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NOTICES TO MEMBERS 
The following signs are used : — 
§ before the B.P.L. number : to indicate that the paragraph contains 
information necessitating a correction in an annotated copy of the 
Comital Flora. 
t before the B.P.L. number: to indicate that the plant is not a 
native species in the British Isles. 
t before the record : to indicate a native species which is not native 
in the locality recorded. 
* before the record : to indicate new vice-county records, not pub- 
lished previously to the issue of Watsonia. 
t before the record : to indicate records additional to an annotated 
copy of Comital Flora, published previously to the present issue. 
[ ] enclosing a record : to indicate doubt as to the validity of the 
record, either of identification or locality. 
It will be useful if, in future. National Grid Co-ordinates, made as 
accurate as is thought advisable, are added to all records. 
Records should be sent, if possible not later than the end of the 
year to which they belong, either to the Editor, Dr. E. F. Warburg, 
or to Mr. E. C. Wallace, 2 Strathearn Road, Sutton, Surrey. 
Records which are known to be of local interest only should not be 
sent. Should there be doubt on this point it is better to send the record. 
The appropriate County Flora should be consulted in this respect. 
Attention should be given to recording critical plants. In 
some County Floras these are not adequately recorded. If the plant 
belongs to a critical group, the name of the expert by whom it was 
determined must be given : if the plant has not been named by an ex- 
pert, a specimen must be sent for determination. Records in critical 
groups will not be published unless this procedure has been followed. 
Tke importance of either stating where the herbarium specimen is to 
be seen, or of sending the specimen with the record, cannot be over- 
emphasised. Records without von.chers may not be accepted. 
The following instructions as to the method of drawing up records , 
should be carefully noted. 
TTse 5x3 inch cards and type when possible. Room should be left 
at the top and left hand side of the card, and between the lines, for anv 
editorial correction that may be necessary: some cards haye been received 
so closely compressed at the top of the otherwise empty card that editing 
involved re-writing. But the lightening of work deserves the expres- 
sion of thanks to all who have assisted hv sending in cards completed as 
reouested in the past, and perhaps the few who did not will now follow 
suit. 
N.B. — Do not use capitals ("i.e. write, do not print) i/nlcs.s you malce 
ahsolutely sure from, the printed Peport that you use them rightly — i.e. 
for the plant name hut not for the authority, and for the names of the 
finder, recorder, and determiner when the record is a new one but not 
when it is taken from some publication. It is much more difficult to 
remove capitals wrongly used than to double-underline writing as in- 
