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but where they occur in company, Ag Ti in light wooded 
spots on loamy soil, the bynes soame are also apt to be plentiful. 
“3. P. procumbens x reptans. . . . Basal a quinate ; stem 
creeping, rooting ; flowers sien showy, to some extent 4-partite, 
but principally §-partite ; stem-leaves stalked, stipules undivided.” 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE. 
By G. Crarmer Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 
Durine my residence in Oxford, dating from 1879, I have been 
working at the Flora of the above e county——unt til 1885, however, only 
in a secondary degree to that of Oxfordshire. On the completion of 
my Oxfordshire Flora, and hearing from Mr. Britten that he did not 
contemplate the continuance of the work inaugurated in his useful 
‘*Contributions towards a Flora of Berkshire,” which was printed in 
the Tr patois of the Newbury Field Club for 1871, I decided to under- 
take the task of completing a Flora of Berkshire. Miss amie gai d 
I have had but few Spsaniots and as some parts of the county are 
rather difficult of access to one living in the extreme corner, the 
distribution of all he. plants is by no means exhaustively investi- 
gated ; yet the salient features, at any rate, of its Flora have been 
made out durin my explorations of the last eight years 
the works of Turner, Lobel, Gerard, Parkinson, How, Merrett 
Morison, Ray, Dillenius, and the more recent authors. e 
herbaria of Dubois, Bobart, Sherard, Dillenius at Oxford; that of 
Sir Joseph Banks, as well as the British herbarium of the British 
Museum, and that of Sir James E. Smith in dhe po possession of the 
Linnean Society, have also been examined. Many valuable MSS. 
of Goodyer, Lightfoot, Wm, Browne, Dillenius, Sheffield, Baxter, and 
others have been placed under requisition, so that the forthcoming 
Flora will contain as far as possible all that is now known of the 
plants of the district. 
Perhaps it may be well to state that while many of the old 
authors are en in Britten’s ‘ Contributions,” a rather important 
list is omitted, i.e., that given in Dr. Mavor’s General View of the 
Agriculture of js published in 1 1809, which really forms the an 
of the County Flora, consisting as it does of — 500 speci 
many of whieh are localised; it contains, however, many er rors. 
The various species given in Britten’s “ Contibutions” have 
now, with comparatively few olakons, been verified by me. The 
following, up till the present time, I have not been she to find. 
These may be divided into four categories :— 
Ist. Plants of casual occurrence, or which were not indigenous, 
but were probably correctly recorded :—Anemone apennina 
@ copse = ingford, Baaxter. — Peonia officinalis L. This, 
which, according to How, in the Phytologia Britannica, occurred in 
a close a "Banana Th long ago disappeared, — Isatis tinctoria 
