TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 



SESSION LXVII. 



Suggestions towards the Pkepaeation of a Eecoi;d 

 OF THE Flora of Scotland. By James W. H. Trail. 



(Read 12th February 1903.) 



Towards the close of last century it appeared to me 

 desirable to obtain, as far as possible, a record of what 

 was known about the Hora of Scotland, to serve in future 

 as a standard of comparison by which to mark changes in 

 the flora, and possibly to show something of the causes on 

 which such changes depend. Much had been done in the 

 previous two decades in exploring districts that had long 

 been unvisited by botanists, and of the results of most of 

 these explorations I had kept notes; It seemed at the 

 outset that little more was required than a careful com- 

 pilation from the local floras formerly and recently 

 published, and from the numerous lists or fuller articles 

 that had appeared in botanical journals and transactions. 

 But a more careful examination of these showed that we 

 are still far from the accurate information that is necessary 

 before a record can be prepared that could be used as a 

 trustworthy standard for future comparison. 



Few of the floras or lists relate to natural areas, and 

 fewer still supply the needful information with desirable 

 completeness. Earely is there even an attempt to show, 



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