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PROCEEDIXGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 191 2 



APPENDIX 



REPORT (No. 5) ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN CONNECTION 

 WITH THE FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 

 By the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, M..\. 



The work of preparing the County Flora has reached a stage which it is 

 desirable to mark in a special way. 



A good amount of work was done in 19 12 by Mr Day, who worked at a 

 definite area in the neighbourhood of Tetbnry, and made systematic records ; 

 by Messrs Haines and Knight, and other workers. The President of the 

 Club, and the Editor of the Flora, spent some weeks at Cranham, and made 

 careful investigation of many places in the neighbourhood, with the assist- 

 ance of Messrs Colcy, Jollv, and other botanists. A number of new records, 

 especially in critical plants, (e.?. Rnhns fitsciis, and its beautiful var. ntacio- 

 stachys, R. scaber, and the rare R. botryeros) were noted, and the distribution 

 of some of the scarcer species more accurately gauged. 



It is now proposed to follow the lead given by Mr F. H. Davey, who 

 edited the Flora of Cornwall a few years ago. In preparation for the com- 

 plete work, he issued a preliminary list of records a number of years pre\ iously. 

 In this he collected all records, good and Ijad, available up to the date of 

 issue ; supplied blank interleaved pages, and issued it for the use of those who 

 could' help him in the further work of investigation. Workers thus had the 

 whole of the facts available put before them. The danger of spending time 

 over unnecessary work was escaped ; a simple and easily available means of 

 noting new records was pro\ided. Botanists saw where it was necessary to 

 follow up and re-establish an old record, where gaps neetled filling, where there 

 existed an ignorance of critical forms, etc. 



It is proposed to follow this plan for the purpo.se of the (.loucestershire 

 County Flora. The Preliminary List will be compiled as soon as possible, in a 

 simple and straightforward wav, witii a few hints as to what is desired in the 

 way of further work. It will lake some time to compile, but when it is 

 ready, and in use, it should certainly make the ad\ance towards the complete 

 Flora much more rapid. 



For the purpose of this Preliminary List, workers are reipiested to send 

 in all outstanding records as soon as possible. 



PBB8E9TED 



29 WAY 1913 



