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IT is remarkable that so important a botanical area as the county of Gloucestershire should have had to await for so long the consummation of an account of its flora. The project was first conceived by the late Prof. Boulger some seventy years ago, and he had by 1878 compiled a list of more than a thousand species from this area. Nevertheless, except in respect of the Bristol region and casual records, very little real progress was again made until the impetus given by the Rev. W. Butt in 1905, and from 1908 to the time of his retirement by the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, who compiled what constitutes the main substance of the present work. But, though belated, the outcome is a Flora that is worthy of the botanical wealth which it enshrines.
Flora of Gloucestershire
Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptogams, Charophyta. Edited by the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell G. W. Hedley W. R. Price Pp. clxxxii+667+44 plates. (Cheltenham: Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, 1948.) n.p.
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SALISBURY, E. Flora of Gloucestershire. Nature 163, 193 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163193a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163193a0