Botanical Report. II 
Sub-Committee proceeded to compile a complete list of all the 
plants which they had themselves observed in that district ; to 
look up and examine fresh localities ; and to make a complete 
record of all the places in which they have found the rarer 
species; and the result has been that a large mass of in- 
formation as to our local wild flowers has been accumulated. 
Annexed to this report is a complete list of all the species of 
Phanerogamic, or flowering plants, and of the Filices, Lyco- 
podiaceze, Marsileacee, Equisetacee, and Characez, of the 
Cryptogamic plants which have been thus observed, and their 
total number is 754. ‘These do not, however, include a con- 
siderable number of species like the Spruce Fir, Lime, and 
Sycamore, which, although they are common enough in parks, 
woods, and plantations, cannot properly be considered to be 
wild. 
Of the 754 species nearly 700 are to be found within four 
miles of the place where we are now assembled. This list is 
of course as yet but a very incomplete one. The district will 
require a great deal more attention than it has yet received, 
before it will be possible to compile a complete catalogue of 
its plants. In Mr. Brewer’s Flora of Surrey—which is any- 
thing but an exhaustive Flora of the country round Croydon— 
and in other works, a number of additional species are 
recorded as occurring at various places in our district; but as 
the Sub-Committee have not yet been able to ascertain whether 
these species are still to be found in the localities given they 
have, for the present, omitted them from the list. Still the 
results which have been obtained thus far are satisfactory, 
considering the short time during which the Sub-Committee 
have been at work. Now that attention has been called to 
this subject, and the matter has been taken up systematically, 
there can be little doubt that a large number of fresh species 
will be added to this list, and when this has been done the 
Croydon district will be shown to possess a Flora, which, for 
the number and variety of its species, will compare favourably 
with that of other districts of the same size, and which affords 
very ample materials for the study of English Botany. 
In the seventh, which is the last edition of ‘‘ The London 
‘Catalogue of British Plants” (published in 1874), and which 
‘standard authority has been followed in all matters of classi- 
fication and scientific nomenclature, the total number of 
‘species of flowering plants and of the five families of Crypto- 
gamic plants, above mentioned, which are found wild in the 
British Islands, is stated to be 1680. It will be seen, therefore, 
that the plants already observed by the Sub-Committee in 
our district comprise nearly one half of the total number of 
‘species in the London Catalogue. Further than this, the 754 
