4 FOREWORD. 
records. Strict justice in this department is no small difficulty. 
Workers have had such different critical trainings, and so many 
have been doing much useful recording in their own districts, 
ranging over a period of more than a hundred years, while so 
few have left permanent printed memoriais. For any given 
year I place all records in order of merit as follows :—The first 
position is given to localised specimens; secondly, printed 
notices ; thirdly, manuscript records, if made before 1893. For 
the year 1856, for instance, the Bogg specimens, now in the 
county Herbarium, take a higher place than Thompson’s 
Shivbeck Hundred List, which is not supported by specimens. 
This printed list, however, stands before Canon W. Fowler's 
manuscript notes, which I possess, except where such jottings 
are fortified by the original specimens. 
In the case of the Rev. R. E. G. Cole, who gave his 600 
specimens to the county Herbarium, and in that of a few other 
workers, my own register is not sufficiently full as yet, and for 
the present it is quite impossible for me to go through the 
Herbarium at Lincoln. Full justice, however, shall be done to 
every one in the flora, when I have obtained exact details of all 
the specimens there and elsewhere. 
I have added to this alphabetical list, the most frequently 
misunderstood synonomy from my register. The commonest 
bother of the working botanist’s life is the innumerable postcards 
he has to write about nomenclature difficulties,’ after he has 
returned a list of the plants sent in to be named. It is a matter 
which has absolutely nothing to do with his speciality. It can 
hardly be classed as botany at all. It stands on a par with 
terminology. If nearly one-fourth of this pamphlet is devoted 
to solving nomenclature difficulties, it is to be hoped that it will 
enable all our workers, using the flora they happen to possess, 
to read and understand this analysis by means of the names they 
personally use. I myself am now too old to learn new names, 
which may be changed any day, for plants I have known all my 
life. So I collect synonmy, and here use the roth edition of 
The London Catalogue, as the latest authority I know of. 
Many plants, rather difficult to distinguish by untrained 
