INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATIONS. II 



pp. 221-225, an excellent list of the plants of the neighbour- 

 hood, drawn up by Mr. T. Gough, which he kindly revised 

 for me a few years ago. 



1835. Watson, Hewett Cottrell: 'New Botanist's Guide to 

 the Localities of the Rarer Plants of Britain,' vol. i. England 

 and Wales; vol. ii. Scotland, and Supplement, 1837. This 

 is substantially a new edition, brought up to date, of the 

 ' Botanist's Guide ' of Turner and Dillwyn. Mr. Watson, 

 who died in 1881, devoted himself during a long life to the 

 special study of the geography of British plants. His books, 

 of which the principal are ' Cybele Britannica ' and ' Topo- 

 graphical Botany,' extend over a period of forty years, and in 

 the present work I have followed up his methods and used 

 his zones of altitude and other generalisations. He stayed 

 for some time in the Lake district, in 1833, at Keswick, 

 Kendal, and Shap, and made copious notes on the plants, 

 which are now preserved at Kew along with his herbarium. 

 His observations on the altitudinal range of Lake plants are 

 printed in the ' Cybele,' vol. iv. p. 334. 



1835. Woods, Joseph, in Hooker's 'Companion to the 

 Botanical Magazine,' vol. i. p. 298, has a long paper called 

 'Notes of a Tour in the North of England in 1835,' which 

 relates chiefly to the Lakes. He had previously visited the 

 district in 1800, 1808, and 1814. He was the author of the 

 well-known ' Tourist's Flora,' and was the first to study care- 

 fully our indigenous roses, of which he published a monograph 

 in vol. xii. of the Transactions of the Linnsean Society. 

 Robert Brown named after him the fern-genus Woodsia. 



1836-1872. Hindson, Isaac, of Kirkby Lonsdale, during 

 these years worked at the flora of that neighbourhood. His 

 manuscript list of localities is now in my possession. 



1842-1854. In the old series of the ' Phytologist ' will be 

 found papers that relate to Lake botany, as follows : — In 

 volume ii., at p. 316, by J. Sidebotham; at p. 424, by 

 Borrer; at p. 375, by G. S. Gibson; and at pp. 422 and 



