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times ruWcU'ut'd liiiii In' proving of rarity. fn the course of sucli 

 endeavours to reach the bottom of problems that faced him he had 

 learnt to read at least six languages, and could converse in four. 

 He taught Spanish to his choir boys, knowing well that after English 

 it is the most widely spoken language in the world. 



Bucknall was an ideal companion on our collecting expeditions, 

 for his patience, sympathy, and tolerance of discomforts that ruHled 

 tlie nerves and temper of ordinary mortals, never failed. Kestricted 

 to an absence of two Sunday's or at most three, on account of his 

 engagements, we yet managed to reach Carinthia, the Apennines, 

 Naples, Sicily, the Baleares, and Southern Spain, travelling with 

 hand-baggage only to the farthest point planned in the shortest 

 j)ossible time. As may be sup]K)sed, we usually arrived, after days 

 and nights of dozing weariness, dishevelled, ravenous, and as black as 

 tinkers. Ke veiling till the last minute in the fine air, sunshine, and 

 novel vegetation, we hurried homeward in a like continuous rush. The 

 great War, of course, put a stop to it all, and onl}' one trip has been 

 undertaken since. This was in April of last year, when, in company 

 with the Kev. E, EUman, we went down the east coast of Spain from 

 'J arragona to Almeria and back by way of Aranjue/, Madrid, and the 

 Escorial. We had sixteen days' collecting, and brought away four 

 hundred species; perhaps the rarest of these was Far onychia hrevi- 

 stipulafa Lange, of which, according to Nyman, the only existing 

 example was in Lange's herbarium. On this, as on every occasion, 

 Ijucknall's instinct for kindness, for the comfort of others, showed 

 itself continually. If among the rooms allotted at an inn there was 

 one especially dark, small, and stuffy, he was instantly installed 

 therein, asserting that a small person was happier in a space that 

 corresponded. 



Without doubt Bucknall possessed the foundational virtues of 

 Christian character — faith in truth, a love of justice, and a hatred of 

 all forms of deceit or self-assertion. Now he has gone one feels with 

 sorrow that as a man and as a scientist he leaves a blank that must 

 remain unfilled. 



Jas. W. White. 



[The photograph here reproduced was taken in Bucknall's garden 

 in 1915.] 



SOUTHBYA NIGRELLA (De Not.) Spe. IN BRITAIN. 



By W. E. Nicholsox, F.L.S. 



While botanizing in Portland, Dorsetshire, early in November 

 1921, 1 gathered on the detritus in one of the disused quarries between 

 West Bay and the village of Easton a small quantity of CeplialozieUa 

 Baumgartneri Schffn., which was growing mixed with a small form 

 of Weisia calcarea C. M. On exaiiiining this material after my 

 return to Lewes, I found a single well-developed bifurcate stem of 



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