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Plan of the Flora. 



As space has been an object, I have been obHged to make ray 

 remarks in the body of this work as brief as possible, havinr;- 

 principally confined them to short notes which may be found 

 helpful in distinguishing allied species. As already explained, I 

 had not hoped for time to carry out much of the research work 

 dealt with in this preface ; consequently the resulting corrections 

 have to be embodied in an Appendix instead of in the main body 

 of the work. 



The few synonyms cited are those names, or most of them, 

 which have been used for the species in Debeaux's and Kelaart's 

 Floras. 



The months of flowering have presented some difficulty. They 

 are mostly taken from my own oliservations, which I find to agree 

 much more closely with those given by Perez Lara than with 

 Willkomm and Lange's, which latter, of course, deal with the 

 whole of Spain. Our own region, having so much milder a winter, 

 naturally has a much earlier flowering season. Even on the Kock 

 plants often flower from three to five weeks earlier than in the 

 surrounding country. Some also flower almost the whole year 

 round, or at irregular periods depending on the season, so an 

 accurate flowering time is not easy to define. For those species 

 which I have not myself seen in flower, I have quoted the months 

 given by Perez Lara. 



In giving the relative frequency of the species, I may have 

 been in error in supposing that those which I have not myself 

 found are rare ; they are at least not likely to be common. The 

 impression given by Debeaux is in some cases quite misleading. 



The citation of other collectors is only given in the case of 

 stations in which I have not myself seen the species, and is not 

 always the oldest record, but a selection of what appears to be 

 the most reliable from those given by Perez Lara or Debeaux. 



The collection which I made is deposited in the Gibraltar 

 Garrison Library, duplicates of nearly all the specimens of my 

 first year's gatherings (to no. 1502) being in the Department of 

 Botany of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, and 

 of the second year (no. 1503 to end) at Kew. 



The collection having been made principally for local use, the 

 localities given on my labels may, I fear, be not very clear to 

 those unacquainted with the neighbourhood. The names for 

 places in Spain can nearly all be found on the Hunting Map of 

 Gibraltar, but have been used in a somewhat comprehensive sense. 

 Thus, for want of any better name, I have called the whole of the 

 area between the east foot of the Queen of Spain's Chair and the 

 sea, " Bonel's Farm," while the west slopes more or less opposite 

 San Eoque I designate " Pindalista." Local names for precise 

 localities are most difficult to obtain, and would probably be un- 

 intelligible to any one but members of the Calpe Hunt. 



In conclusion, I must offer my best thanks to the several 

 friends who have most kindly assisted me with the determination 

 of the more difficult species. Dr. 0. Stapf has named all my 

 -Journal of Botany, October, [Supplement 191i] . c 



