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During liis incuiiibency of Woolland, Rogers married Alicia 

 llebecca, daughter of Major Chadwick, of Chetnole. Their son, the 

 Rev. Y. A. Rogers, inherited his father's botanical tastes, and is well 

 known to readers of this Journal as an indefatigable collector of 

 South African plants, many of which have from time to time been 

 described in these pages. 



It would be tedious to enumerate the papers which Rogers has 

 contributed to this Journal : when I was asked to write some account 

 of his work, I looked tlirough the indexes for some thirty-eight yeaio, 

 and was astonished at the number of his contributions — at first on 

 British plants generall}^ of late years on Hubi almost exclusively. 

 A series on the Sora of Devon appeared in 1877 and the three follow- 

 ing years ; from 1880 onwards several papers recorded Dorset plants. 

 A liandsome acknowledgement of Rogers's work was made by Mr. J. 

 C. Mansel-Plejalell in the preface to the second edition of his Flora 

 of Dorset : — " The frequent occurrence of his name, in almost every 

 page, shows how much 1 am indebted to him for the records of new 

 stations, and in some instances of new ^^lants." 



In 1881 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society. In 

 the two following j^ears two or three long papers on the Devon Flora 

 flowed from his pen, recording his numerous notes. He had before 

 this made the acquaintance of Archer Briggs — an acquaintance 

 which soon ripened into a warm personal friendship, which he records 

 in the long and interesting Memoir, printed in this Journal for 1901 

 (p. 97), as "among the choice blessings of [his] life": in 1877 "I 

 induced liim to come and spend a few days with us at Trusham, near 



Chudleigh, in the Teign Valley This proved the first of a 



series of annual visits to my house, paid, I believe, without inter- 

 mission fo]' fourteen successive years." On several excursions, which 

 resulted in the long paper on "The Flora of the Teign Basin, S. Devon" 

 (1882), Briggs was Rogers's frequent companion : while at Bridge- 

 rule, the latter writes that " in brief visits in four successive years 

 Briggs helped me to botanize the Upper Tamar Valley and neigh- 

 bouring districts, as at Trusham he had helped me in the Teign 

 Valley. In fact, in both neighbourlioods he went further afield than 

 I was able to do ; and the papers which I published in this Journal, 

 in 1882 and 1886, on their floras w^ould probably never have been 

 written but for his help and encouragement." It is noticeable that, 

 although Rogers had begun to study Biihl some years before, he still 

 depended much on Briggs and Babington for naming species with 

 which he was not familiar. 



In the summers of 1889 and 1890 Rogers and I paid visits to the 

 late E. S. IMarshall, who was then Curate of Witley, Surrey ; 

 Marshall conducted each of us in search chiefly for the brambles of 

 the neighbourhood, which resulted in " Notes on some S.W. Surrey 

 Rubi," published in the Journal for 1891. The following ^^ear 

 witnessed the appearance of a series of imjDortant articles, modestly 

 entitled "An Essay at a Key to British Rubi," which were afterwards 

 reissued. That Rogers appreciated the difficulty of his subject is 

 shown by his opening remark : — " This is no more than it professes 

 to be, an essav at a verv difficult task, and I shall be content if it 



