iv PREFACE. 
to explain here what portion of the Flora is French’s work— 
first, he had copied out all the localities in Sibthorp’s and 
Walker’s Floras, and Gulliver’s and Beesley’s Banbury Lists, 
and all the Oxford references in the three editions of Ray’s 
Synopsis, in the Old and New Botanist’s Guide, the Phyto- 
logist, and the Journal of Botany. Secondly, the Oxford plants 
in the Herbaria of the British Museum and the Pharmaceutical 
Society, and in two or three private Herbaria had been noted. 
Thirdly, he had included all his own records. 
In this Flora, all French’s personal records will be quoted 
with his name attached, but, for the sake of brevity, the records 
in the first and second sections will not be so distinguished ; 
the reader, it is trusted, will bear in mind that these records 
are quoted through French. I have merely checked and if 
necessary corrected them. The foregoing will show in what 
way, and to what degree I am indebted to his MSS. 
This Flora will enumerate about 400 species and varieties 
not mentioned in Sibthorp’s or Walker’s Floras, a large propor- 
tion of these, it is scarcely necessary to say, being plants of 
casual occurrence. 
For allowing me to search the Herbaria preserved in the 
Oxford Botanical Garden, I must tender my sincerest thanks 
to the Professor and Curators; the Library, rich in the 
Botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries, was also 
most kindly rendered accessible. To the Keepers of the 
Radcliffe, Bodleian, and Merton Libraries I am also indebted. 
Mr. W. H. Baxter places me under obligation by his permission 
to consult the Herbarium and MSS. (now incorporated in the 
University collection) of his father, Mr. W. Baxter. To 
Mr. H. Boswell I owe many thanks for an extensive set of 
notes on local Botany and for his Moss Flora, and to Miss 
Beatrice Taylor for a large list of Fungi. Valuable aid has 
also been rendered by Mr. Thos. Beesley, Mr. H. E. Garnsey, 
