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f. subfalcatum M., f. laxifolium H., M. ; S. auriculatum var. 

 ovatum f. rufescens M., subf. subsimplex M., var. variegatum I\l ., H. ; 

 •var. laxifolium M. ; S. crassicladum \a.v. intermedium £. ovalifolium 

 M. ; #. cymblfollum var. glaucescens f. squarrulosum H., var. pa l- 

 lescens M., var. Jldvescens M. 



Gatharinea erispa, Glvn Corwg, 1890, £<?//'; Polyfrichum strlctum, 

 R. Perddyn, 1908 ; Rhabdoiceisla fugax, Craig-y-llyn, Xcy ; Dicru- 

 nella varia, Llantwit Major, 1908 ; Blindla acuta, R. Perddyn, 1909 ; 

 Flssldens osmiindoldcs, R. Perddyn, 1909; Rhacoml/riu m aciculare, 

 R. Perddyn, 1909 ; R. fasciculare, Craig-y-llyn, 1920, E. A. ; R, 

 canescens, sandhills, Pennard Castle, 1907, Merthyr Mawr Warren, 

 1920, E. A. ; Tortula ambigua, Southerndown, 1908 ; T. intermedia, 

 Portheawl, 1908; Barbula Hornschueliiana, Porthcawl, 1908; 

 TVeisia rupestris, Resolven Waterfall, 1890, Ley, R. Perddyn, 1909 ; 

 Zygodon Mougeotii, R. Perddyn. 1909; Bryum pendulum, Porth- 

 eawl, 1909; B. pallens, Southerndown, 1908; Thuidium ablet iuum, 

 sandhills, Porthcawl, 1908 ; Eurhynchlum prcelongum, Cum Catlian, 

 1907; E. myurwm, Grower, 1907; Hypmim clirysophylhtm, Southern- 

 down, 1908.' 



Alicularia scalaris var. procerlor (fde W. Watson), Craig-y* 

 llyn, 1920; Calypogeia Trichomanis and Scapania irrlgua, Hirwain 

 Common, 1920. 



REVIEWS. 



Henry Nicholas Ellacombe, Hon. Canon of Bristol, Vicar of 

 Bltton and Rural Dean : 1822-1916. A Memoir, edited by 

 Arthur AV. Hill. 8vo, cloth, pp. 318, 14 illustrations. 

 'Country Life' Offices, 20 Tavistock Street, London, W.C. : 

 1919. Price 10s. 6d. net. 



" It has rarely been the fortune of one individual to exert on 

 gardening in this country an influence so wide and beneficent as that 

 wielded by the late Canon Ellacombe of Bitton " : thus begins the 

 preface to the interesting and attractive volume which the Assistant 

 Director of Kew Gardens has devoted to his memory. 



The volume begins with a sketch of the Ellacombe family and an 

 account of the Canon's father, Henry Thomas Ellacombe (1790- 

 1885), who preceded his son as Vicar of Bitton, near Bristol, and 

 from whom the latter doubtless inherited his horticultural and 

 botanical tastes. H. T. Ellacombe, as his letters preserved at Kew 

 show, maintained an extensive correspondence with the leading 

 botanists and horticulturists of his day : he is commemorated in 

 Yucca Ellacombei, figured in Saunders's Refugium Botanicum 

 (t. 317) in 1872, from a specimen in the Bitton garden. 



Henry Nicholas Ellacombe, the subject of this memoir, was born 

 at Bitton on Feb. 18, 1822, where he died on Feb. 7, 1916. Of his 

 early life little is known, nor at any time could his career have been 

 described as eventful. He went up to Oxford in 1840 and graduated 

 in 1844: at this period the "Oxford Movement" was at its height, 

 and both father and son came under its influence. He was ordained in 



