NOTTC'KS TO MRMBFKS 
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should be made when proofs ai’e returned. Papers should be sent to the 
Editor, Dr. E. F. Warburg, University Department of Potany, South 
Parks Dead, Oxford. 
Pl.\nt Prcohds 
Peroi'ds* .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 ktiowu to be of purely local interest should not 
be sent. In cases of doubt on this point it is better to send the record, 
but the appropriate County Flora may be con.sulted. Special attention 
should be given to the recording of critical plants as in some County 
Floras they are not adequately recorded. If the plant belongs to a 
critical group the name of the specialist by whom it was determined 
must be given : if the plant has not been named by a specialist, a 
specimen must be sent for determination. Records in critical groups 
will not be published iinless this procedure has been followed. The 
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 vouchers may not be accepted. 
The following in.structions as to the method of drawing up records 
should be carefully noted. 
Use 5" X d" cards and type when po.ssible. Room should be left at 
the top and left hand side of the card, and between the lines, for any 
editorial correction that may be necessary: some cards have been 
received with the writing so closel.y compressed at the top of the other- 
wi.se l)laidv card that editing involved re-writing. Do not use capitals 
unless ijou make ahsol nfehj sure from the jirinfed Heport that you use 
them correctly: — i.e., for the plant name but not for the authority, 
and for the names of the finder, recorder and determiner when the 
I'ccord is an original one, but not when it is taken from some publication. 
In dealing with records from parts of vice-counties which have been 
transferred from one county to another since H. C. Watson’s time, 
the form 20 [Beds.] will be used, which indicates that the locality, 
thoiigh now in Bedfordshire belongs to v.-c. 20, as it was in Hertford- 
shire when the vice-count]i boundaries were fixed by Watson. 
When the record concerns an area dealt with by one of the standard 
County Floras, contributors, when they can, shoidd indicate in ( ) the 
number or letter of the subdivision of the county irsed in the Flora : this 
not only is of help to the Editors but will be of assistance to future 
revisers of such Local Floras. 
When, for some reason, the name following the vice-county number 
is not the name of the vice-county, as “55, (Rutland’’,) the name is 
placed in ( ). 
*It will be useful if National Grid Co-ordinates, made us accurate as is thought 
advisable, are added to all records. 
