BOTANICAL RECORD FOR 1887-88. 
By WM. HODGSON, A.L.S. 
EVER since my appointment to the post of Botanical Recorder to 
the Association, conjointly with the Rev. R. Wood of Rosley, I 
__ have collected information bearing on the Botany of Cumberland 
and Westmorland, with a view to the publication of a Flora of the 
county. The manuscript has been examined and approved by 
Mr.*J. G. Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S., of Kew. I am largely indebted 
to Mr. Baker for many valuable suggestions, as well as for the free 
use of his own reports on the Alston and Gilsland neighbourhoods. 
The following local gentlemen have also courteously lent me all 
the aid in their power, viz: Mr. W. Duckworth, late of Carlisle ; 
Mr. Jos. Adair of Egremont; Mr. J. C. Smith of Nandana, 
Penrith ; the veteran Wilson Robinson of Whinfell Hall, Cocker- 
- mouth; Mr, R. H. Hamilton of Maryport; Dr. Leitch of Silloth ; 
_ Mr. T. Lister of Flimby, &c. 
Tam still open to receive further notice of localities for species 
other than the commonest forms of plant life, that may be found 
in Cumberland; particularly from Longtown district, and the 
extreme north of the county. Mr. Baker wrote to me on June 
_ 26th of the present year (1888): “I have studied your Flora with 
_ much interest. It is a great advance to have all the Cumberland 
_ records codified in this way, and so many new ones added. I 
_ hope Mr. J. A. Martindale of Staveley will do for Westmorland 
f what you are doing for Cumberland ; and that Mr. J. C. Melville 
will re-work Furness for his projected Flora of Lancashire.” 
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