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appeared till 1824, when Dr Greville produced his 

 ' Flora Edinensis,' This now classic work is a bulky 

 volume of nearly 500 pages, and embraces both 

 flowering and flowerless plants, arranged under 1794 

 species. The need of a smaller and more portable 

 book called forth, a few months after the appear- 

 ance of Dr Greville's work, a pocket volume entitled 

 ' A Catalogue of the Indigenous Phenogamic Plants 

 growing in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and 

 of certain Species of the Class Cryptogamia, with. 

 Reference to their Localities,' by James Woodforde, 

 a prizeman at that date in the botanical class of 

 Professor Graham. This concise list of 806 species, 

 arranged according to the Linnaean system, as was 

 the fashion of the time, is still valuable, furnishing 

 a ver}' interesting record of the plants then growing on 

 Arthur's Seat and within the precincts of the Park, 

 although the author goes occasionally much farther 

 afield. As a pocket companion for the field-botanist 

 in this district, it had no rival, for nearly forty 

 years, until, in 1863, it was superseded by the 

 ' Flora of Edinburgh,' compiled by Professor J. H. 



