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inhabitants of the Doward hills; since they are plants easily recognisable, which 
have been searched for on the Dowards over and over again without success. 
List of remarkable plants, known to grow in the immediate vicinity of the 
Dowards, under conditions exactly reproduced at the Dowards, but never found 
there. 
Distance 
Name Where found from Dowards 
Ranunculus parviflorus, Z. ... Huntsham, Herefordshire .. toile 
Berberis vulgaris, Z. ... Coldwell rocks, West Gloucester 1h - 
Rubus saxatilis, Z. cee eS PP 5 dav ass 
Pyrus latifolia, Syme, M.S. ... Coldwell and Staunton Woods, 
West Gloucester 3, 
Filago minima, Fr. ... Huntsham, Herefordshire easy 
Pyrola minor, Z. ... Staunton woods, West Gloucester 14 ,, 
Calamintha Nepeta, Clairv. ... Staunton, West Gloucester i Ser 
Cynoglossum montanum, Zam. ... Coldwell woods, West Gloucester 1 ,, 
Euphorbia Lathyris, Z. ... Welsh Bicknor, Herefordshire ... 2 ,, 
Polygonatum officinale, All. ... Coldwell woods, West Gloucester 1 ,, 
Brachypodium pinnatum, Beauv. ... Coppet hill, Herefordshire ae a 
Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. ... Symonds’ Yat, West Gloucester 4 ,, 
Nephrodium emulum, Baker A aS ? Quite near. 
In saying that these plants are not inhabitants of the Dowards it is not in- 
tended to imply that they never have been, or that they never will be. It is well 
known, that plant-life, like all other life, is perpetually on the move ; and what is 
more probable, than that, for example, Pyrus latifolia, which is so remarkable an 
inhabitant of the Coldwell and Staunton woods, will be wafted across the river 
gorge by some of those wings which Nature knows so well how to give, and spring 
up, a real new Native, of Doward and Herefordshire? And so of the rest. Still, 
they have not got there yet. 
There are a few other plants which have been searched for on these hills with 
a fainter and more distant hope, which has never been realised. For example, 
Arabis stricta, and the other rarities of S. Vincent’s rocks, because associated 
with Hutchinsia petrea: Carex ornithopoda, because associated with the same 
plant in Derbyshire: Valeriana Mikanii, because inhabiting the limestone cliffs 
of the Wye valley at Wyndcliff. 
But it is enough. To mention all that botanists hope to find would involve 
ourselves in ridicule, and detain you all night. We will only thank you for listen- 
ing to the story of what we have found; and assure you in the words of the 
revered Fries, that there is plenty of work left for you to do— 
“‘Quamvis multas plantas per multos annos observaverim, me tamen omnes 
observasse non confido.” 
