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A BOTANICAL REPORT FOR 1905. 

 By FRKD. HAMII^TON DAYEY, F.L.S. 



fBmd 13th Decemhr, 1905 J. 



After the satisfactory report on the progress of botanical 

 research in Cornwall which I was able to lay before the last 

 annual meeting of this Institution, it may be questioned if 

 anyone expected startling additions to our flora during 1905. 

 Although there can be no finality to work of this kind, the time 

 must come in connection with the investigation of the flora of 

 any county when it will be impossible in any one year to increase 

 the list of flowering plants by a dozen species, as was done m 

 Cornwall during 1904, or by even a half that number. And yet 

 to-day, thanks to the zeal of a few trained workers, I am able to 

 add thirteen species to ovir already extensive list, as well as 

 nearly a score of interesting varieties. Nor does the tale of our 

 work end with this statement. East and west, north and south, 

 our hills and valleys have been so carefully explored that the 

 range of many of our one-locality and rare plants has been 

 considerably extended. Four or five species which were formerly 

 thought to be confined to the Lizard peninsula have been found 

 as far away as Falmouth, Forth Towan and Cubert ; and a few 

 others which my " Tentative List " credits with just two or three 

 localities are now known to flourish in the most distant parts of 

 the county. 



In many respects our work this year has been conducted on 

 more systematic lines than were previously observed. To this I 

 attribute much of our unexpected, and almost vmprecedeuted, 

 success. If there was one part of the county which more than 

 any other needed mile b}' mile investigation, it was that portion 

 of the north coast, with fertile valleys and wide expanses of 

 downs running inland, lying between Newquay and Hayle, and 

 my own researches in that tract have been largely supplemented 

 by the untiring lal)0urs of such careful botanists as I)r, Yigurs, 

 Mr. William Tresidder, Mr. W. Borlase, Mr. E. Eichards, Mr. 

 J. W, Jones, Dr. Drabbles and Miss Hilda Lake. 



