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Ctnosttrfs ECHINATTTs L. . Gramen alopecuroides spica aspera 

 brevi R. S. 3. 397. 5. [The specimen from Mersey identified by 

 Hemsted with this Channel Island species seems to be merely a 

 depauperate Hordeum.^ 



Festuca ovina L. An Gramen capillaceum locustellis pennatis 

 non arisfatis R. S. 3. 410. 9. Middleton ; Link Hills, Maplestead ; 

 Lavenham, 12 May, 1740. 



Teiticum junceum L. 4. Gramen maritimum spied foliacea. 

 R. S. 3. 391. 6. Mersey Island. [There is no doubt, such as Gibson 

 suggests {Flora, p. 388), as to the identity of this species found by 

 Dale in Mersea and first recorded by Ray in the Fasciculus of 1688.] 



Elymus arenarius L. R. S. 3. 390. 3. *Mersey. 



Equisetum maximum Lam. April 1744. 



E. SYLVATicuM L. R. S. 3. 130. 4. In Kane Wood, near 

 London. Shewn me by Mr. John Field Apothecary at the Bell in 

 Newgate Street. 



E. LiMOSUM L. Cornard. 13 Aug. 1746. 



E. PALUSTBE L. var. polystachya. *By the riverside behind 

 Milford parsonage. 25 Aug. 1743. 



E. PATAiSTEE L. var. suhnuda. Cornard Mere. 20 Jxily, 1739. 

 Bogg in Milford where the Pinguicula grows. 22 May, 1746. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum L. *0n a bog in Milford near the 

 paper-mills, where the Pinguicu]a grows. 13 June, 1746. 



Osmunda regalis L. R. S. 3. 125. 4. Bogg near the Dove 

 House in Heney [Essex]. 



Lastrea Thelypteris Bory. R. S. 3. 122. 7. An ? *ln a 

 pond in a Lay adjoyning to a wood called Pouters & Roses in Great 

 Cornard, Worninglield or Newton. 20 June, 1754. *In a pond in 

 Walgrave's Gardens adjoyning to Armsey in Bulmur. 



L. spiNULOSA Presl. An 3. Filix montana ramosa minor argute 

 denticulata R. S. 3. 124. 3. *0n the driest part of Link Hills in 

 Maplestead. 



[The Cryptogams of Andrews's Herbarium will be enumerated 

 later.] 



JAMES EUSTACE BAGNALL, A.L.S. 



(1830-1918.) 



The author of the Flora of Warwickshire and of Staffordshire 

 was born in Birmingham, Nov. 7, 1830, and educated there at the 

 celebrated school at Singer's Hill, Avhere he was under the tuition of 

 the head-master's sons, Rowland and Matthew Davenport Hill, 

 afterwards two very famous Birmingham worthies, the former the 

 inventor of the " penny post." In 1844 his business life began in 

 his father's warehouse; in 1853 he was appointed to a responsible 

 position in Messrs. Hinks and Wells's pen factory, which he con- 

 tinued to hold until 1897. Before he retired he was offered a partner- 

 ship in the firm, whicli his modesty led him to decline. 



