4 LOCALITIES OF RARER BRITISH PLANTS 
be. Instead of entering the names of species, it would be suf- 
ficient to enter the numbers in the London Catalogue, a copy of 
which should always be the botanist’s concomitant, if he wishes 
to make his observations subservient to the advancement of local 
geographical botany. Rare plants will always be specially re- 
corded. The memory is generally sufficient to retam their lo- 
calities. But information is also desirable in reference to the 
statistics of plants supposed to be universally distributed. For 
this purpose the vasculum is not so convenient a medium as the 
note-book of the field-naturalist. The note-book and the vascu- 
lum together would supply all that is necessary for drawing up a 
a valuable account of the statistics and distribution of the species. 
We have in this number given a sample of notes and queries, to 
which we request our readers’ attention. We would also sug- 
gest to our correspondents to let us have either an abstract or 
copy, when short, of any interesting notices of facts and occur- 
rences which they may notice in the current literature of the day, 
especially from the daily and weekly papers, magazines, and such 
sources. If this should be thought too onerous for our readers, 
we would gladly receive notices informing us where such inciden- 
tal facts are to be found. 
Our purpose is to make the ‘ Phytologist’ as useful as possi- 
ble; and we hope to extend its usefulness, not solely by making © 
its pages a faithful record of the progress of British Botany, but 
by supplying to those who are occupied or interested in the great 
business of education, an additional means of enlarging and ex- 
ercising the perceptive, the combinative, and judging faculties of 
the human mind. 
An account of Localities of some of the rarer British Plants 
and others noticed in North Wales by Mr. Pampiin and Mr. 
Irvine, in September, 1854. 
Our tour, which was pedestrian in the strictest sense, began 
at Oswestry. We left London on the morning of the 12th, and 
reached Shrewsbury in time to look at the notabilities of that 
celebrated town. We left by an early train for Oswestry, which 
we reached between eight and nine o’clock a.m. There was 
