WILLIAM MOYLE ROGERS 1()8 



prepares the way for soinetliin^ better." These worls may l)e taken 

 as an intunation that Kog-ers had in mind a more complete work on 

 the subject: this idea gradually took form, and resulted in the pu])li- 

 cation, in 1900, of the Handbook of British Buhi, which was 

 reviewed in the Journal for that year (p. 401). The reviewer pointed 

 out that it was thirty-one years since Prof. Babington brought out 

 his British Rubi, and that the number of species had increased in 

 the interval from 41 in that work to 100 in the Handbook : " Names 

 had been freely imported from Germany in the past, and in some 

 cases tacked on too hastily to English plants ; and it has required 

 years of patient investigation and toilsome correspondence with con- 

 tinental specialists to establish our present list on a sure foundation. 



\\\ this labour Mr. Rogers has taken the principal part Great 



as the work of defining the species and tracking out the synonymy 

 must have been — a work for which a wide knowledge of the recent 

 history of the genus was necessary,— still greater mental effort was 

 re(|uired for the grouping of the various allied forms, and constructing 

 the Keys and Conspectus, which introduce the fruticose section." 



The late \i. P. Murray owed much to Kogers for numerous con- 

 tributions to his Somerset Flora, and in the preface expressed his 

 grateful thanks. Many members of both Botanical Exchange Clubs 

 will have reason to regret the passing away of one whose unrivalled 

 knowledge of Bubi has been for so many years placed at their 

 Svjrvice. 



Among Rogers's collaborators in the Bubi may be mentioned the 

 Rev. Augustin Ley (1842-1911) of whom a memoir from his pen 

 appears in this Journal for 1911, p. 201 : "In Biibits,'' Rogers writes, 

 '■ for the last twenty years Ley has been my indefatigable and most 

 heljjful fellow- worker," and to him Rogers dedicated his Buhus Leiji. 



Other species of Bubus were described by Rogers from time to 

 time in these pages, with a numerous array of varieties. The species 

 include B. lacustris, B. iricus, B. Lettii, B. cinerosus, B. Grif- 

 fithianiis, B. drisyphyllus ; B. Marshalli was named by Focke and 

 Rogers in combination. 



The distribution of Bubi in the counties of Great Britain was, 

 of com*se, dealt with in the Handbook, and on this account was 

 entirely omitted from Mr. Arthur Bennett's " Supplement to Topo- 

 graphical Botany," ed. 2, published with the Journal for 1905. To 

 remedy this omission, Rogers compiled a complete list of the comital 

 distribution, on the same lines as this Supplement; this was jniblished 

 in the Journal for 1909, and forms a very serviceable record; this 

 he brought up to date in 1915. In 1916 (p. 37) was published a 

 a note — -his last contribution — asking that specimens should be sent 

 to Mr. Riddellsdell, whose summary of additions to the Handbook, 

 compiled with Rogers's help and approval, appeared in these pages in 

 April last. 



Since he retired to Bournemouth, Rogers continually helped at the 

 daily or Sunday services of one or other of the neighbouring churches, 

 so far as his health allowed. A devout Churchman of the school of 

 Canon Liddon and Dean Church, he readily found clergy near at hand 

 who were congenial to him. While living at Pine Dene, Branksome 



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