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ON A THIRD ANNOTATED COPY OF RICHARD 
WARNER’S “PLANTAE WOODFORDIENSES.” 
BY PERCY THOMPSON -cBeLios 
[Read 27th October, 1923.] 
HAVE on previous occasions! described two interleaved 
and annotated copies of Warner’s Plantae Woodfordtenses 
which came to my notice, and which proved to have been the 
work and property of, respectively, Benjamin Meggot Forster 
and Edward Forster, of Walthamstow, two of three brothers 
all of whom were interested, some century or more ago, in the 
local flora of the Epping Forest district. 
A third annotated copy of Warner’s book has since come 
into my hands, and this I propose to discuss with a view to de- 
termining the authorship of the notes written in manuscript 
on the interleaved blank pages. 
The volume was noticed by me on the shelves of the valuable 
Library of the Saffron Walden Literary and Scientific Institution 
during the visit paid by the Club to that town at Easter, 1922; a 
cursory inspection suggested to me that a connection of the volume 
with the Forsters of Walthamstow was probable : and accordingly 
I asked and obtained permission to borrow the, book and to 
investigate its history. 
It is crown octavo, bound in whole buff leather, with tooled 
panels on sides and raised bands on back. The title on a black 
name-band (apparently not original) is  anglicised into 
WARNER’S PLANTS OF WOODFORD, while the original 
red date-band is lettered ‘“‘ LOND. 1771.” 
The volume contains the “ Appendix,” the “indexvoisune 
English Names,’’ and the ‘‘ Errata,’ but not the “ Index of 
the Latin Names ”’ nor the ‘‘ Additions’ of 1784; it is, there- 
fore, certainly the original edition of 1771, as indicated by the 
date on the binding. 
The interleaved blank pages of handmade paper bear occa- 
sional fragments of a water mark which appears to be capable 
of reconstruction into a conventional fleur-de-lys bound by a 
triple band: the printed pages show no water mark. 
1 Essex NATURALIST, XJX., P. 72 et seq.; ibid., p. 221 et seq. 
