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the bramble flora." Other critical species were founded on material 

 collected by Marshall— e. g. Jiubus hesperius and B. iricus, two Irish 

 species described by Mr. Moyle Rogers in J. Bot. 1896, 50J?-6. 

 Haussknecht gave his name to a hybrid Epilohmm {E. Marshalli' 

 anuiii Hausskn.). 



Although Marshall's work finds its chief record in this Journal, 

 it was by no means confined thereto. It is to him that we are 

 indebted for the publication of the Flora of Kent (1899) on which 

 the joint author and originator, Mr. F. J. Hanbury, had been working 

 since 1872. In the preface to the book Mr. Hanbury expresses his 

 regret " for so long a delay," and continues : " Had not his friend 

 and co-editor kindly consented to bring the critical portion up to 

 date, recast the mass of accumulated facts into final shape for press, 

 and. correct the proofs, the Flora could not even now have appeared. 

 He desires to pay his highest tribute to the energy and untiring work 

 that his colleague has thus ungrudgingly given, as well as to the 

 excellent critical field-work which, with little time at his disposal, he 

 has managed to accomplish." Botanists will regret that Marshall 

 was not also called in to complete Mr. Hanbury's Monograpli of the 

 British Hieracia, which, after the issue of eight numbers at dates 

 ranging from 1889 to 1898, remains a splendid fragment of what 

 might have been. In 1901 Marshall prepared for the Victoria 

 County History (published in 1908) an account of the Phanerogams 

 of Kent — a careful and interesting epitome of the Flora. 



In 1914 was published the Supplement to the Flora of So??ie?'set 

 (see Journ. Bot. 1914, 220), which was undertaken by Marshall at 

 the request of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History 

 Society, of whose Botanical Section he was President and in whose 

 Transactions (lix. part 3) it first appeared. He took great interest in 

 the Society, joining in its excursions and presenting to its herbarium, 

 preserved in the Taunton Museum, specimens of his Somerset plants. 

 In the preface to the Supplement Marshall refers to B. P. Murray, 

 the author of the Flora, whose acquaintance he had made when at 

 Wells, as his " first real helper in the study of critical plants .... 

 we were intimate friends from the autumn of 1882 until his death " 

 in 1908 : a more detailed acknowledgement will be found in the 

 notice of Murray contributed by Marshall to this Journal for 1909, 

 p. 1. " 



The account of Betula (one of his favourite genera) in the Cam- 

 Iridcje British Flora (1914) must also be mentioned among Marshall's 

 publications. His help is, moreover, acknowledged in various publica- 

 tions, e. g. in The Flora of Bristol, where Mr. White pays a warm 

 tribute to his critical knowledge ; the Reports of the two Exchange 

 Clubs, of both of which he was a member — he joined the B. E. C. in 

 1892 and the Watson Club in 1900 — contain numerous notes on 

 plants which had been referred to him for his opinion. 



Almost from the beginning of his botanical career, Marshall was 

 intimately acquainted with the leading British botanists. Some of 

 them, as has already been mentioned, shared his summer holiday; 

 others were entertained at the rectory or were themselves his hosts, 

 or joined him on short excursions. He was accustomed to speak with 



