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grifolia Banks & Sol.) "ex A. DC/'; both however are cited 

 by Hooker. The very small size of the specimens of G. magel- 

 lanica mislabelled D. lobata no doubt explains the confusion which 

 occurred. D. lobata Banks & Sol. thus represents two species, 

 as under : 



GUNNERA LOBATA Hook. f. 



Dysemone lobata Banks & Sol. Icon.! MSS.! et Herb, (pro parte)! 

 et ex Hook* f., 1. c. (pro parte). 



G. MAGELLANIC A Lam. 



Dysemone lobata Banks & Sol. in Herb. Mus. Brit, (pro maxima 

 parte) ! non Icon, et MSS. ; et in Herb. Vindob.). 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF FLINTSHIRE. 



By A. A. Dallman, F.C.S. 



Having devoted some considerable time to the elucidation of the 

 Flora of Flintshire (v.-c. 51), I have deemed it advisable to place 

 the results of such work on record. Comparatively little attention 

 has been devoted to the botany of Flintshire at any time, which in 

 this respect is perhaps one of the least known of the British coun- 

 ties. For the little which has been done regarding its botanical 

 productions we are chiefly indebted to J. E. Bowman, of Wrexham, 

 who contributed a number of Flint records to the New Botanists 1 

 Guide and Topographical Botany, and the late Robert Brown. The 

 latter compiled a useful list of " Flintshire Plants not recorded in 

 Edition II. of Topographical Botany," which appeared in this 

 Journal in 1885. Save a few scattered records nothing of any im- 

 portance has been published on the subject since that date. Brown's 

 herbarium is now in the Liverpool Museum, and includes a con- 

 siderable number of Flint specimens. This collection contains 

 some acceptable information, and also several plants hitherto 

 unrecorded for the county, and these are indicated in the follow- 

 ing list. 



The Flintshire records in Topographical Botany are largely 

 based ona" catalogue" of u plants seen in the county of Flint," 

 which was supplied to Mr. H. C. Watson by J. F. Robinson.* All 

 11 records " traceable to this source will be ignored by me, just as his 

 " catalogues" for Anglesey and Carnarvon plants— which are also 

 unfortunately incorporated in Topographical Botany — were rejected 

 by Mr. J. E, Griffith in the Flora of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire. It 

 is to be regretted that the second edition of Topographical Botany 

 is rather misleading. A number of Flintshire plants appearing 

 therein, and to which no authority is appended, are merely " re- 

 cords " of this same person, which have been extracted, minus the 



.[* For further information as to Robinson, see Journ. Bot. J904, 300.— Ed. 

 Journ. Bot.] 



