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With these preliminary instructions and notes, I pass on to a 

 cursory survey of the flowering plants and ferns, noticing rarities 

 already known, desiderata, my own observations round Ciren- 

 cester and other facts. Watson's Cybele Britannica seldom 

 notes the occurrence of plants in our county, but generally 

 confines itself to mentioning the province of the Severn, so I 

 shall speak of plants so mentioned as " in the Cybele." 



Clematis Vitalba, a septal plant, on calcareous soil, in the 

 Cybele, abundant and frequent in X. 



Thalictrum minus and T. flavum in the Cybele, 



Anemone Pulsatilla, in the Cybele, as local and pascual, on 

 calcareous soil, at doubtful altitudes, Gloucestershire and Berks 

 being its southern limit. It occurs abundantly on Barnsley 

 Down in X and at Eodborough in IX. 



Myosurus minimus, Eanunculus Lenormandi, circinatus, 

 hederace^^s, Flammula, Lingua, auricomus and acris are in the 

 Cybele, the latter occurs chiefly by roadsides in X. 



Ranunculus hulbosus is the commonest meadow species in X. 



Caltha palustris abounds in the meadows of the Thames and 

 Churn. 



Aquilegia vulgaris, the Columbine, is apparently wild in 

 Oakley Park. 



Sinapis muralis is reported from Bungay near Bristol. Is 

 this in the county and authentic ? 



Does the Yellow Waterlily {Nuphar luiea) occur in the county? 

 I am informed by Mr. S. F. Elton, of Cirencester, that it does, 

 at Cricklade, Wilts. 



Gardamine impatiens has been seen from Gloucestershire by 

 Mr. Watson. Query, from what part ? 



Arabis stricta only occurs near Bristol and Cheddar in 

 Gloucestershire and Somerset. 



Draba muralis according to the Cybele has its southern limit 

 in Somerset and Stafford. Does it occtu- in Gloucester? 



Thlaspi perfoliatum is our most interesting rarity. It is 

 mentioned by Hooker as occurring in "Limestone pastures, 

 rare ; Oxford and Gloucestershire ; fl. April — May." I do not 

 know whether Burford, in the former county, is the original 



