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records, especially those of critical forms, and a gradually 
perfected record of distribution of commoner forms. Others 
have only recently been dealt with, many of them quite 
imperfectly. 
A glance at a map of Gloucestershire, in the light of this list, 
will shew what a large number of-parishes are without any definite 
records. Every district needs to be worked systematically parish by 
parish ; every parish needs to be searched almost acre byacre. This 
is, of course, to aim at completeness, if not perfection; but the ideal 
must undoubtedly be kept in mind, and a systematic organisation of 
the Club’s workers under one directing mind, preferably with personal 
guidance for one or two outings, would see a large proportion of the 
new ground broken year by year. It is a work that, for real useful- 
ness, must extend over years. If it is not done somehow --failing all 
other means, by the editor personally—the Flora will not be worth 
publishing. Volunteers for this task are wanted. 
Large parts of the Forest of Dean need careful lists made. There 
are a few records from Hewellsfield, Soudley, St. Briavels, &c., as 
well as from spots already mentioned, but a short study of the map 
raises the query, What about the general Flora of this, that, and the 
other place, Clearwell, Bream, Edingwall, Christ Church, &c.? It is 
far from sufficient to take one parish or locality as a sample of the 
rest. The method would answer perhaps in 90 per cent. of the plants 
and fail in the rest, the most interesting part of the Flora. Most of 
district 3 needs full records from each parish. In 2A the Tewkesbury 
neighbourhood must be worked, with a discriminating eye on the 
county boundary and the whole of that sub-district east of Tewkesbury. 
The Vale of Gloucester, all the way down from Tewkesbury to 
Sharpness, promises to be one of the most interesting parts of the 
county. The banks of the river and the land a few hundred yards on 
each side will yiéld numbers of new records in Potamogeton, Salix, 
Carex, Grasses, &c., (Poa palustris was discovered last year). The 
lands within the bends of the river below Gloucester ought to show 
many tidal plants. In No. 5 many new records are being made, in 
spite of the severe working it has had for many years past. Ranun- 
culus Lingua, Eriophorum latifolium, Euphorbia Cyparisstas are samples 
of last year’s finds, and the uplands between Wotton-under-Edge and 
the county boundary eastwards need closer acquaintance. No. 6 is 
perhaps the most completely worked of all the districts; perhaps it 
only comes second to No. 5. Yet even here a new locality for 
Cephalanthera rubra was discovered last year; and Astragalus hypoglottis 
new to W. Gloucester. The part of this district east of Painswick 
and Stroud, and north of Sapperton Valley needs patient and detailed 
investigation: In 7A and 7B only patches of ground have been ex- 
amined. Cheltenham to Sevenhampton, Bourton and Slaughter and 
Stow, Naunton, Winchcombe, pretty nearly complete the tale in 7A. 
In 7B Fairford and Kempsford, Cirencester, Kemble and Pool Keynes, 
Cheltenham neighbourhood, and not much else. All the woodland 
about Chedworth, the valleys of the Colne, and Leach, and Thames, 
