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APPENDIX 



REPORT (No. 2) ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN CONNECTION 



WITH THE FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



By The Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell 



The chief results of last year's work (1909) may most easily and service 

 ably^eseUorthiiregarde/continuously with the report presented at the 



last annual meeting. 



Considerable additional material, in lists embodying recent observations, 

 ,nd in extracts from old publications, has been received from Miss Roper 

 ^E M DayofSchinhampton. Mr H. H. Knight of Cheltenham Miss 

 K BBlacldfurn of Gloucester. Mr W. J. Greenwood of Cirencester, and 

 others The specimens sent by such workers have always been most 

 acceptable. 



A fresh source of information has been discovered : one which may 

 become under careful handling, of first rate service. It is the supply 

 oTS'lists by Elementary Schools. Temple Guitmg has already placed its 

 ?QOQ list at our disposal. It was felt that a little encouragement and 

 ™isation would develop and improve this kind of material A meeting 

 was therefore held at Lydney in October, at which many Teachers from the 

 Forest ofoean area were present. They were asked to allow such lists 

 of pfants as are usually made'^in their schools to be augmented and altered ,n 

 such directions as would make them more available for the purposes ot 

 aCountvpCra They received promises of assistance, in loan of books 

 rdentificltfon of plantl and such^s: and very g-erally agreed to d.re^^ 

 their alreadv existing work to the end thus proposed to them. It is certa n 

 tSaUnteresLg new records may be expected from this scheme which should 

 S extended rilo to other parts 'of the county^ Foolscap sheets, -^^proper 

 h^adinps are now being distributed among the Teachers. 1 he great Duraen 

 orS'invoWe^ in-cirrying out this plan, and giving it the promise of 

 success wh"ch it certainly shots, has happUy fallen upon the shoulders of an 

 expert— Mr F. Dixon, of Lydney. 



There remains one thing to do : to impress upon all who thus co-operate 

 ■fKfhf rinh y^ the necessitv of careful discrimination in the matter 

 of Laped pL^- far t^^^^^ things are accepted without question 

 as nltWes and (Ij the great value of carefully chosen, carefully gathered 

 and cSuy dried specimens, to be submitted to botanical experts for 

 identification. 



One of the most interesting results o* the year's work ansesfrom^^^^ 

 ODening up of new or comparatively new parts of the county. Certain areas 

 Tre vfsited each for periods of several days -"^ Jists (by no means com^ 

 plete, of course) were made, showing plants observed in each. A typical case 



