Abstract
THE local flora embodied in the pages of the book before us appears to be usefully compiled, though perhaps the volume as a whole would have been improved had it been printed on thinner paper, so as to form a more convenient pocket companion. Opening with a short introduction on the physical and geological characters of the district, the author gives a list of some 1137 plants (flowering plants and ferns) as occurring within the area treated of, and adds localities, as is usual in works of this nature. The book should prove useful to those lovers of wild flowers who are visiting the Bournemouth district, to many of whom it may perhaps be a matter of surprise that so large a percentage of the British flora occurs within a twelve-mile radius from the town.
Flora of Bournemouth, including the Isle of Purbeck.
By E. F. Linton With map. New edition. Pp. vii + 290. (Bournemouth: Sold by H. S. Commin, Bright's Stores, and W. Mate and Sons.)
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Flora of Bournemouth, including the Isle of Purbeck . Nature 62, 598 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062598b0
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