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lightened by the publication in the last volume of the 

 Society's Transactions, as well as in a separate form, of the list 

 of Flowering Plants and their allies compiled by Mr. E. D. 

 Marquand. While fully recognising the value of previous 

 lists and papers on the subject by Mr. Derrick and by Mr. 

 Marquand himself, which have appeared in our Transactions, 

 we may say that we have now for the first time since the 

 formation of the Society a list compiled by a competent 

 botanist from personal investigation, which furnishes a com- 

 plete record of the plants known to have occurred recently in 

 the Island up to the date of its publication. 



As a result of the publication of this list, the Section 

 has been enabled, by discoveries made during the fourteen 

 excursions made by the Society, at all of which it has been 

 represented, and by the finds of individual members, to add 

 the names of twenty-six plants to the Flora. A list of these 

 is appended to this report, and will form the supplementary 

 list ol additions for the year to Mr. Marquand's Flora. 



Turning now to the actual field work done at the Society's 

 excursions. This has mainly consisted in the collection of a 

 considerable proportion of the 362 species before referred 

 to, and in the discovery of six of the plants enumerated in the 

 list of additions. The Section has also been able on several 

 occasions to afford assistance to visitors joining the excursions 

 in their search for specimens. Finally, several cases of 

 suspected variation from the type in certain species have been 

 noted and partly investigated; such investigations, however, 

 require a long time — in some cases years — to carry out, and 

 the Section is not at present in a position to lay them before 

 the Society. 



A further important contribution to local botanical 

 research is the list of Mosses, Hepaticae and Lichens, presented 

 by Mr. Marquand at our September meeting, in which 142 

 Mosses, 38 HepaticaB and 243 Lichens are enumerated. This 

 list will, it is hoped, do for Cryptogamic what his list of last 

 year has done for Phanerogamic Botany. 



LIST OF ADDITIONS IN 1892. 



Ranunculus baudotii, Godr. Marshy field behind Ivy Castle (J. Groves 

 andE. D. Marquand). 



Ran. seeleratus, L. Vale Road, sparingly (Miss Dawber). Marshy field 

 behind Ivy Castle, several plants (E. D. Marquand). 



Nasturtium sylvestre, R. Br. Braye Road, east of the Vale Eoad, plenti- 

 ful on the roadside (E. D. Marquand). Melrose Estate, and rubbish heap 

 uear Ivy Castle (G. E. Derrick). 



Barbarea vulgaris, R. Br. Vfflette (III.), one plant (Miss Dawber). 



