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report on it is appended. During the Winter session interesting 

 lectures on various Botanical subjects were given by expert 

 authorities, to whom the thanks of the section are due. 



On Saturday mornings in each week, September to April 

 inclusive, a few of the members met in the Society's room t<^> 

 arrange the Herbarium. For this work special thanks are due to 

 Mr. Swain, who on his own account also devoted many hours in 

 each week to it, and has brought it to a most successful issue. 

 Thanks are also due to Miss Jeffery, who has most unfailingly 

 and punctually been present each Saturday morning to aid in the 

 mounting of the specimens and other work. 



The Section has sustained a great loss during the year by the 

 death of its kind and valued friend, Dr. Shillitoe. 



Various gifts of specimens of plants have been added to the 

 collection, which has now become quite an important one. Books 

 have also been presented to the Section from time to time. 



Such in brief is the record of the Botanical Section. Besides 

 Mr. Sherring's report on Spartina, a list of plants collected by 

 him and Mr. Green will be found below. 



C. AGNES ROOPER. 



REPORT ON SPARTINA GRASS* 



BY 



R. V. Sheering, F.L.S. 



1913-14. 



I have to offer special thanks to Captain Marston for per- 

 mission that enabled me to visit and carefully examine the 

 luxuriant growth of this grass in places closed to the public. 



Holes Bay. — Here the increase continues. Another of these 

 gregarious patches of little grass islands is forming off the North 

 shore, south of the Poole-Weymouth line and midway across the 

 bay between Creekmore Lake on the east and Upton Lake on the 

 west. North of the line the increase continues, and at Ham- 

 worthy Bridge, Poole, the grass is much thicker. 



Poole Harbour. — Off the Sanitary Hospital there is a very 

 considerable change, the clumps being much larger and spreading 

 over more ground, with a tendency to become meadows. On the 

 approach to the mouth of the harbour the growth of the grass is 

 suspended or far less rapid. A small patch of clumps is forming 



* First record, H. & J. Groves, 1878, " Journal of Botany, xi. i., 1882 ; with 

 plate, S. stricta, var H. & J. Groves, " Journal of Botany," viii. 277 ; Townsend's 

 Cord Grass'" Townsend's Flora of Hants," 1901, page 479 ; "Gardeners' Chronicle," 

 vol. xliii, Third series, 1908, page 33 ; "Tansley : Types of British Vegetation," 

 1911, page 337 ; " Proceedings of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society," vol. 

 iv., page 49, 2 plates, also vol. v., page 48, K. V. Sherring, F.L.S. ; page 76, Dr. 

 Stapf, F.R.S., 4 plates, 



