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in the tliird and fourth volumes of the " Phytologist " (first series) are 

 on similarly difficult groups. He is credited by (iibson with the 

 addition of nine species to the county list, in addition to the casuals 

 A/yssu»i calycimim and Lepidium draba. They are : — 



Ceratophyllum suhmersuni, 1833. 



Carex eiongata, 1 844. 



Filcigo apiculata, 1848. 



Guh'opsis ochroleuca, 1848. 



CE nan the pinipinelloides, 1 86 1 . 



Potamogeton rufescens, 1861. 

 And P. pnrlongKS, P. zosierifolius, and P. Jlabellatus, in 1861 or 

 1862. 



From this list we also gather that \'arenne had made some pro- 

 gress in botany and had at least visited St. Osyth as early as 1833. 

 He continued to annotate his copy of Gibson's Flora down to 1884. 

 These annotations will be utilised in the new edition of that work 

 and it is to be hoped that his manuscript cryptogamic matter will 

 also see the light. 



In politics he was an ardent Liberal, acting for several years as 

 secretary to the Kelvedon Liberal Association, and working very 

 hard to secure the return of his friend and neighbour. Sir T. B. 

 Western. For upwards of fifty years of his life he was a total 

 abstainer and he took a leading part in starting the local Band of 

 Hope. The Kelvedon (ias Company, of which he was at various 

 times both secretary and chairman, and other local institutions, shared 

 his public-spirited interest ; and since, though a Churchman, he was 

 a firm believer in unsectarian education and had an intense hatred of 

 anything savouring to his mind of bigotry, he acted for many years 

 as secretary to the British School. 



He was elected a member of the Essex Field Club on December 

 17th, 188 1, but it was always a matter of regret that no scientific 

 communications to the Club were ever received from him. His 

 features betokened the alertness of his mind : his grey hair curled 

 from a head by no means completely bald ; his high forehead, slightly- 

 arched and bushy eyebrows, and eyes whose brightness was not 

 concealed by his glasses, his afjuiline nose and somewhat large but 

 firm mouth all showed his strength of character ; whilst his full white 

 moustache, whiskers and beard lent to his features the gentleness of 

 age. His memory will long live in the affection of those who knew 

 him. The portrait accompanying this notice (Plate 11) is from 



