Additions to the Flora of Herefordshire

RECORDS OF HEREFORDSHIRE PLANTS ADDITIONALTO THOSE PUBLISHED IN THE FLORA OFHEREFORDSHIRE.By Rev. AUGUSTIN LEY.IT is with great pleasure that we find ourselves in a position to publish in theTmnsactions of the Woolhope Club some facts relating to the Flora of the Countyadditional to those brought together in the Flora of Herejordshi1·e. More thanfive years have elapsed since the publication of the Flom; and the anticipationsformed at the time of its publication that it would rather quicken than retardbotanical investigation in the County have been amply borne out by the fact thatafter five years we have 15 fresh species of Flowering Plants, 31 of Mosses, and 39of Fungi, making in all an addition of 85 species and well-marked varieties torecord for a county in which so much work had been previously done; besidesadditional facts and recards with regard to plants previously known and recordedas belonging to Herefordshire. Of the latter class of records, a large numberhave been made in the five years; and selections of these are here thought worthyof being transferred to the Transactions of the Woolhope Club to the number ofrather over 1,000.Among the groups of plants to which especial attention has been paid sincethe publication of the Flora, may be mentioned the Cinquefoils of the reptans­Tormentilla group; the Hybrids of the Willow-herb and Thistle genera, and theBurdocks. Some work, it is hoped, will be found to have been done in each ofthese groups of plants, and we here acknowledge with thanks the ready helpafforded by Rev. E. S. Marshall, M. A., F.L.S., in naming the first two of theseinteresting series of plants. The result is that Herefordshire has proved rich inthe Potentilla-hybrids ; all the forms hitherto known to Britain having beenfound in the County.The group to which the attention of Herefordshire botanists needs nowespecially to he directed is that of the Willow-hybrids, in which much good workhas been done since the publication of the Flom by Dr. F. Buchanan White,F.L.S., and by the Revs. W. and E. F. Linton, which has not yet been broughtto bear upon the Herefordshire Flora.One other critical genus remains for mention-Rubus-: and here theextension of knowledge in the past five years, both with regard to new forms,and those previously known to inhabit Herefordshire, is so great that we havebeen compelled to exclude the genus from this paper, and to leave it over forseparate treatment, which will not, it is hoped, be delayed for any great lengthof time.1