. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. ave three forms; from the Spanish Peninsula Nymanenumerates 21, many of them, as I know to my cost, puzzling tothe last degree. • Now, here in Dorset, we have a good chance ofstudying one point in connection with this genus. Ulex Gallii,Planch, is very abundant on our heath-lands. Often it is typicalenough, but frequently it gets very close to U. nanus, Forst,from which I suppose it to have been derived. In northernPortugal, I have observed typical U. nanus abundantly, but neveranything like U. Gallii. This (sec. Nyman) first a
. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. ave three forms; from the Spanish Peninsula Nymanenumerates 21, many of them, as I know to my cost, puzzling tothe last degree. • Now, here in Dorset, we have a good chance ofstudying one point in connection with this genus. Ulex Gallii,Planch, is very abundant on our heath-lands. Often it is typicalenough, but frequently it gets very close to U. nanus, Forst,from which I suppose it to have been derived. In northernPortugal, I have observed typical U. nanus abundantly, but neveranything like U. Gallii. This (sec. Nyman) first appears innorthern Spain, then in north-western France, and finds its furthestextension in England and Ireland. We may conjecture, I think,from this distribution, and from the instability of the form, that weare looking, in U. Gallii, at the youngest, or one of the youngest,members of the Gorse family. I will only add, in conclusion, that in botany, as in othersubjects, it is very easy to ask questions but frequently verydifficult to answer them. January, ^hz fUbghrag fault. By MORTON G. STUART, Esq., , UR custom of holding the annual business meet-ing of the year at the County Museum atDorchester renders it difficult to find a suitableobject for an excursion in the afternoon. Inthe case, however, of the Ridgway Faultto-day, we have before us a geological problemof considerable interest, which has affected to a very largeextent the chalk formation, which obtains so large a develop-ment in the county, and consequently in the physical featuresand scenery of the district. There is a further reason whyRidgway Hill suggested itself as an object for an excursionthis afternoon. For some time past I have been trying to collectmaterials for the description of the various features of the chalkof Dorsetshire, and at Ridgway Hill I thought the opportunityoffered itself of noticing one of the most striking features of thegreat chalk formation of the county. From here one
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