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hoped may eventually prove to be adequately representative of the 
_ whole County Flora—a process which will take years to reach matur- 
ity ; the result, however, if achieved, will make a possession adequate 
to the present importance and past history of the Cotteswold Club. 
2—PRINTED MATTER. Many works have already been con- 
‘sulted: some very thoroughly. The most important work in this 
respect, however, yet remains to be done. The British Museum at 
S. Kensington will be of the highest service for this purpose, and 
eventually the Club will owe a large debt of gratitude—it is already 
of no mean size—to the museum officials for courteous help in tracing 
old printed records. Such works as Camden’s ‘‘ Britannia” (in its 
- various editions), A/errett’s ‘* Pinax,” How's ‘** Phytologia,” Parkin- 
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son’s ** Theatrum Botanicum” and ‘‘ Paradisus,” Gerard’s ‘‘ Herball”’ 
(and Johnson’s edition), Zobel’s ‘‘ Adversaria,” and fay’s Works are 
all useful, though the labour of consulting them is enormous when 
compared with the results yielded. Of later works the various Bristol 
lists, eg., Shiercliff’s ‘ Bristol Guide” (1793), Swete (‘‘ Flora of 
Bristol,” 1854), A. O. Stephens’s list, White's ‘‘ Flora of the Bristol 
Coal Field,” the ‘‘ Botanist’s Guide” (1805), and the ‘‘ New Botanist’s 
Guide,” (1835 and 1837), the ‘‘ Phytologist,”’ the ‘* Journal of Botany,” 
the Cotteswold Club’s ‘‘ Proceedings,” the Bristol Naturalist Society’s 
‘“* Proceedings,” and those of neighbouring Clubs ; Badington’s “ Flora 
Bathonensis,” Buckman’s Cheltenham list, the “ Painswick Parish 
Magazine,” and other local lists; Watson’s ‘‘ Topographical Botany,” 
and the various volumes which prepared the way for it; the Reports 
of the various Exchange Clubs ; the references in handbooks of the 
general British Flora, such as Badington and Sowerby ; a forthcoming 
Flora of the environs of Chepstow, by Dr Shoolbred; Watchell & 
Strugnell’s ‘* Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire,” may be mentioned. 
Some of these have been thoroughly examined. A note of ANY WORK 
not here mentioned, which is likely to be of service, whatever its age. 
or value, should be put at once at the disposal of the Club, so that it 
may be passed on to the editor of the Flora. The amount of material 
amassed from such sources as these is very great, but a far larger 
quantity certainly remains to be gathered up. Happily, the work 
done by Mr White for the Bristol Coalfield, and by Dr Shoolbred for . 
Tidenham and Beachley, will render the task of the Gloucestershire 
Flora in those parts that of a mere plagiarist. 
3—MS. Lists. Some old ones are of value ; one by MrG. H. K. 
Thwaites, of Bristol; another by the Rev. G. W. Sandys, of Stroud ; 
the work done and the MSS. collected on Monocotyledons by Prof. 
Harker, and the very large MS. material kindly handed over by Mr 
Boulger, who worked for years in the preparation of a county Flora 
for Gloucestershire. These form the foundation of all subsequent 
work in this department. There are very many recent, more or less 
complete MS. lists, all of the greatest possible use, as being usually 
confined to small areas. Those from leading British Botanists, such 
as the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers and the Rev. H. P. Reader, are 
unhappily few, but no doubt the happy arrival of Mr Charles Bailey in 
