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Sevenhampton, should be here mentioned with special gratitude as 
having generously devoted much time recently to the unpleasant liter- 
ary task of compiling and putting into available shape large quantities 
of ** sundry” and incoherent material, which would otherwise have 
been very difficult to handle. 
The material available for the work consists of : 1—herbaria ; 
2—printed matter ; 3—MS. lists. 
Of 1—HERBARIA, a fair number have been consulted. Those 
of the British Museum at South Kensington; of H. C. Watson at 
Kew; of St. Brody, Sessions, and others, at Gloucester; of the 
Rev. E. F. Witts, now in the possession of Mr Broome-Witts of 
Upper Slaughter ; of the R.A.C. at Cirencester, which consists very 
largely of S. P. Woodward’s valuable collection ; of Cheltenham 
College, containing some, but not all, of W. L. Notcutt’s local col- 
lection; and others; have been examined. The results yielded by 
this kind of work are valuable: not only because in this way large 
numbers of new “localities” are put on record, but also because this 
type of material is capable of examination by experts, (¢.g., the Revs. 
W. Moyle Rogers, A. Ley, E. F. Linton, E. S. Marshall, Mr Arthur 
Bennett, Mrs Gregory). The importance of this fact can only be 
gauged by results, which chiefly occur of course in Rubus, Hieractum, 
Salix, and such critical genera, It is certain that a large proportion 
of new county records during the past year have been due to critical 
examination of old herbarium specimens. Several new records in 
Potamogeton and Rosa have come out of the study of St. Brody’s 
collection, which has here been of singular value. This collection is 
now in the position which it fairly deserves : it is safe at last from all 
ordinary danger, stored in a handsome and adequate cabinet at the 
Museum in Gloucester, and enriched with the annotations of many 
specialists. This fact needs to be impressed strongly on all who are 
now working for the Flora. The collection of specimens, well-chosen, 
adequate, mature, well-dried and annotated (locality, district, date, 
peculiarities of character, &c.) is absolutely necessary in the critical 
genera. Some of the best results for a Flora are to be anticipated 
from this particular kind of work. The genera to which attention 
must be given in this way are: Ranunculus (Batrachian), Pumaria, 
Viola (including pansies), Rubus, Rosa, Epilobium (where hybrids are 
very numerous), Hieracium, Euphrasia, Mentha, Chenopodium, Atriplex, 
Polygonum (esp. P. aviculare), Salix (with numerous hybrids), Pofa- 
mogeton, Carex, Glyceria, Festuca, Bromus, Chara and WVitella. 
There remain yet several herbaria to be examined, if permission 
can be obtained, e.g., that of Major Barnard, and others in the posses- 
sion of living botanists. Of the latter, that of the Rev. Augustin Ley, 
of Ross, will doubtless be very valuable in results. Reference should 
be made to the fact that several local workers have already begun to 
collect, and send in small parcels of specimens for examination. 
Enough has been said to show that they deserve the special thanks 
of the Club for this useful work. At the same time, a collection in 
the care of the Rev. Walter Butt is slowly growing up which it is 
