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dates; and thus it is always consulted by writers on local botany. 
Mr. Prentice includes the same strawberry in his list of plants 
found in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham; whether Mr. Buck- 
man has it also in his ‘ Botanical Guide,’ cannot be ascertained 
here just now. At any rate, F’. elatior was reported in Gloucester- 
shire long before this present year of 1869 and by botanists fairly 
trustworthy. Nevertheless, in the Journal of Botany for July, 
1869, we find the Fragaria elatior included in a short list of 
“New Gloucestershire Plants, collected by Dr. St. Brody in 1868.” 
From that one county alone, and by that self-same botanist, a 
dozen or score of such easily contradicted asseverations about new- 
ness might be adduced. Such misleading statements would 
become utterly inexcusable in printed journals and other books, if 
there existed some ready means for ascertaining whether any given 
species had been already put on record for the county under con- 
sideration. But while no tabulated records specially for counties 
are available for consultation, there is some excuse for the 
ignorance of the mis-announcement, even in one who thus vir- 
tually announces himself thoroughly acquainted with the botanical 
records for his county. Obviously a most thorough knowledge 
must be first acquired, in order to warrant a printed assertion 
by any one that ‘I alone, I by myself I, have found this 
plant in this county.’ 
For the present, the less precise provincial enumerations in 
this Compendium, with the help of the subordinate divisions in 
the Supplement to the Cybele Britannica, seldom for single 
counties, are the best tabulated summaries available in cases 
where county floras or other more local lists do not yet exist 
elsewhere. And although many blanks may remain to be 
afterwards filled in, a continuance of the similar provincial nos. 
through the following List will not be unuseful. 
1. Ranuncunacexz. 
Thalictrum (minus) maritimum, Eng. Bot. ed. 8. 
Provinces ---4----- 10 11--1415-? And others also? 
Synopsis no. 38. The provinces are here indicated exclusively on 
the evidence of specimens in the herbarium of Mr. Boswell 
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