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junceum. The botanist to whom Camden or his subsequent 

 editors were indebted for the above was John Ray, and it 

 is interesting to note that all the plants just mentioned, 

 except the Cotyledon and Lysimachia, are still found in our 

 riding. 



In Oliver's "History of Beverley" (1829) there is a list 

 of the less common plants to be found in the district, but 

 the name of the botanist responsible for this is not given, 

 and certainly no one with much claim to knowledge of plant 

 names would have passed the badly-spelled list. 



Scaum's " Beverlac " — a history of Beverley — was pub- 

 lished in 1839, and contains interesting lists of flowering 

 plants, ferns, mosses, &c., carefully prepared and compiled 

 by Colonel Machell and Dr. Hull, from Mr. Robt. Teesdale's 

 (vide supra) and their own observations. The lists do not 

 profess to be exhaustive, giving only 125 names of the 

 higher plants. It is to be regretted that the compilers of 

 Scaum's lists leave so little indication of their own original 

 observations, which, we think, may have been extensive in 

 the East Riding. Only a few specimens now in York 

 Museum, it has been ascertained, have been left as vouchers 

 for the above. 



Next in order of time comes Baines' "Flora of York- 

 shire," published in 1840. From its preface we learn that 

 there were several botanical workers in Hull and other 

 places of East Yorkshire. Mr. David Smith was Curator 

 of the Hull Botanic Gardens, which were then nearly thirty 

 years old, and had been amongst the best in the kingdom. 

 Mr. Smith made careful observation of the plants that grew 

 around Hull and had furnished a list of them to Mr. Baines, 

 then sub-curator of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's 

 collections. So we take it that many of the stations of 

 plants mentioned in Baines' "Flora of Yorkshire," in terms 

 such as "near Hull," "between Beverley and Hull," &c., 

 would be due to Mr. Smith, but he does not specify more 

 definitely, as he might have done with advantage, in these 

 and many other instances throughout his work. Nevertheless, 

 for the East Riding of Yorkshire, Baines gives a fairly large 

 number of records, amounting in all to 264. 



In 1854 another edition of Baines' was published, with 

 a supplement by J. G. Baker, the able author of " A New 

 Flora of Northumberland and Durham," "North Yorkshire 

 Botany," &c., but his additions for the East Riding are 

 chiefly gathered from the older authorities overlooked by 

 Baines, not numerous, however, being in fact only 36. This, 



