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The following Table, shewing the number of species of 

 flowering plants in some of the local Floras of Britain, is 

 extracted from "Remarks on the Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of British Plants," by Hewett Cottrell Watson. 



MARITIME. No. INLAND. No. 



Devon 774 Tunbridge 717 



Yarmouth 724 Oxford 727 



Anglesea 764 Bedford 717 



Berwick 707 Cambridge 847 



Edinburgh 774 Bath 632 



Glasgow 629 Lanark 604 



Mean 728 Mean 707 



This Table was published in 1835, at which time the 

 author considered 1400 species to be the extreme limit of 

 the British Flora. Some of the Floras were issued at a 

 much earlier date, as that of Bedford, by Dr. Abbot, in 

 1798. The " Flora Edinensis," published in 1834, con- 

 tains 750 species. 



The folloAving Floras are more recent : 



Yorkshire 956 dated 1854 



Shropshire 893 „ 1841 



Oxfordshire 860 „ 1833 



Manchester 713 „ 1849 



Liverpool 835 „ 3851-5 



My attention has been chiefly given to the Crypto- 

 gamia, but in the course of various excursions in the 

 vicinity of Liverpool during four seasons, I have met 

 with more than 600 species of flowering plants. 



That so many plants are found in a district somewhat 

 unpromising in its first appearance, may be accounted 

 for by the fact that, within a circuit of ten or twelve 

 miles round Liverpool, a botanist may make at least five 

 or six excursions to localities each one differing widely 

 from the rest in its floral character. 



Woods and Woodlands. — First in order we mav notice 



