REGULATIONS OF THE CLUB. 
1. The object of the Botanical Exchange Club is to facilitate the 
exchange of dried specimens of British plants, especially of critical 
species and varieties. Anyone wishing to become a member will be 
admitted on payment to the Secretary of an annual subscription of 
Five Shillings, and on sending a parcel of dried plants in accordance 
with the subsequent rules. He will then be entitled to share in the 
distribution of specimens made in the early part of the year following 
that in which his subscription and parcel were sent. 
2. Specimens sent for distribution must be carefully dried ; must 
not exceed in size half-a-sheet of demy (16 by 10 inches) ; and must 
illustrate the species they represent as completely as possible. Plants 
more than sixteen inches long should be once or twice folded, if by so 
doing the roots can be preserved. (In the Cyperacece , Gramina, and 
smaller Ferns no specimens should be sent without roots, except in the 
case of very rare species, which might be in danger of extermination.) 
No plant must be sent that is not included in the list of desiderata for 
the current year, unless it be additional to those enumerated in the 
7th edition of the “London Catalogue of British Plants,” or be from an 
unrecorded station, or be an unrecorded variety. But up to the date 
at which the list of desiderata for the year is issued, the desiderata 
list of the preceding year remains in force, so that the plants collected 
before the appearance of the annual desiderata list will be received 
by the Club if they have been mentioned in the desiderata list of the 
previous year. 
