BOTANY My principal authority, besides the invaluable help derived as above from Mr. H. C. Watson's Topographical Botany, 1883, ^^^ been a list of South Rutland plants (with particulars as to habitat, time of flowering, and other information) to be found in the Uppingham School Magazine of 1873-4; the work of a very careful botanist, Mrs. J. C. Thring. I am also greatly indebted to the admirable work, of Miss H. TroUope of Empingham, of the Misses Wingfields of Market Overton, of Miss J, M. Tryon, and Lady Frances Cecil, whose local information was most valuable, of Miss Essex Finch, Miss Cooper, and other members of the Botanical Section of the Rutland Archaeological and Natural History Society. Also, as more particularly connected with Uppingham and its neighbourhood, I have to thank Mr. T. Bell, Miss S. Thring, and Mrs. F. E. Hodgkinson. Without the aid of Mrs. J. C. Thring and Miss H. Trollope this article could hardly have been compiled. It only remains to explain the principles which have guided me in filling up the following list of Rutland flora. Where other collectors or I myself have known a flower to be flourishing in Rutland there has been no difficulty. But Rutland is so small that one can hardly take a walk without stepping over the borders into some neighbouring shire, and if the flower has been found just over the border (e.g. in Wakerley, Duddington, Owston, Mirabel Woods, Holywell, &c.), it is recorded here. Species occurring in Mr. Watson's book as thriving in all counties or in Leicestershire (with Rutland), Northamptonshire, and South Lin- colnshire, as described above, but which are not recorded by a collector for Rutland, are placed within square brackets. They are probably to be found in the county, and are worth searching for. In the case of a common English flower, it is marked 'gen. dist. ' (generally distributed); otherwise the letters A, B, C (see p. 20), denoting the botanical districts, are given. If it is to be found throughout Rutland but requires some searching, all three districts are named; * indicates doubtful wild species; and i" denotes that the plant has not been found of recent years. PHANEROGAMIA Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae {continued) Clematis vitalba (Traveller's Joy). A, C Ranunculus aquatilis (Water Crowfoot). Gen. Thalictrum flavum (Yellow Meadow Rue). dist. A, B, C [ — circinatus] — minus (Lesser Thalictrum). C — hederaceus (Ivy-leaved Crowfoot). A Anemone Pulsatilla' (Pasque-flower). At, — sceleratus (Celery-leaved Crowfoot). A, C B, C — Flammula (Lesser Spearwort). A, B, C — nemorosa (Wood Anemone). Gen. dist. — Lingua (Great Spearwort). C — auricomus (Wood Crowfoot, Goldilocks). ' Anemone has the o long. It is too late to try -H', ^^l' --. r ,^ to remedy the false accent. But c/emMs, arbutus, — ^cns (Meadow Crowfoot). Gen. dist. bxalis, Oenothera, and some others might still be saved. — repens (Creeping Buttercup). Gen. dist. The A. Pulsatilla is specially marked ' Rutland ' by — bulbosus (Bulbous Crowfoot). Gen. dist. Mr. Watson. — parviflorus (Small-flowered Crowfoot). A 23
