400 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BBITISH ISLES. 



for the second edition of Gerard's Herbal, and that Goodyer and 

 Plot were doubtless well acquainted. My friend Mr Braggins, a well- 

 known expert on timber, tells me he bought nineteen trees of this 

 species which grew near Banbury in 1901. The largest of these was 

 estimated to yield about 168 cubic feet of timber, and the estimated 

 average was 121 feet, but to this may be safely added 20 per cent, for 

 bark and waste deduction, so that the average would be between 140 

 and 150 cubic feet. For timber purposes they were past their prime, 

 the longest trees opening very faulty in the centre. The wood is of 

 very good quality, easy to work, and of a different texture from the 

 Wych, Dutch, or English Elm, and has a general usefulness as a 

 substitute for Ash or Wych Elm. The name Locks Elm can 

 have no reference to any difficulty in working or dressing of 

 the wood. Can it be a corruption of " Plot's ? " The tree 

 which was illustrated in the Report has a girth at 4 feet from 

 the ground of 11 feet, and he estimates the contents of timber at 150 

 cubic feet, but the adjoining tree would, he thinks, yield 175 cubic 

 feet. It is about 85 feet high. There are also several trees near 

 Banbury, on the Northamptonshire side of the Cherwell. Some of 

 these are 80 feet high, and would yield about 125 feet of timber. Mr 

 Braggins says — " They should be more numerously planted, not only 

 on account of their beauty, but their usefulness as timber when full 

 grown, so that they would be specially useful in small clumps in parks 

 or on boundary hedges of coppices, but not in situations where they 

 are liable to be lopped, as lopping spoils the timber for any clean use." 



NOTE ON TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. 



North, or Lake Lancashire, is entirely detached from the rest of 

 the County Palatine by Morecambe Bay and a wedge of Westmorland. 

 The name Lake Lancashire was given it by Watson, who included it 

 with Westmorland in his vice-county 69. This is unfortunate, as it 

 is often impossible to say whether plants recorded for 69 occur in 

 one county only, or both. In view of the facts that North Lanca- 

 shire possesses an exceptionally rich flora — quite worthy of separate 

 treatment — and that ultimately a Flora of the whole of Lancashire is 

 contemplated, I would suggest that in future we adopt the very simple 



