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medical professiou. His early medical training was received in 

 the pottery district, partly at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, 

 under Mr. Spark, who was also a botanist ; afterwards he became 

 a student under Sir Charles Bell, at the New London University. 

 On attaining his medical degree Garner commenced practice in 

 London, but a few years later removed to Stoke, where he passed 

 most of his life. He was a man of varied talents, genial and 

 unassuming, and had a large circle of friends ; was an industrious 

 writer, and a devoted student of natural history, and many 

 pamphlets were published by him bearing on that study. His 

 great work is The Natural History of the County of Stafford, printed 

 in 1844, and in this he gives evidence of a very wide knowledge of 

 natural science, botany, geology, mineralogy, and the allied science 

 archeology. He was the founder of the North Staffordshire Natural 

 History Field Club and Archaeological Society, of which he was 

 more than once president, and to whose meetings he contributed 

 many papers on a very varied range of subjects, and this society 

 sustained a great loss in his death in 1890. His excellent work 

 contains an almost complete Flora of Staffordshire, over four 

 hundred and seventy plants being for the first time recorded for 

 that county, the more interesting being Clematis, Ranunculus sardous, 

 Helleborus viridis, Silene anglica, Hutchinsia, Silene noctiflora, Ceras- 

 tium arvense, Arenaria verna, Sagina subulata, Lotus tenuis, Smyrnium, 

 Silaus Jlavescens, Galium erectum, G. sylvestre, Onopordon, Picris, 

 Solanum nigrum, Hydrocharis, Alopecurus J'ulvus, Melica nutans, 

 LastrcBa Thelypteris, Pilularia, Nitella transluceyis. 



Edwin Brown (fl. 1818-1876) published in Mosley's Natural 

 History of Tuthury a Flora of the District around Tutbury and 

 Burton. He was, I believe, manager of the Union Bank at 

 Burton-on- Trent, and a careful and enthusiastic botanist. His 

 list includes records from the neighbouring counties of Leicester 

 and Derby ; of his Staffordshire records twenty-one are additions. 

 The less common are Pumunculus Lenormandi, Coronopus didyma, 

 Trifolium filiforme, Chenopodium polyspermum, Scirpus pauciflorus, 

 and Poa compressa. 



Eev. Robert C. Douglas sent to the late Hewett C. Watson in 

 1851 a list of plants seen within three miles of Stafford ; these are 

 mostly recorded in Topographical Botany, and among these are 

 seven plants not previously recorded : — Ranunculus circinatus, R. 

 fluitans, Calamintha Clinopodium, Lamium Galeobdolon, Potamogeton 

 prcelongus, Glyceria plicata, Bromus commutatus. 



John Fraser, M.D., of Wolverhampton, has for many years 

 made a special study of the Staffordshire Flora, and made a valu- 

 able collection of the rarer plants of the county ; the notes given 

 are records of some of the more special plants in his herbarium ; of 

 these many are first records, the more especial being Ranuncidus 

 Bachii, Sagiyia ciliata, Lathyrus Aphaca, Pyrus rupicola, Hieracium 

 maculatum, Salix Woolgariana, S. purpurea, S. Forbyana, S. Smithi- 

 ana, Stratiotes, Neottia Nidus-avis, Lastrcea cristata, Phegopteris 

 polypodioides. 



At various times the Rev. William Hunt Painter has done 



