196 MR. D. OLIVER’S NOTES ON THE BRITISH 
Ав might be expected, Winch's Herbarium was rich in North 
of England plants; of these, his fasciculi of Roses and Willows 
were particularly extensive: it contained also many rare species 
from other quarters, received from his correspondents or collected 
by himself on his longer excursions. A second collection in the 
Society’s keeping was that of the late Dr. Withering, author of 
the ‘ Botanical Arrangement of British Plants,’ presented to the 
Society by Beriah Botfield, Esq., F.L.S., grandson of the Doctor. 
In this Herbarium, deserving of especial attention, was a series of 
specimens, many of them of infrequent or rare species, collected 
by the late Robert Brown, near the close of last century, in Scot- 
land and Northern Ireland. These are peculiarly interesting from 
the valuable notes which accompany them, in Mr. Brown’s hand- 
writing. They bear most striking testimony to the early deve- 
lopment of his well-known habits of close, sagacious observation 
and minute accuracy. These were mostly gathered from the year 
1791 to 1794, from about the eighteenth to the twenty-first years 
of his age. 
From these herbaria, and also from minor collections formed by 
Woodward, Relhan, Maton, Dickson, and Don, with packets contri- 
buted from time to time by various collectors, a considerable selec- 
tion of specimens has been made, and amongst them are several 
which, from their increasing rarity or actual disappearance from 
within our borders, or from other circumstances, are more particu- 
larly noteworthy. Of such we find Sonchus palustris, L. (Kent, 
Cambridge), Senecio paludosus, L. (Lakenheath), Frankenia pul- 
verulenta, L. (Sussex), Caucalis latifolia, L. (Newmarket), Cypri- 
pedium calceolus, L. (Castle Eden Dene, and Helk’s Wood, 
Ingleboro’), Carex Davalliana, Sm. (near Bath), Eriophorum 
alpinum, L. (Restennet, near Forfar, R. Brown), Elymus genicu- 
. latus, Curt. (near Greenwich, Dickson), Potentilla tridentata, Sol. 
(“ East Rocks, Loch Brandy," Don), Epimedium alpinum, L. 
(Hb. Withering, marked * Mr. Robson, from Skiddaw," &c., and 
Carrock Fell, Cumberland, 1787), Orchis hircina, Scop. (Dartford), 
and Anthemis anglica, Sm. (Sunderland, Robson *). 
Besides the collections above enumerated, which were examined 
in the course of last year, we have received recently from Mr. 
Salter the liberal present of the herbarium formed by his brother, 
the late Dr. T. B. Salter of Ryde: in addition to an admirable 
collection of British Rubi, very valuable in connexion with his 
* I note these as I find them, not forgetful of the observations upon some of 
{пет in ‘ Cybele Britannica,’ 
