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The true aquatic plants, or those growing entirely in the 

 water, dicoteledonous and monocotyledonous together amount to 

 about thirty species, the greater number being found either 

 in the canal or the river. 



The Equisetacece and Filices number together about twenty-five 

 species. The latter, the true ferns, are not very numerous about 

 Bath, and include few rare species. 



With respect to the comparative rarity or frequency of 

 occurrence of the plants in the Bath Flora, about 480 species 

 may be considered as either for the most part very common, or 

 if not equally plentiful everywhere, at least generally distribut-ed 

 throughout England, and not calling for particular notice except 

 in certain cases to be hereafter specified. About 230 species are 

 more or less uncommon ; or, if locally jilentiful in some parts of 

 this country, are far from general. It is, however, very difficult 

 to draw an exact line between these two divisions. In both 

 cases the naturalized and other plants not really native, already 

 spoken of, are excluded. 



A list of some of the rarer species, including others -which, 

 though hot very uncommon, are likely to interest botanists 

 visiting the neighbourhood, will be found in an Appendix at the 

 end of this lecture.* I have not given the localities in which 

 they are to be severally met with (except in the case of plants 

 found at Wick, and for the most part peculiar to that station), as 

 they may be seen in the "Flora Bathoniensis," to which the 

 reader is referred. At the same time it may be useful to state, 

 for the guidance of strangers, the best localities around Bath for 

 plants generally. Such are Prior Park woods, Smallcombe woods, 

 Claverton and Brass Knocker woods. Friary wood, near Hinton 

 Abbey; woods near Limpley Stoke, Warleigh woods, St. 

 Catharine's Valley and the woods bordering on Charmy Down, 



* At the time of delivering the Lecture many of the most striking of 

 these species were exhibited, and commented on. 



