Abstract: THE geological formation and the historical associations of the Quantock Hills have been abundantly investigated. Their natural productions, animal or vegetable, have aot yet, so far as I know, been described or catalogued, although they contain specimens in both branches of Natural History singularly rare and sought after, and though more than one zoologist or botanist of note gazes on them daily from the windows of his home. A paper whose conditions are that it should be.light and popular, and that it should not exceed ten minutes in the delivery, cannot throw much scientific light upon the plants of the most limited region; but it may reveal sources of enjoyment and raise individual enthusiasm, and it may remind this meeting that the time has possibly come, when our association should use the means at its command to encourage the gradual creation of such a flora and fauna of the county as no single naturalist, unassisted by a public body, can in any case trustworthily compile.