INTEODUCTION clxXXV 



iiana germanica (confirmatory), Asperugo prociimbens, Cltenopodium opxdi- 

 folium, C. flcifoUum, Bromiis arvensis, and Kitella mucronata in 1892. 



Among my more recent correspondents and helpers may be men- 

 tioned — Miss Fry, the discoverer of Crepis biennis and other interesting 

 plants about Upton ; Mrs. James and Mr. Carles, who found Boronicxmi 

 PardaHanchcs near Besilsleigh ; Miss Parker, who has sent me notes 

 on plants about Tubney ; Miss Beatrice Taylor, who has found many 

 fungi on the Foxcombe range of hills ; Mr. Stanton of Park Place, 

 near Henley, who has made a very valuable list of plants from that 

 charming neighbourhood, and who was possibly the first discoverer 

 of Valerianella rimosa in Berkshire ; Mr. F. Bellamy, -vn^Iio made 

 a collection of plants about the *■ Ridgeway/ among which w^as the 

 first undoubted specimen of Gentiana germanica from the county, and 

 who has made a series of most interesting phonological observations ; 

 Mr. W. Whit^'ell, who has sent me notes of Berkshire plants 

 observed by himself, and which with his usual kindness he extracted 

 from his herbarium for me ; Mr. Weaver of Newbury, who supj^lied 

 me with notes on more recent finds, including Impatiens bi/Iora, which 

 is completely naturalized by the Emborne stream ; Mr. C. E. Salmon. 

 Avho contributes notes of plants seen about Wokingham ; Mr. Holland 

 of Oxford, who gives the localities of plants observed round Reading ; 

 the late Mr. A. Lomax of Liverpool, who lias forwarded to me the 

 names of a few plants from Hagborne ; my friend the Rev. H. J. 

 Riddelsdell of St. Michael's College, Aberdare, who has told me of 

 many plants seen in various parts of the county, including a new 

 locality for Potaniogeton alpiniis {ru/escens) ; Mr. F. T. Richards of Trinity 

 College, Oxford, my companion in many a long trudge through the 

 e-ovmty, and a ready helper in any difficulty, who has found Sfachyy; 

 annua and Setaria glauca as casual plants near Oxford ; Mr. Garnsey of 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, whose help I have already tried to acknow- 

 ledge, and who has supplied me with notes on the flora of the portion 

 of Berkshire immediately adjoining Oxford ; Mr. F. Tufnail, who, in 

 addition to the discoveries already mentioned, has made a list of more 

 than 300 plants seen about Mortimer, among them Erodium 7noschaturn, 

 and who has made a most interesting addition to our flora by the 

 discovery of Phegopieris polypodiodes ; and more recently Mr. A. B. 

 Jackson of Newbury, who has noticed Caucalis latifolia, C. daucoides, and 

 other casual plants about that town ; Miss Humfrey of Shippon, who 

 has found Astragalus danicus near West Ilsley ; Mrs. Batson of Welford 

 Rectory, and her friend Miss N. E. Bowen, who have made a list of 

 plants seen about that place which contains several plants of interest. 

 Miss Beales of Inkpen has rediscovered Herminium on the chalk downs, 

 and has recorded the occurrence of Crocus vermis in a locality where it 

 is certainly wild, if not indigenous, near Kintbury ; Miss M. Niven of 



