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plants intermediate between the typQ and O. ericetorum. Space 

 forbids a full description and discussion of these forms. 



As to the origin of the forms, as we have indicated already, we 

 think they may have arisen from hybrid crossings of O. incarnata or 

 O. prcetermissa with some form of O. latifolia or O. maculata. At 

 the same time we much prefer the theory that we have here two 

 cases of mutation from 0. incarnata (or less probably O. prcetermissa). 

 The whole subject is too complicated for discussion here ; but we 

 hope to go into it more fully in connexion with the general question 

 of O. latifolia. 



WALTER STOXEirlOUSE. 



(1597-1650.) 



Bi- R. T. GuATiiEE, F.L.S. 



Walter Stonehouse has led a double life in history. One 

 Mr. Stonehouse is known to Botanists as a searcher after rare plants 

 in the northern counties and in Wales. The Eev. Walter Stonehouse 

 is familiar to the readers of the Register of the Fellows of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, by Macray, who, while collecting many other facts 

 about him was not aware of his botanical researches. I have recently 

 been fortunate enough to find among manuscripts bequeathed to 

 Magdalen College by John Goodyer in 1664 the missing Unks and 

 his own anagram, which identify the Botanist with the Divine. 

 They establish the unity of the two and show him in a new light as a 

 considerable horticulturist for his time — one who would have gone far 

 had not the Parliamentary Commissioners put him in prison. 



The first document that drew my attention to him was an 

 anonymous Catalogus Plantarum Horti mei Darfeldicd Qiiihus is 

 instructus est Anno Domini — a neatly written vellum-bound 12mo 

 volume of 44 leaves, known as Magdalen College MS. No. 239, which 

 is reprinted in the Gardeners' Chronicle for May 15, 1920, and 

 following numbers. Its description in Cox's catalogue of manuscripts 

 suggests that it referred to Goodyer's own garden, and its true attri- 

 bution has been still further camouflaged by a printed reference to it 

 by Dr. Druce, who (Suppl. to Bot. Exch. Club Report for 1916, 

 p. 25) has " Cat. Plant. Horti Dalfidise " — a spelling which indicates 

 that the writer had not examined the clearly written MS. when 

 drawing up his somewhat incomplete list of Goodyers books. Both 

 place and time agree with Walter Stonehouse's tenure of the rectory 

 of Darfield, to which he was instituted in 1631 ; but an absolutely 

 convincing proof is afforded by the words " Theologus servus natus " 

 written in the margin of f. 5 of the MS., the full significance of 

 which I accidentally discovered by reading the page after sign. A4 

 of John Tradescant's MascBum Tradescantiannm (1656) written by 

 our theological botanist who is now also a poet. It reads : — 



