214 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB ,1917 
page of print, for convenience of record, correction, and com- 
ment, and in the case of genera less critical than Ruhus, 
questions will be suggested, in order to aid research. 
This special class of plants — the Blackberries, etc. — was 
chosen for first publication, on several grounds. It has been 
worked at steadily and perseveringly by several hrst-class 
specialists, especially the Rev. A. Ley, the Rev. W. Moyle 
Rogers (who is the one safe English referee on the subject), 
Mr Shoolbred, and Mr J.W. White (the author of the “Flora of 
the Bristol Coalheld") as well as by other botanists less expert 
in the genus : and the results, though far from complete (and 
how can botanical records over such a large area ever be com- 
plete ?) are tolerably certain and undisputed, chiefly owing 
to the enormous advantage of Mr Rogers’s great knowledge 
being at our disposal. Thus, though to any but a keen worker, 
the list looks terribly dry — for it is a mere statement of locali- 
ties — yet even to the uninitiated it bears with it much hope 
and encouragement. It will also be plainly indicated by the 
list now published which are the most hopeful kinds of ground, 
and the most encouraging localities, to examine for further 
records of Ruhus. The Forest of Dean is second to none ; the 
high ground of Tidenham Chase, the flat tops and the slopes of 
wooded Cotteswold Hills, such as Cooper’s Hill and Haresfield 
Hill, must have further treasures to yield to a determined 
search. 
But, of course, when all is said and done, Ruhus remains a 
very special study ; specimens need careful collection and 
drying and annotating ; and it is unlikely that many general 
botanists will attempt to go far in it themselves. But, if a 
beginner may speak, it is by no means difflcult to get a good 
initiation into it, provided one goes armed with a good pair of 
scissors, a fair pocket-lens, Mr Rogers’s Handbook, and a zeal 
which scorns scratches. 
Two things remain to be said. The first is that the 
numbers, 33 and 34, which (one or both) appear here after the 
Latin name of a plant, refer respectively to the (conventional) 
East and West divisions of the County. The divisions are 
separated by the Stroudwater Canal as far as Framilode, and 
