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Note on the ' Flora of Leicestershire] with Addenda thereto. 

 By Miss M. Kirby. 



Your correspondent is evidently unacquainted with the character 

 and design of the ' Flora of Leicestershire.' The work, which is not 

 a published one, is simply preparatory, and has been printed for local 

 convenience. No botanist can be expected to furnish the author with 

 a complete list of all the plants, common or rare, that have come under 

 his observation ; but with an arranged catalogue, and a blank page 

 before him, it is easy to insert the results of his investigations. Copies 

 of the Flora may be obtained of Crossley, Leicester, and have been 

 forwarded to botanists in the county, with the name and address of 

 the compiler, together with a personal appeal for assistance ! should 

 such be afforded, much valuable information will be gained ; the cata- 

 logue thus augmented will eventually be published, and "authorities 

 given with the localities enumerated for the rarer species." The use 

 of the asterisk is explained by a note at the foot of page 4, and refers 

 throughout to Crabbe's ' Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir.' The 

 note of interrogation speaks for itself, expressing doubt and a wish 

 to obtain further evidence. Sedum album, Rosa rubiginosa, and Ru- 

 mex pratensis, three plants thus introduced, have already had locali- 

 ties assigned them. The mistake of CEnanthe pimpinelloides for 

 CF. Lachenalii was occasioned by an accidental reference to a previous 

 edition of the 'London Catalogue,' in which CE. Lachenalii is not to 

 be found. The en - or of Glaucium luteum was erased as soon as dis- 

 covered. It is feared that Cardamine impatiens must also disappear 

 from the list ; Oldbury is unfortunately in Warwickshire, the locality 

 near Ashby de la Zouch will probably prove to be in Derbyshire, and 

 the plant has become extinct upon Bardon Hill. 



It may be interesting to give a few addenda. 



Hesperis matronalis. 



Geranium robertianum, var. album. 



Potentilla Comarum. 



Rubus sylvaticus. 



Babingtonii, var. Bloxamii. 



radula, var. Hystrix. 



glandulosus, var. rotundifolius. 



Galium palustre, var. Witheringii. 



Iris pumila. — Apparently indigenous in Charley Meadows. 



Potamogeton zosteraceus. 



Carex fulva. 



