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ing 191 species, and including many cryptogams, is given. 

 This list was supplied by the late Dr. Davies, of this city. 

 The works of most use to the Bath botanist of to-day are 

 the "Flora Bathoniensis," by Professor Babington, pub- 

 lished in 1834, and the supplement thereto, published in 

 1839. The number of species given in these works is 

 756. Mr. Blomefield, in the course of a very interesting 

 and able lecture on the "Bath Flora," delivered to the 

 members of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club, states that " many of these are unquestionably 

 mere varieties of others, while a few appear to have become 

 extinct, if they ever grew in the localities assigned to them, 

 and some other species were not mistaken for them.'' For 

 the convenience of those who possess, or have access to, 

 the " Flora Bathoniensis " and the Supplement thereto, there 

 are appended, with the kind permission of Mr. Blomefield, 

 two lists prepared by him. The first of these shows addi- 

 tions to the Bath Flora since the publication of the Sup- 

 plement, and the second gives a list of plants which have 

 either become extinct in the Bath district or were probably 

 inserted in the Bath Flora " by mistake." It is to be regret- 

 ted that the Rubi, Rosa, and Salices, have not been fully 

 worked out. Few things would, at the present time, be more 

 acceptable to local botanists than a full and critical Flora 

 of the Bath district. In a work like the present, it seems 

 desirable to give a list only of the rarer and more interesting 

 plants of the district, arranged in accordance with the third 

 edition of "The Student's Flora of the British Islands," 

 by Sir J. D. Hooker; referring to the Flora and Supple- 

 ment before-mentioned for particulars as to the localities in 

 which the plants may be found. A copy of Prof. Babington's 

 Flora and Supplement, as well as one of " Flora Bristoli- 



