8 Botanical Report. 
3.—_First REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL Sus-ComMITTEE. 
[Read Dec. 18th, 1878.] 
It will be within the recollection of most of you that at our 
usual monthly meeting, on Dec. 1gth, 1877, the hon. secretary 
laid before the members of the Club a list of the wild plants 
found in the immediate neighbourhood of Croydon, which had 
been prepared and forwarded to him by one of our members, 
Mr. W. F. Miller. That list extends only to the tract of 
country which lies within a radius of about eight miles from 
Croydon, and the. number of species which Mr. Miller had 
found within that district is about 400. These, however, did 
not comprise any of the members of those numerous and 
important families—the rushes, the sedges, and the grasses. 
Mr. Miller did not put forward this list as being by any means 
a complete one, but, on the contrary, he gave it only as the 
result of his own observation, and he communicated it to the 
Club in the hope that others of our members might be induced 
to co-operate with him, and help to complete the list which he 
had begun. 
Mr. Miller was not, however, the only member of the Club 
who had been at work in this field. Mr. Beeby, Mr. Bennett, 
and Mr. Flower, had, for some years past, spent a considerable 
amount of time in investigating the botany of the district, and 
had compiled a large number of notes as to our local wild 
flowers, and, before Dec. 19th, 1877, had had under considera- 
tion the best way of working, systematically, the wild plants 
of our neighbourhood. As it was felt that Mr. Miller’s object 
was one which well deserved support, and one, moreover, 
which came peculiarly with the province of our Club, at the 
meeting on Dec. 19th, 1877, Mr. Miller, Mr. Beeby, Mr. 
Bennett, and Mr. Flower were formed into a Sub-Committee, 
to investigate the botany of our district, and to prepare a 
complete list of its plants. In this way the Botanical Sub- 
Committee came into existence. They now submit their report 
of this their first year’s work. 
The first thing which the Sub-Committee had to consider 
was the district to be investigated, and after full consideration, 
the following was adopted, as being on the whole, the most 
convenient, and for botanical purposes, the most complete. 
The northern boundary of the district selected is the river 
Thames, from the mouth of the river Darenth, near Dartford, 
in Kent, to the mouth of the river Mole, near East Moulsey, 
in Surrey. The eastern boundary is the river Darenth, and 
the western is the river Mole. The southern boundary is the 
