VOL. XIX. (3) 
RUB US IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
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RUBUS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
BY 
REV. H. J. RIDDELSDELL 
This list is printed for a particular purpose. It looks 
not so much to the past, as to the future. It does, indeed, 
embody certain results of long, strenuous, critical work already 
done : but its chief purpose is to ask for more, and to ask for 
it in the most useful way. In other words, it forms a first 
and typical instalment of the Preliminary List of Gloucester- 
shire Flowering Plants. For the Preliminary List is to do for 
the whole of the flowering plants of the county what this 
present list does for one genus only. Judge the whole from 
the part ! The purpose of the P.L. is to serve as an encourage- 
ment and help to those who have leisure and ability to procure 
further information about the County Flora. It should en- 
courage, for it will indicate how much has already been done. 
And it should help, and that in the best possible way, by 
showing exactly in what farts of the County further work is 
needed. And this not only with regard to general botanical 
research, for it indicates the gaps that exist in the records of 
each individual species and variety. Let us take the very first 
instance in the list now printed, viz., the common Raspberry, 
Rubus idcBus L. It is difficult to believe that it does not grow 
elsewhere in district 3, where much ground favourable to 
brambles exists ; or in the south part of district 6 ; or more 
frequently in 7b. In such places it should be looked for, and 
the records put down, and sent to the Editor. 
This Rubus list is only a sample, indeed ; other genera 
are equally ready — e.g., all up to Violacece — but it will be well 
to keep them back until the whole Preliminary List is ready. 
The latter, when printed, will have a blank page opposite each 
