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Common Name. 
Bur-reed .. 
Simple Sparganium 
Lesser Duckweed 
Ivy-leaved ,, 
Greater cp 
Water Plantain ... 
Flowering Rush ... 
Common Arrowhead 
_ Common Frogbit.., 
Sweet Flag & 
_ Creeping Scirpus .. 
Carex 3... ce 
Reed Digraphis 
FLOWERING PLANTS 
MONOCOTYLEDONS. 
Natural Order. 
oe ; Typhacese 
Technical Name. 
Spargamum ramosum 
mi ee Semple 
_ Lemna minor 
»  trisulea 
» polyrrhiza 
Alisma plantago 
Butomus umbellatus | Alismaceze 
* Sagittaria sagittifolia ... 
Hydrocharis Morsus-rance Hydrocharidex 
Iris pseud-acorus - Iridacese 
Scirpus palustris 
Many species ., 
Digraphis a ‘undinacea _ 
ee \ Lemnaceze 
a \ Cyperacese 
Floating Poa Poa fluitans a Graminez 
The above list shows that the habit of a plant is independent of 
its Natural Order (p. 5). The thirty-eight plants here enumerated 
belong to no less than nineteen different Orders. 
It should also be noticed that more than one-third are Mono- 
- cotyledons (p. 81). 
IT. OBSERVATIONS ON Woops at Brrpiip, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 
BY CHELTENHAM LapiEs’ CoLLEGE FrELp Cxup. 
Date.—May 23. 
Tvme.—Two hours. 7 
Number of Gurls.—Ten. Under the guidance of a teacher of 
botany and a teacher of ‘geology. 
_ Method.—The nature of the observations to be made was 
explained some days before, and each girl was required to bring 
a copy of the ordnance map of the area to be investigated and a 
notebook. Only those who knew the names of common plants 
were allowed to take part in these observations. Having arrived at 
the wood, an area was selected, and each girl outlined this in her - 
map. Then the aspect was roughly determined by observation of 
the sun; the general appearance of the selected area, its slope, the 
nature of the soil, were all noted and entered on the spot in the 
notebooks. Next the dominant species was determined, then the 
girls dispersed over the given area, picking one specimen of each 
plant forming the undergrowth. A list was then made by com- 
paring all the plants gathered: (1) of secondary shrubs, if any ; (2) 
of herbs forming the undergrowth. | 
Three different areas were investigated on May 23. These may 
be called A, B, and C. 
A was. about three-quarters of an acre in extent, its aspect 
