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NOTES ON DORSET PLANTS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A. 
Tue material for the following remarks has been drawn from 
the south-eastern corner of Dorset, all the plants referred to having 
been found within a radius of ten miles of Poole Harbour. This 
radius takes in portions of four out of the seven divisions of the 
county, viz., C, D, F, and G, which are formed partly, but not 
entirely, on watershed principles. The district has been we 
ed, much more so than i —— parts of the county: and 
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especially in the two genera Rubus and Rosa, in which, rich as this 
‘t of the country is, the ‘dices of the Rey. W. Moyle Rogers, 
and also of the Rev. R. P. Murray, have left little room for 
independent commen te 
a Smithit Hook., var. approaching alatostyla Townsend. 
Hedge-banks, Kinson. This form has a long style, and no notch in 
the fruit moke often than not, but the sraiee is not altogether 
absent. Mr. Townsend tells me his variety has a short style, and 
no notch whatever. 
dines maritimum L. On the shore of Poole Harbour, near 
Parkston a garden outcast. © 
Viola ¢ canina X lactea. The Rey. W. R. Linton eathered this on 
a heath near Broadstone, and has tested it by cultiva 
lene noctiflora Li. A casual, with Mello ae 5 also a 
i trave 
cas 
Ulex Gallit Planch., not given in the Do a F. lora, is the most 
abundant Ulex in ~ die covering large areas of heath-land. 
Trifolium procumbens L., var. majus Koch, fide Ar. Bennett. 
Chalky field- se Studland. 
Lotus tenuis W. & K. Lytchett Minster. 
Onobr. =p sativa Lam. Chalk down, near Swanage. Queri 
as native in Dorset Flora. There is every reason to believe = 
on the slopes of the chalk downs, hind it forms part of the natural 
herbage, this plant is native. 
Lathyrus Nissolia L. Abundant on the banks of a railway- 
cutting near Bailey Gate; rare in the county. 
Rubus opacus Focke. By a streamlet in a rough piece of 
meee? New to the county. —R. leucandrus Focke. ” Hedge- bank 
ar Kinson.—R. Bloxamii x mucronatus. Name suggested by the 
Rae W. Moyle Rogers, and accepted by Dr. Focke; gathered as an ® 
very setose variety of mucronatus in Foxholes Wood, near 
ate. — R. corylifolius x rusticanus formed a dense bush in a ec 
not far from Bailey Gate Station, which was entirely barre: 
sa rubiginosa L., var. comosa Ripart. Between Littleson and 
stone ; new to county. — R. lucida Ehrh. Rough border of an old 
brick-yard. bass | 
Drosera intermedia Hayne, var. subcaulescens Melyill. The older 
