LIST OF PLANTS 
Noticed by the Bury Natural History Society within jifteen 
| miles of Bury. 


In compiling this list, I have gone carefully through the minutes of 
our Society for the last four years, and have also examined the com- 
peting collections of botanical specimens for a prize, a few years back. 
T have supplemented the information derived from these sources only. 
by the addition of such plants as I have noticed myself and can vouch 
for. Excepting in the case of very common plants which have been 
brought from time to time to our meetings either in the infancy of the 
Society, or for purposes of illustration, or anatomical study, or where 
a plant is recorded on my own observation only, the initials of the 
contributing members have been attached. 
From causes already alluded to, there have been several changes in 
our constitution since we commenced operations, and therefore 
several authorities that I quote are no longer members of our Society. 
This is the key to the initials :— ‘ 
J. P.—James Pixton. R. F.—Robert Fairbrother. 
J. T. W.—Rev. J. T. Whitehead. | S. H.—Samuel Horrocks. 
J. W.—Joseph Wrigley. T. C._-Thomas Charles. 
J. A.—Joseph Alcock. W. H.—William Holt. 
R. K.— Robert Kay. 
In arranging the list I have followed Bentham’s ‘‘ Handbook of the 
British Flora” so far as the flowering plants go. For the ferns I have 
taken Moore's British Ferns, because many make an almost exclusive 
study of these plants, and this admirable handbook only costs 1s. 
As to the English names, I have been much puzzled. I have made 
no attempt to indicate systematically specific distinctions by English 
names, but have preferred to use those by which the plants are most 
commonly known. This even is no easy task to carry out, for many 
plants are not known by any English name, and in many instances 
T have never heard an English name, though there probably is one; 
in other instances there are several names. In cases of doubt of this 
kind I have referred principally to Withering’s ‘“‘ British Plants,” 
Smith’s ‘English Flora,” and to Hooker and Arnott’s ‘‘ British Flora.” 
A few Fungi have been brought to our meetings, and a few of us 
have become to a limited extent toad-stool eaters, but so little has 
been done by us in this study that I omit them altogether. 
