FLORA OF BOURNEMOUTH 861 
Flora of Bournemouth, including the Isle of Purbeck ; being an Account of 
the Flowering Plants, Ferns, &c., of the country within a twelve-mile 
radius of the centre of Bournemouth. By Epwarp F. Linton, 
M.A., Oxon. With map. Sold by H. G. Commin, Bourne- 
mouth. 8vo, cloth, pp. viii, 290. Price 8s. 6d. net. [No date.] 
Taar anything to which Mr. E. F. Linton puts his hand will be 
carefully and conscientiously done needs no demonstration ; and it - 
is evident, even to one unacquainted with the district, that his 
Flora of Bournemouth is accurate and exhaustive 
Whether the book was needed by botanists, other than those 
given, viz., just N. of Brockenhurst, near the bridge. In recent 
years botanists have failed to find Limosella here. Let its fate 
warn collectors to be careful of these two fresh localities.” Will 
such a warning have its due effect? We know that in the her- 
barium of one well-known botanist some of our rarest plants are 
represented by dozens, if not by hundreds, of examples; and the 
collecting instinct is sometimes too strong to be kept in chee 
not numbered. One plant may be added t 
any rate at one time occurred on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour; 
this is Mathiola sinuata, to which reference was made on p. 169 of 
Journat or Botany.—Vot. 38. (Serr. 1900.) 2 © 
