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are missing for a hundred years, and no coat of arms for 
Kingswood is, I believe, known. 
It is of interest, in addition to the above, to have discovered 
the name of the excellent maker of the effigies at Berkeley of 
Henry, Lord Berkeley, and his lady. The whole monument 
(1612) is by Samuel Baldwin, of Stroud, a forgotten artist and 
the maker of other local effigies, since broken or lost. 
St. Clair Baddeley. 
VII. The County Flora. 
When Mr. Butt in 1908 asked me to undertake the compila- 
tion and editing of a Flora of Gloucestershire, he thought that 
the work could be finished in four or five years. I had to 
assure him that a delay of some fifteen years was more probable 
than any shorter time ; but, if the conditions of trade permit, 
it seems likely that at any rate the preliminary Flora will be 
ready in MS. before 1923 ; and this in spite of hindrances 
caused by the war. 
The delay is inevitable in producing a big Flora ; a book 
published in 1912 or 1913 would have been most unsatisfactory. 
A large quantity of indispensable work has been done since 
then ; new and even startling discoveries are continually being 
made, the Lizard Orchis ( Orchis hircina) being one of them. 
A single plant of this extremely rare species was found in 
East Gloucester in 1917 by a lady staying at Birdlip. New 
light is being shed on the question of distribution : we are, 
c.g., getting much better ideas about the true area of the 
occurrence of Carex tomentosa, Thlaspi perfoliatum, Cephalan- 
thera rubra. These and similar facts (especially improved 
knowledge of critical forms) show well how much better it was 
to take a good time before publishing, and not to make a hasty 
plunge. 
We are all well aware, no doubt, that even after publication 
fresh material will frequently be forthcoming : supplements, 
