248 SHORT NOTES. 



447. Herbarium and diaries in Norwich Museum. Pritz. 

 277; Jacks. 260; R. S. C. v. 382; Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. 

 Soc. ii. 420 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1859-60. xxix. 



Salmon, William (1645-1712) : b. 1645 ; d. 1712. M.D. Prof. 

 Med. ' Botanologia : English Herbal,' 1710. Appears to have 

 been in Carolina and Virginia, and to have collected round 

 Lynn and London. Pult. i. 185 ; Pritz. 277 ; Jacks. 30 ; Wadd, 

 138 ; Garth's ' Dispensary.' Portr. by White, 1667, in Herbal ; 

 one by W. Sherwin, 1670, in ' Polygraphias ' ; one engr. 

 Burnford, 1681, in 'Synopsis Medicinse ' ; and one, 1685, in 

 'Polygraphicse.' 



Salt, Henry (circ. 1785-1827) : b. Lichfield, circ. 1785 : d. between 

 Cairo and Alexandria, 30 Aug., 1827. F.L.S., 1812. F.R.S. 

 Secretary and draughtsman to Lord Yalentia in India and 

 Africa, 1802-1805. Travelled in Abyssinia, 1805 and 1810. 

 ' Voyage to Abyssinia,' 1814. Plants given to Banks and now 

 in Hb. Mus. Brit. ; enumerated by Brown in Appendix to 

 Voyage, lxiii. Algae sent to Dawson Turner ('Fuci,' iv. 38). 

 Life and Correspondence, by J. J. Hall, 1854 ; Hoefer ; Michaud. 

 Saltia Brown. 



Salt, Jonathan (fl. 1796-1810). Of Sheffield. F.L.S.. 1797. 

 Discovered Carex elongata in 1807. " A most assiduous inves- 

 tigator of the vegetable creation," Smith. Contributed to 

 E. Bot. (358, 598, 648, 1920, 2018). 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 

 Crepis taraxacifolia in Sussex. — I send some plants of Crepis 

 taraxacifolia, new, so far as I know, to E. Sussex, as well as tins 

 district. It was first noticed in some rough pastures on the western 

 edge of Pevensey Marsh, where the ground begins to rise by a path 

 which rims from "Willingdon Schools to east end of Balton Decoy, 

 by R. B. Postans, Esq., of this town. It w T as growing in con- 

 siderable quantity all over one field and in fair abundance in the 

 otber. The locality is about three miles from Eastbourne, towards 

 Polegate.— F. C. S. Roper. 



POTENTTLLA MACULATA PoillT. IN DUMFRIES. Mr. TllOmbuin 



Johnstone has sent me a specimen of this plant from the hills near 

 Moffat, where it occurs over a limited area at from 1600 to 1750 ft. 

 Its occurrence is interesting, as it forms a connecting station 

 between there in Cheviotland and the Higblands. With or near 

 it are found Ajiiga pyramidalis and Saxifraga nivalis. — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



Merionethshire Plants. — A fortnight's visit to Barmouth, 

 Merioneth, last June, enabled me to secure the following species 

 not yet recorded for the county. A road from Barmouth follows 

 the Mawddoch Estuary to Dolgelley, by the side of which occur a 

 few plants of Papaver Argemone, and. more commonly, (J cranium 



