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Average excess % of 3 Continentals in 4 and 5 over 7 = 22/ . 
— Average excess % of Mediterranean and 3 Oceanic in 4 and 
5 over 7 = 64 % . 
Table XTII shows the 2 groups with Littoral species ex- 
cluded. Here both graphs are flatter, and 
— 15% of species approaching from E. could not cross Cots- 
wolds and had to find their way round. 
— 30% of species approaching from S.W. were unable to 
ascend Cotswolds, though they found their way round to 
counties to the east. 
— Therefore Cotswolds have been a greater barrier by 15 % to 
the eastward passage of southern species than to the west- 
ward passage of eastern species. 
Table XIV Analysis shows ; — 
— The first seven Elements show nearly equal percentages for 
Gloucestershire and Britain. 
— The three chief Continental Elements are largest for both. 
— % of total Continental Elements are the same in both. 
— % of total Oceanic Elements are the same in both. 
— This indicates that Gloucestershire is botanically a Midland 
county, being a meeting place of two sets of ecological 
factors, and so of the representatives of these, tlie Continen- 
tal and the Oceanic Elements. 
W. R. Price. 
UNCOMPLETED MANUSCRIPT OF THE “FLORA OF THE RUGBY DISTRICT’’. 
This was coin])iled while the author was at school, and will be 
published in parts as supplements to the Annual Reports of 
the Bugby School Natural History Society. 
D. E. Allen. 
BOTANICAL CARTOONS. 
Examples were exhibitc'd from two of the books containing a 
remarkable series of cartoons by “ A. Carex ” issued in Berlin 
in 1870. 
Leiden und Freuden des Botanikers, Part 1, illustrating 
“ Sorrows and Joys of Botanists,’’ was one of the books shown. 
Each cartoon caricatures an experience familiar to all in- 
terested in plants — the one selected for display being No. 14, 
“ Das schoenste Exemplar so nahe und doch nicht zu errei- 
chen ” (the finest specimen so near and yet out of reach). 
The other book chosen for exhibition was Illustrationen zur 
deutschen Flora, Ed. 2, in which each cartoon caricatures one 
or two species of phanerogams. The example shown portrays 
a nodding stone-mason by his work. No. 40 in the book, and 
neatly represents Saxifraga cernva L. 
J. E. Lousley. 
