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done, but our government have refused a hydrograpliic 

 survey of our English lakes. 



Mr. W. H. Beeby read a paper, ' On some Eecent Additions 

 to the Surrey Flora,' as follows : — 



On the last occasion that I had the pleasure of reading a 

 paper before you I was able to record that during the year 

 1884 about ten species had been added to our Surrey list, 

 these being either entirely new records or confirmations of 

 old records made on very doubtful or insufficient authority. 

 The result of the past season's work presents a considerable 

 contrast to that of the previous one. Apart from critical 

 forms and varieties there are no additions whatever to be 

 recorded, and as the time given to investigation has been 

 quite as great as in 1884, 1 think we may fairly conclude that 

 our list is now a tolerably complete one, so far as the ordinary 

 plants of the county are concerned ; of course excepting 

 critical forms and great rarities, a few of which may yet tm'n 

 up in isolated localities. Still, notwithstanding the absence 

 of any new species records, some interesting confirmations 

 have resulted from the past year's work, as well as the 

 rediscovery of one species which had become extinct in its 

 original station. 



The first plant to which I would draw attention is the 

 Common Lady's Mantle, Alchemilla vulgans. Though said to 

 occur near Keigate, Dorking, and elsewhere, I have never 

 been able to find it, and no Surrey specimens seem to exist in 

 herbaria or have been seen by any botanist with whom I am 

 acquainted. I was therefore very glad to receive a specimen 

 last summer from Mr. Thomas Howse, who gathered it in a 

 wood near Horsley, where it was first noticed by the Eev. 

 George Sawyer. 



One of our rarest plants, not only from a county point of 

 view, but having regard to the whole of Britain, is the Slender 

 Cotton-grass, Eriophorum gracile. Formerly known only in 

 this country as a native of Yorkshire and Surrey, and 

 occurring but in a single locality in each county, it has long 

 been extinct in both. A few years since it was discovered in 

 Hampshire, and last June I had the good fortune to meet 



