196 MR. D. OLIYER's JSOTES on the BRITISH 



As might be expected, Winch's Herbarium was rich in North 

 of England plants ; of these, his fasciculi of Eoses 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., E.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 Eobert 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. 



Erom these herbaria, and also from minor collections formed by 

 Woodward, Eelhan, 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 pakistHs, L. (Kent, 

 Cambridge), Senecio paludosus, L. (Lakenheath), Franhenia pul- 

 verulenta, L. (Sussex), Oaucalis latifolia, L. (Newmarket), Cypri- 

 pedium calceolus, L. (Castle Eden Dene, and Helk's Wood, 

 Ingleboro'), Carex Davalliana, Sm. (near Bath), JEriopliorum 

 alpinum, L. (Eestennet, near Eorfar, E. Brown), Elymus genicu- 

 latiis, Curt, (near Greenwich, Dickson), Potentilla tridentata, Sol. 

 (" East Eocks, Loch Brandy," Don), Epimedium alpinum, L. 

 (Hb. Withering, marked " Mr. Eobson, from Skiddaw," &c., and 

 CarrockEell, Cumberland, 1787), Orchis hircina, Scop. (Dartford), 

 and AntJiemis anglica, Sm. (Sunderland, Eobson*). 



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 Eyde : in addition to an admirable 

 collection of British Bubi, very valuable in connexion with his 



* I note these as I find them, not forgetful of the observations upon some of 

 them in ' Cybele Britannica,' 



