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BAGNALL’S FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
The Flora of Warwickshire. By Jas. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. London: 
Gumey and Jackson, 1891. 519 pp., with Map. 
Mr. Bagnall has achieved a good and great work and we heartily 
congratulate him upon its publication. His name as a botanist of 
no mean repute has been recognised for many years, and this, his 
crowning work up to the present, will, we are sure, long stand as 
a monument ‘more lasting than brass’ to his genius, perseverance, 
careful work and conscientiousness. 
In its arrangement, Mr. Bagnall has taken up pretty much the 
same lines as were followed in the ‘ Flora of West Yorkshire’ issued 
by the Y.N.U. in 1888. The date of the first record where it is 
known is given under each species, with references to ‘Topographical 
Botany, Purton’s ‘Midland Flora’ (1817-21) and Syme’s ‘ English 
Botany,’ followed by localities under each of the separate ro river 
basins, with authorities for the localities and in some cases dates. 
The type is good, and each genus and species being printed ina 
heavier letter renders them very easy of reference, which is also 
assisted by the head-lines on each page. The work includes, besides 
the flowering plants and ferns usually included in county floras, 
the Mosses, Hepaticee, Lichens, and Fungi (Hymenomycetes and 
Gasteromycetes) in the latter of which Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A., has 
een Mr. Bagnall’s collaborator. ; 
In reviewing this work we are naturally led to compare it with 
a similar Flora for a neighbouring county, that of Leicestershire, 
edited by Mr. F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S., and others, in 1886, but in 
doing this we find some discrepancies. 
Mr. Mott in his general summary gives the number of Leicester 
shire species as 1980, but he includes Alge (234 sp.), and these are 
not included by Mr. Bagnall, therefore, for comparison, they must 
be deducted, leaving Leicestershire 1744 as compared with 1023 
quoted by Mr. Mott for Warwickshire. Leaving out all the Acrogens 
€xcept the Vascular Acrogens, Mr. Mott’s figures are —Leicestershire 
Species 891; Warwickshire total species, 1017. Comparing this 
with Mr. Bagnall’s summary, we find his numbers for Warwickshire 
to be 1309, but of these 236 are varieties, leaving 1073, excluding 
_ Acrogens. Mr. Bagnall’s list, including varieties, is 2457. Mr. Mott’s 
estimate for Leicestershire on the same lines (excl. Alge) = 1901. 
Unfortunately, Mr. Bagnall’s are not consecutively numbered as are 
Mr. Mott’s, but we must leave these discrepancies to be accounted 
for by the respective authors. 
