216 SHORT NOTES. 



Kingston, Robert Greaser (1846 ?-1872) : b. Yorksh., 1846?; 



d. Kew, 21st June, 1872. Assistant in Herb. Kew. Journ. 



Bot. 1872, 224 ; Gard. Chron. 1872, 876. Kingstonia Hook. f. 

 Kingstone, — . (fl. 1724). M.D. Discovered Saxifraga Hirculus 



at Knutsford. E. Syn. iii. 355. Kingstonia S. F. Gray = 



Saxifraqa Hirculus. 

 Kippist, Richard (1812 ?-1882) : b. Stoke Newington, 11th June, 



1812; d. Chelsea, 14tli Jan., 1882; bur. Brompton Cemetery. 



A.L.S., 1842. Assistant Librarian, Linn. Soc, 1830; Librarian, 



1842-1880. Fritz. 164; Journ. Bot. 1882, 63; K. S. C. iii. 



658; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1881-2, 64; Gard. Cliron. 1882, i. 91. 



Kippistia Miers = Salacia. Kippistia F. von Muell. = Minuria. 

 Kirckwood, John (fl. 1698). Surgeon. Sent plants to Petiver 



from Angola and Old Calabar. Mus. Pet. nn. 155, 167; 



Gazoph. p. 9. 

 Knapp, F. H. (fl. 1846-1863). Of Bath. 'Botanical Chart,' 



1846. Pritz. 165 ; Jacks. 235. 

 Knapp, John Leonard (1767-1845) : b. Sbenley, Bucks, 9th 



May, 1767 ; d. Alveston, Gloucestersh., 29th April, 1845. 



F.L.S., 1796. 'Gramina Britannica,' 1804. 'Journal of a 



Naturalist,' 1829. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 688, 1127. Pritz. 



165; Jacks. 239; Proc. Lmn. Soc. i. 244; ' Atlienaeum,' 1845, 



463. Knappia Sm. = Mibora Adans. Knappia F. Bauer = 



Rhynchoglossum Blume. 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Festuoa heterophylla Lam. in Britain (see pp. 94, 158). — 

 I fear this plant, discovered by the Rev. E. S. Marshall in Surrey, 

 can scarcely be considered a native of Britain. It is a South 

 European plant, finding its northern limits in the latitudes of Paris 

 and Frankfurt, with the continental climates of these places. 

 Further north, in Denmark, Belgium, and England, it has, I have 

 little doubt, been introduced as a good pasture-plant. It was 

 known to George Sinclair in the beginning of the century. He 

 published it at first under the name Festuca hordiforniis, but in 1816, 

 when the folio edition of his classical work, ' Hortus Gramineus 

 Woburnensis,' was published, he accepted the judgment of Sowerby, 

 and ranked it as a variety of F. ovina. A specimen of the grass is 

 inserted in this edition of his work, and in the 8vo edition (1824) a 

 very good plate is given. He says: — "I am uncertain as to its 

 native place of growth, having never discovered it in any soil or 

 situation in a wild state. Native of Britain" (p. 36). In 1824 he 

 doubted its being a native of Britain, and added a query to this 

 statement. He cultivated a sufficient quantity at Woburn to enable 

 him to determine the produce per acre, and to have it analysed 

 with the view of determining its food-value. Mr. Sinclair specifies 

 his obligations to Mr. Thomas Gibbs, Seedsman to the Board of 



