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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



granules turn out to be very minute cells, which 

 fact would seem to indicate that the organism 

 containing them has not yet attained maturity as 

 a motile form. 



F. Jas. George. 

 Charley, Lane. 



LIST OF LOCAL FLORAS. 



I HAPPENED by an accident to miss seeing the 

 January number of Science-Gossip until this 

 week, or I should have sooner noticed a "List of 

 Local Floras of the British Isles." Such a list would 

 be very useful if made as perfect as possible ; but for 

 that purpose extensive inquiry is necessary, and the 

 Secretaries of Natural History Clubs, of which there 

 are now one or two in almost every county, might be 

 asked for information as to their respective localities. 

 An incomplete list is but of little use ; for thus work 

 that has been done is left unnoticed, and it is certainly 

 advantageous to know what has been already accom- 

 plished. Thus, as to Worcestershire, only one work 

 is mentioned with reference to its plants, while I 

 could have added as under : — ■ 



Worcestershire. 



"Rarer Plants and their Localities," in Dr. Nash's 

 " History of Worcestershire," 2 vols, folio, 1790. 



Plants recorded in Pitt's " Agriculture of Worcester- 

 shire," Svo. (about fifty years since.) 



Scott's " History of Stourbridge," Svo. 



Dr. Hastings' " Illustrations of Natural History of 

 Worcestershire," Svo. 



Roberts's "Habberley Valley, near Kidderminster," 

 i2mo. 



Stanley's " Guide to Worcester," with list of plants, 

 by T. Baxter, 121110. 



"History of Tenbury," Svo. 



" Botany of Worcestershire, with enumeration of all 

 its Plants," published by the Worcester Naturalists' 

 Club, Svo. 1867. 



"Worcestershire Fungi," in " Transactions of Mal- 

 vern Field Club," Svo. 1S70. 



" Rubi of Worcestershire," in " Babington's British 

 Rubi." • 



Then as to other counties of which I have know- 

 ledge, additions might be made. 



Gloucestershire. 



Buckman's " Flora of Cheltenham," Svo. 



Plants of Symond's " Nat-on-the-Wye," in " Botani- 

 cal Looker-Out in England and Wales," 8vo. 1851. 



" Plants Growing in the Parish of Forthampton, near 

 Tewkesbury," by Captain Seracald, 8vo. 



" Plants of Tewkesbury in Tewkesbury Register," 

 Svo. 



Herefordshire. 



" Flora of Herefordshire," by Rev. W. H. Purchas, 

 in " Transactions of Woolhope Club," Svo. 1866, 

 and subsequent years. 



Hampshire. 

 Wise's "History of the New Forest," 4to. and Svo. 



1S63. 



Kent. 



" The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells," by 

 R. Deakin, M.D. ; Groombridge, London, 1871. 

 Descriptions of 7S2 species, and engravings. 



Leicestershire. 



Potter's " Charnwood Forest," the Botany by Rev. 

 Andrew Bloxam, 4to. 



Monmouthshire. 



"Rarer Monmouth Plants" in " Purton's Midland 

 Flora." 



Staffordshire. 



"Botany of Staffordshire," in Garner's "Natural 

 History of the County of Stafford," Svo. 1844. 



"Flora of Staffordshire," by Dr. Fraser, in " Trans- 

 actions of the Staffordshire Naturalists' Club," Svo. 



Warwickshire. 



Bagnall's "Plants Growing in Sutton Park, near 



Birmingham." 

 "Remarkable Plants Growing in the Vicinity of 



Birmingham," by Dr. W. Ick, in "The Analyst," 



for 1837. 

 " Cryptogamic Flora of Warwickshire," by J. E. 



Bagnall, in "Midland Naturalist," 1879. 



WALES. 



Merionethshire. ' ' Plants of the Great Orme's Head, ' ' 

 by T. Baxter, in " Llandudno Guide." 



Much information as to local works and lists of 

 plants might be obtained from the Secretaries of the 

 various Natural History Clubs, now so numerous ; 

 and if a list of these officers could be obtained and 

 published in Science-Gossip, it would much facilitate 

 botanical correspondence. Local observers should 

 be known, and their information acted upon, and so 

 many omissions would not then be made. The 

 design of Watson's "Topographical Botany" is 

 admirable, but it is very incomplete from want of 

 that local assistance and evidence that the officers of 

 county Naturalists' Clubs could have supplied. The 

 same observation applies to " Local Floras," and the 

 plants of particular places, which can only be fully 

 known by information from resident observers. 



Edwin Lees, F.L.S. 



Green Hill Summit, Worcester. 



