VOL. XIX. (2) 
APPENDIX 
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REPORT (No. 6) ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN CONNECTION WITH 
THE FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
By the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, M.A. 
It is within the knowledge of some Members of the Club that there is a 
proposal to draw up a preliminary account of the Flora of the County, as 
a stage preparatory to a fuller and more worthy volume on the subject. The 
advantages of such a Preliminary List are, first, to give to workers a clear view 
of the actual progress accomplished, and, secondly, to enable us with the least 
possible waste of effort to fill up gaps in our knowledge, and, thirdly, to pro- 
vide, by means of blank pages, a convenient form of record for new finds. If 
copies of such a list are distributed among working botanists of the county, 
and left in their hands for not too long a period, a great step will be taken 
towards securing results such as we desire. 
With regard to actual progress during the past two years, certain new 
localities have been searched, chiefly in district 7, by means of the hard work 
done by such botanists as Messrs. Knight, Greenwood, Haines and Day, and 
myself, while others have gone on steadily gaining further knowledge of 
parts of the county already known in some degree. More especially, a begin- 
ning has been made in systematic study of the part of district 7 which lies 
close to the borders of neighbouring counties, with some most satisfactory 
results, especially in critical genera. 
Meanwhile, the work of getting into order material for the Flora already 
to hand is proceeding apace. Within a year, or at the most two, if all goes 
well, the manuscript ought to be ready for the Preliminary List. This makes 
it desirable that workers should at once send in to the editor (Rev. H, J. 
Riddelsdell, Wigginton, Banbury) all records up to date, and all that they may 
add, until the Preliminary List appears. Will workers kindly note this, and 
will they also oblige by arranging their records in the order of the London 
Catalogue Ed : X ? 
A few finds of interest ought to be made known to the Club before they 
appear in print ; and ought to be printed in Gloucestershire first rather than 
elsewhere. A good number of new records in brambles have been made, 
chiefly by Mr Day and myself. A piece of heathy ground in the parish of 
Todenham to which Mr Knight led me, has proved of great interest. Rubus 
nemoralis, R. hostilis, R. incurvatus and others have been found there or there- 
about. A water crowfoot. Ranunculus sphosrospermus, Hiem, has been found 
in several streams in East Gloucestershire. The violets sent by me recently 
to Mrs Gregory have shown the neighbourhood of Tidenham, and more par- 
ticularly a larchwood opposite Mr Butt’s house, and belonging to him, to be 
extraordinarily rich in species, forms, varieties, and hybrids. Viola canina x 
sylvestris, and Riviniana x lactea, and V. canina var. pusilla, var. lanceolata, var. 
crassifolia, V. Riviniana var. diversa, and, above all, a probable V. rupestris 
var. glabrescens occur there ; and some of the same forms elsewhere, even in 
East Gloucestershire. V. rupestris is a species found hitherto only in Tees- 
dale, and if Mrs Gregory’s determination should, on further investigation, 
stand (and further and better specimens only confirm her opinion), it 
will serve still further to strengthen the curious link which already exists 
between the Flora of Gloucestershire and that of alpine and sub-alpine 
districts of these islands (cf. Lycopodium complanatum, Stachys alpina, etc.). 
