ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRIBUTORS. 



1. The number preceding each plant is the number attached to the 

 plant in the London Catalogue, edition 9, 1895. 



In the nomenclature, 



B = Bentham's Handbook, edition 6, 1892. 

 H = Hooker's Student's Flora, edition 3, 1884. 

 Bab. = Babington's Manual, edition 9, 1904. 



comb. nov. combinatio nova, British Mussum Catalogue (Brit. Mus. Cat.), 

 1907. 



2. The abbreviations are, generally speaking, obvious ; the more important 

 are : 



A. = annual. fl. = flower. r. = rare. 



B. = biennial. c. = circiter (about). v. = very. 



P. = perennial. ab. = abundant. est. = established. 



D. = deciduous. pi. = 1. plant. ch. = chiefly, 



sp. = species. 2. plentiful. X a cross or hybrid. 



3. The chief published Sources are : 

 Hanbury and Marshall's Flora of Kent, 1899. 



Flowering Plants of the Bromley District, edited by the Rev. J. J. Scargill, 



B.A., 1898. 

 The First Report of the Botanical Committee of the Greenwich Natural 



History Club, 1858. (Gr. N.H.C.) 

 Flora Metropolitans, by Daniel Cooper, A.L.S., 1837. 



Most of the older records are taken from Hanbury and Marshall's Flora, but 

 old records are only included when they are of some historical interest, and 

 these are indicated by letters instead of numbers. 



In the records, 



H. = F. J. HANBURY, F.L.S. 



M. = E. V. MARSHALL, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Dod. = CAPTAIN WOLLEY-DOD, R.A. 

 De Cr. = Dr. EYRE CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY. 



Sc. = THE REV. J. J. SCARGILL, B.A., Bromley. 



Sp. = G. SPOONER, Bromley Naturalists' Society. 



4. Our chief contributors are indicated by initials : 



W.H.G. = W. H. GRIFFIN, Hon. Sec. Catford Natural History Society. 

 F.M.R. = F. M. ROBERTS, Gipsy Hill. 



A.D.W. = A. D. WEBSTER, Regent's Park (Flora of Kent, 1893 ; History 



of Greenwich Park, 1902). 



J.D.R. = J. D. ROBERTSON, Hammersmith Cemetery. 

 R.H.C. = R. H. CHANDLER, Belvedere. 

 C.H.G. = C. H. GRINLING, Woolwich. 

 J.F.B. = J. F. BEVIS, B.A., B.Sc., Eltham. 

 L.C.C. = L.C.C. BOTANY DEPARTMENT, Avery Hill, Eltham. 

 Poly B.C. = WOOLWICH POLYTECHNIC BOTANY CLASS. 

 The names of other contributors are given in full. 



5. For the lower plants, authorities, sources, and abbreviations are given 

 in the preface to each group. 



