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Our thanks were heartily accorded to the Vicar, the Rev. R. R. 

 Needham, M.A., who gave us a kindly welcome and afforded us 

 every facility ; to Miss Tighe, who admitted us to the private 

 grounds of the Priory ; to Mr. H. J. Ellis, who made the local 

 arrangements ; and, most of all, to Mr. George Brownen, who 

 took up the subject where it is generally left by the vergers, and 

 made, out of his stores of erudition and original research, a 

 very valuable contribution to our knowledge of this great treasure 

 in our immediate neighbourhood. 



H. SHAEN SOLLY. 



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Chairman : Miss C. Agnes Hooper. 

 Secretary : G. C. Seeviour, A.C.P., F.R.H.S. 



The work of the Botanical Section during the past year has 

 been carried on with its usual energy. Two exhibitions of Wild 

 Flowers were held in the Society's room, one in May and the 

 other in July. The excursions undertaken were associated with 

 other sections with the exception of one to Christchurch Meadows 

 in May and one to Hinton Admiral in June. The Chairman, with 

 the aid of Miss Jeffery and other ladies, arranged during the 

 Summer Session a weekly Exhibition of wild flowers in the 

 Municipal Library. 



C. AGNES ROOPER. 



SPARTINA TOWN SEN DI. 



In several previous volumes the report of the Chairman of 

 the Botanical Section has been followed by an account, by Mr. 

 R. V. Sherring, F.L.S., of his observations on the growth of 

 Spartina Grass in Poole Harbour. These observations have been 

 continued by Mr. Sherring and the Hon. Editor has received from 

 him (i) a general report ; (ii) a schedule showing that, for the 

 purpose of systematic Photographic Survey, the whole area to be 

 surveyed has been divided into 15 sections ; (iii) notes on each of 

 34 photographs belonging to certain of the sections just men- 

 tioned. 



The schedule should be studied with the help of the sketch 

 map facing page 42 of Volume V. of the Proceedings. The 

 photographs cannot be reproduced here, but the notes, even by 

 themselves, will be of use to those interested in the growth of the 

 Spartina. 



Mr. Sherring has also sent particulars of the discovery in 

 Dorset, by members of the Society, of a plant new to Britain. His 

 note on this subject follows those on Spartina. 



