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our subject is primarily introduced. Suffice it to say that 

 the authorities or their initials for the species and localities 

 will be given in "The Flora" proper. 



For ourselves and some of the contemporaries just referred 

 to, we may mention that certain fragments of published 

 work not included in "The Naturalist" or other book have 

 played a part in leading up to this fuller and more compre- 

 hensive effort. In "A Guide to Hornsea," published by 

 Mr. A. T. K. Fretwell,* of Hull, in 1894, there is a fairly 

 good list of Holderness plants by the writer of this work. 

 The same may be said of the "Guide to Flamborough," 

 by Rev. R. Fisher, M.A., Vicar of Sewerby, and published 

 by Messrs. Wm. Andrews & Co., Hull (1894). 



Valuable East Riding records have been made permanent, 

 too, by the Malton Natural History Society in their published 

 proceedings (1886-7), and these, together with botanical lists 

 compiled b}' Mr. Henry John Wilkinson for the annual 

 publications of the Yorkshire Literary and Philosophical 

 Society recently issued, have been of the utmost service to 

 us in our present work. For most of the records of the Rubi 

 (Brambles) we are almost entirely beholden to the last named 

 gentleman's kindly aid. 



Furthermore, in the MS. notes and reports of the Hull 

 Scientific Societies, as well as in some of their printed work, 

 references to man}' plant discoveries by contemporary workers 

 are given ; whilst so lately as the beginning of 1901, in 

 Deacon's "Court Guide of the East Riding of Yorkshire" 

 will be found a popular account of our flora and a considerably 

 larger number of plants than had previously been printed. 

 The compiler of the present work was responsible for the same. 



On the whole the foregoing, as far as we can gather, is a 

 fairly complete account of the bibliographical part of our 

 subject ; and it may naturally be thought to show a degree of 

 paucity and indirectness of bearing for which, however, we 

 can scarcely account, but simply express our regret. 



Nor are those vouchers, which, we think, always should be 

 the basis of a flora of any locality, more numerous and forth- 

 coming than the MSS. or printed records. In fact, with the 

 exception of Mr. J. Freeland Young's specimen herbaria 

 and prize collections made in the fifties and above referred 

 to, we have no collection expressly of East Riding plants. 

 From dried specimens in the Museum of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society having East Riding localities attached 



* The brothers Fretwell of this city are amongst our fellow-workers in 

 the field. 



