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Ondaatje, William Charles (d. 1888) : d. Eastbourne, Oct. 1888. 

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Ordoyno, Thomas (fl. 1807). Nurseryman. Of Newark. 'Flora 

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Oudney, Walter (1790-1824): b. near Edinburgh, Dec. 1790; 

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Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1816-1888) : b. Easingwold, Yorksh., 

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 Classical scholar. B.A., Camb., 1838. M.A., 1812. LL.D., 

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Palgrave, Thomas (c. 1805-c. 1869) : b. Norfolk, circ. 1805 ; d. 

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Palmer, Rev. S. (fl. 1829). Of Chigwell, Essex. Contributed to 

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(To be continued.") 



SHORT NOTES. 



A Potamogeton Note. — In this Journal for 1889 (p. 377), Mr. 

 G. C. Druce records, on the faith of a specimen in Herb. Sherard 

 at Oxford, that the " Potamogiton folio angusto pellucide fere 

 gramineo " of the 3rd ed. of Ray's ' Synopsis,' is a state of P. crispm 

 L. In the Linnean Herbarium is a specimen so named, with a 

 pencil note by Sir. J. E. Smith, " Fl. Brit. 86. 10. cjramineus Linn. ? 

 Not an original specimen." This specimen is, as Hartmann 



