206 AN ADDRESS BY THE EDITORS. 
the editorial management of the ‘ Phytologist.’ Our motto is, 
and will be, Nullius addicti jurare in verba magistri; “ Impar- 
tiality, justice to all.’ But as we grow older we get more expe- 
rience, and the fruit of experience is, or should be, wisdom, and 
wisdom consists in making the most of our resources. Hence 
we are disposed to make some additions to the ‘ Phytologist,’ and 
these will be of such a nature as will enable our contributors and 
correspondents to aid us more efficiently in making our Journal 
conducive to the progress of science and a genuine medium of 
communication between British botanists. 
We are indebted to a friend for the improvement we propose 
to introduce, and we will not “ plough with another man’s heifer ” 
without duly stating our obligations. A list of all common Bri- 
tish plants will be entered in some future number of the ‘ Phyto- » 
logist ;? that is, of all such as are common both to Cornwall and 
Caithness, and where soil, situation, and other essentials are pre- 
sent, may be expected to occur in every county or even in every 
parish between the Land’s End and John O’Groat’s. When our 
kind contributors make out lists of species occurring in their 
respective vicinities we hope they will notice this list, and enter 
in their list, intended for us, such plants only as do not appear in 
our list of supposed or presumed universally distributed species. 
Excepting in such cases as the following, viz. when the plant we 
suppose common is scarce with them or absent, we hope they 
will state these facts, that our lists of such supposed universally 
distributed species may be amended. _ 
We intend printing lists of plants peculiar to the eastern and 
western coasts, or rather divisions of the island ; and we will then 
request our kind friends to verify or amend these as the case 
may be. We have, we own, some twinges of conscience when we 
think of long lists of plants inflicted upon our readers, and our 
sole guietus is that at present this is unavoidable. We hope that 
the publication of the lists above mentioned will remedy this 
complaint. The lists may be, for distinction’s sake, marked 
A, B, and C: the first contaiming all the plants presumed to 
occur over the whole area of Great Britain ; the second such as 
are eastern species, comprehending the Germanic, or English, or 
British types of distribution ; third, the western plants, whether 
of the Atlantic, the English, or British types; a fourth list, in. 
clusive of species which have an extensive vertical range, or which 
