting in 
the margin of that work the species he had seen in the neighbour- 
hood of Shirley, Mende he had lived as vicar of the parish for 
twenty years in that county. 
Consequently I tists to collect and record the fungi in my 
part of the obuity of Dorset, and as the interest tae I gradually 
extended my researches along the eastern borders of the county, 
from — _ oe a little to the north, to Branksome 
Park, near Bournemouth, and Poole Harbour, in the south. From 
the intervening aden within a few miles of Wi eer Minster 
two ladies aided me by collecting in their respective districts, 
Mrs. E. W. Baker and Mrs. Pringle, whose names are appended 
to ae —— 
cquaintance with this branch of botany was ve 
slight, all ses specimens, and those contributed by the friends 
referred to Mr. J. F. Ra 
A few, chiefly minuter organisms, were identified for me at Kew 
Py the a of the Director of the Royal at and some of 
is st 
in Cranb he 
Laciadlihs Clay and the Woolwich and Reading beds, passes through 
Edmondsham, and divides the sandy district from the chalk. 
During the last two seasons Mr. C. B. Greea, of Swanage, 
eet of my work, offered to collect for me in Purbeck; and, 
than those given in this ; find fuller puiulars in the 
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural a and Antiquarian Fie 
Cl ol 1914, and vol. xxxyi. 1915), pt which 9p Linge 
JounnaL oF Borany.—YVot, 53. ries: $918; ve) 
