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INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTKIHUTORS TO WATSONIA. 
PLANT NOTES 
Notes may be sent either to the Editor or to Mr A. J. Wilmott, 
British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, Loudon, S.W.7. 
Contributors are requested to keep to the foinn adopted in the recent 
Reports. These Notes in future will not include Systematic Abstracts. 
The Note should start with the B.F.L. number and name of the genus 
or species concerned. If the Note concerns one vice-county only, stai't 
the Note with this information, as is done with Plant Records. The 
name of the author of the Note is printed at the end in small capitals. 
It would be a great convenience if all Notes were prepared by different 
contributors on slips of the same size, that preferred being eight inches 
by five inches, the long edge to be treated as the top of the page. 
ABSTRACTS. 
Offers of assistance will be appreciated. They may be made either 
to the Editor or to Mr A. H. G. Alston, British Museum (Natural His- 
tory), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7. It would be a great convenience 
if contributors would send in their Abstracts, and any necessary Refer- 
ences for the Bibliography (which shoidd be on separate slips), on slips 
of uniform size, the size desired being eight inches bj^ five inches, the 
long edge to be treated as the top of the ]jage. A separate slip for each 
item permits the easy sorting of the MS. without the transcription 
which is otherwise too often necessarj' in the preparation of copy for 
the printer. The uniform slips can be easily filed and will be available 
for future reference, thus enabling the Editor to avoid repetition and 
to make helpful references to previous notes. 
The anther’s name should be followed by the reference, either in full 
or by date referring to the Bibliography. If several notes are abstracted 
from a single paper, first set down the “ reference ” in the Reports-, 
i.e. author’s surname, comma, initials, comma, date of publication, 
comma, title of work and (if from a serial publication) comma, followed 
by the name abbreviated) of the serial, the volume and pages (first and 
last). 
The abstractor is indicated by initials in square brackets at end of 
note. 
