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including Blackstonia. He was a surgeon of Dudley, and an 

 enthusiastic botanist. Mr. Riley (fl. 1797), of Hamstall-Ridware, 

 also sent a list of plants to vol. ii. of Shaw's Stafordshire. W. Pitt 

 (1749-1823), author of Agricultural Survey of Staffordshire, 1794, 

 Topographical History of Staffordshire, 1817, sent notes to Wither- 

 ing's third edition, and to Shaw. He lived at Pendeford, Stafford- 

 shire, but afterwards removed to Edgbaston ; died 1823, and was 

 buried at Tettenhall. 



John Power (flourished 1778-1831). My only knowledge of 

 this botanist is that obtained from his many notes in a copy I have 

 of the Botanisfs Guide, 1805, which formerly belonged to him. 

 From one of these I learn that he had resided at Market Bosworth, 

 Leicestershire, and later at Polesworth, Warwickshire, and lastly 

 at Atherstone in that county, and also that he had attentively 

 studied the flowering plants of Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Lei- 

 cestershire, and incidently those of Derbyshire ; and had also paid 

 attention to the lichens of these counties and those of Derbyshire. 

 He seems to have been the author of the Calendar Flora of Market 

 Bosicorth. His herbarium, which bears dates from 1778 to 1833, 

 was presented years ago to the Holmesdale Natural History Club, 

 Reigate, many specimens of which I have, by the courtesy of Mr. 

 C. E. Salmon, seen ; and find the writing and records identical 

 with the records in my copy of the New Botanist's Guide. His 

 records are numerous, the more rare being Teesdalia, SteUaria 

 palustris, Potentilla argentca, Dorouicum Pardalianches, Limosella, 

 Utricularia vulgaris, Acorus, Nitella ffe.vilis. 



Rev. William Thomas Bree (1787-1863), Rector of Allesley, 

 was born at Coleshill, Warwickshire, in 1787. Made occasional 

 visits to Dovedale and other Staffordshire localities, his records 

 being given in Purton's Midland Flora: these include Silene nutans, 

 Prunus Padus, Pyrus Aria, Inula Helenium, Antirrhinum Orontiwn, 

 Spiranthes autumnaJis, Crocus nudijiorus, Polystichwn lohatum. He 

 died at Allesley Rectory, 1863. 



Thomas Purton (1768-1833) was born at Endon Burnell, Shrop- 

 shire, and in 1818-20 published his valuable Midland Flora. 

 Although he gave his more especial attention to Warwickshire, 

 seems to have made occasional visits to that portion of Stafford- 

 shire nearest his native home, as Himley and Enville, whence he 

 records five Staffordshire plants : — Ornithopus, Campanula patula, 

 Pyrola media, Orchis ustulata, and Scirpus carinatus, the last being 

 probably an error. 



James Carter in 1839 published in the Magazine of Natural 

 History (n. s. vol. iii. 72) a paper on the plants growing near Cheadle. 

 This contains twenty- three additional Staffordshire plants, many 

 of which I have seen in that locality quite recently, the more rare 

 being Geranium pusillum, Saxifraga hypnoides, Pyrola minor, Oro- 

 hanche elatior, Carex strigosa, Phegopteris calcarea. I am unable to 

 find any records of this botanist. 



Robert Garner, M.D. (1808-1890), was born at Longton, 

 Staffordshire, 1808, and from his youth upwards evinced a great 

 love for natural history pursuits ; this led to his choice of the 



