278 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1909 
the county will enrich the Club in this particularly valuable material. 
It would be desirable to name the actual workers resident in the 
county who have already sent in lists, were they not so numerous as 
to render it impossible. It is to be hoped, however, that the list of 
names may yet be much lengthened. This remark may serve to 
indicate the debt of gratitude which the Club already owes to the 
isolated workers, each in his own district. 
It will be gathered from these remarks that the material is 
decidedly good and fairly large, though dy xo means complete. There 
are two or three very important remarks to make about it :— 
1.—Additional emphasis must be laid on the collection of speci- 
mens, and all the remarks about it made previously. Careful 
note should be taken of the list of critical genera supplied. 
This is perhaps the most important part of what is said in this 
paper, but hardly less important follows. 
2.—Every record or entry must be questioned and criticised 
before it can find its final place. When the material is being 
straightened out, recorders will probably be deluged with 
editorial questions. 
3.—Many lists contain too large a proportion of aliens, rarities, 
and favourite plants like orchids and ferns. What is specially 
wanted now is complete lists, especially (a) of common plants, 
(6) of critical forms. Much more attention should be paid to 
common plants, and particularly to gaps in their occurrence. 
It should be known where e.g., Senecio vulgaris, Stellaria media, 
Poa annua and dozens more do of occur. If a list of very 
common (‘‘ ubiquitous ”) plants is kept by the recorder, it is 
easy to run through it after a day’s work and see if any of them 
were not noticed. Moreover, the most useful work is not to 
give lists of plants occurring over a large district, but to spend 
time going carefully and methodically over a very small and 
homogeneous area, say of a few acres of common or woodland, 
and making a complete list of plants there, and then going on 
to another small, well-defined homogeneous area, and doing 
the same for that. In making lists of this kind a recorder 
should indicate the area carefully and describe its character. 
4.—Large tracts of the county are well worked, others are 
untouched. Campden, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Sharpness, 
Berkeley, Westbury-on-Severn, Mitcheldean, Coleford, Newn- 
ham, Lydney, Tidenham, Symonds Yat and the Wye, the 
Bristol Coalfield, Wick, Bitton, Wotton-under-Edge, Dursley, 
Tetbury, Stroud, Minchinhampton, Uley, Woodchester, Chal- 
ford, Sapperton, Cirencester, Painswick, Pitchcombe, Winch- 
combe, Bourton, Upper Slaughter, Sevenhampton, Dowdeswell, 
Kempsford, Fairford, Pool Keynes, Charlton Kings, Leck- 
hampton are the chief centres which have been worked. Some 
of them have formed the centre of diligent work for many 
years, and the chief matter of fresh interest which can arise 
in such neighbourhoods will be simply a few additional new 
