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APPENDIX 
REPORT ON THE PROGRESS. MADE IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
By Rev. H. J. RIDDELSDELL 
For working purposes, the county has been divided into rather 
artificial districts, which, however, endeavour roughly to represent 
drainage areas. No. 1 comprises the nearly detached Chipping 
Campden section ; No. 2 is the Vale, on the east side of the Severn, 
going as far south as Berkeley: its south-eastern boundary follows 
roads and paths which keep at about 200 ft. above sea-level, and runs 
through Frocester, Stonehouse, Haresfield, Upton St. Leonards, keeps 
above Cheltenham, and passes through Prestbury, - Gotherington, 
Stanley Portlarge, &c.,to Buckland. It is conveniently separated by 
Ermine St. into 2A and 2B. 
Nos. 3 and 4 comprise the land west of the Severn, and are 
divided by a line running from Longhope to Westbury-on-Severn ; 
the Forest of Dean is in No. 4. 
- No.5 is the Bristol Coalfield district ; its northern boundary runs 
from Berkeley through Dursley to Tetbury. 
No. 6 is the Stroud district, and is bounded north and east by 
Ermine St., which is pursued to the neighbourhood of Elkstone, and 
then left for a line running through Winstone past the end of Sapper- 
ton Park, over the Tunnel to Cherrington, Avening and Tetbury. 
No. 7 is the Thames and Colne drainage area, and is divided into 
7A and 7B by the Cheltenham-Burford high road. 
Copies of Bacon’s shilling County Map of Gloucester, with the 
districts properly marked, have been sent to the secretaries and to 
some of the local workers who live near the district border lines ; for 
accuracy is necessary in the designation of locality, when plants other 
than common are reported. The excellence and accuracy of the 
work done by the secretaries (Miss Roper, Messrs Stephens, Coley 
and Neve), their readiness to take up any suggestion made, their 
voluntary and enthusiastic co-operation—it seems almost an impertin- 
ence to use such terms—serve abundantly to show how impossibly 
great would be the work of an editor, if he were deprived of their 
help. And the same things may be said, each in its fit degree, of all 
those whose work is more locally confined. Mr W. R. Storr, of 
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