of a Local Flora. 429 
and accordingly, we always take the certificates of species; being 
" truly indigenous/' " undoubtedly wild," " fur from houses/'fcand 
so forth, with some grains of reservation or qualification. 
That all botanists will agree with our views, as to the most eli- 
gible form for local Floras, we are not confident enough to hope, or 
ignorant enough to expect. Those heretofore published exhibit 
sufficing proofs of striking dissimilarity between the ideas of their 
respective authors. What appears to us to be one of the simplest 
and best models for a local Flora, among those hitherto published, 
occurs in a recent Natural History of Yarmouth, by the brothers Pa- 
get. This is merely a list of species, arranged according to the na- 
tural method, without references or descriptions ; the names being 
made to correspond with those used in Hooker's British Flora. 
The usual situations and comparative frequency of the species are 
almost always intimated ; and a few localities, for the rarer kinds, 
are particularly specified ; all such being understood to be inserted 
on the responsibility of the authors, unless other authority is ex- 
pressly mentioned. The whole list of the phaenogamic plants is 
thus comprehended in about thirty octavo pages. Woodford's Ca- 
talogue of Plants near Edinburgh is also very simple, being a list 
of species, with one or more localities for each ; localities, verified 
by the author, being distinguished from the others, and the names 
being adapted to the works of Smith, Hooker, and Greville. The 
Flora of Bath corresponds with that for Yarmouth, but the English 
names are added, and also a very few references and descriptions, 
where particularly necessary. The phaRnogamic plants, of these 
two latter works, are contained in about sixty small pages. The 
Floras of Glasgow and Tunbridge Wells are catalogues of species, 
having both the technical and English names ; also the times of 
flowering, situations, comparative frequency, and some specified 
stations. In the former work, the duration of the species is added, 
and in the latter, references to the figures of English Botany. In 
these works, the phaenogamic plants fill a hundred and fifteen pages. 
The Catalogue of Anglesea plants, in Welsh Botanology, is nearly 
on the same plan ; but we have here the addition of the Welsh 
names of plants, and the omission of references to figures, as well 
as the equally unnecessary notices of the duration of the species. 
All the preceding may be called Floral Catalogues ; and they do 
not in any way claim to be descriptive lists. The Floras of Oxford 
(Sibthorpe), Bedford, Cambridge, Lanark, Edinburgh, and Berwick, 
are on a much more extended scale ; including descriptions, refe- 
rences, synonyms, and other matters, such as we look for in the Flo- 
