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Lee, Sarah, nee Wallis (1792 ?-1865) ? b. Colchester ?, 1792 ? ; 

 d. 18G5. m. 1, Thomas Edward Bowdich, 1813 ; m. 2, E. Lee. 

 * Trees, Plants, and Flowers,' 1854. Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 43 ; 

 Jacks. 42; R. S. C. i. 550. 



Lees, Edwin (1800-1887): b. Worcester, 1800; d. Worcester, 

 21st Oct. 1887; bur. Pendock, Tewkesbury. F.L.S., 1835. 

 Printer and stationer. Editor, * Malvern News,' 18G1. Con- 

 tributed to Phytol. from 1841. A founder of Worcester Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, and of Worcestersh. Naturalists' Club. Cat. Wor- 

 cester PI., 1828. ' Botanical Looker-out,' 1842; ed. 2, 1851. 

 'Botany of Malvern Hills,' 1813; ed. 2, 1852. Discovered 

 Faihm Leesii. Eng. Bot. 2981; Pritz. 179; Jacks. 571 ; R. S. G. 

 iii. 925 ; viii. 189 ; Journ. Bot. 1887, 384 ; Ann. Bot. 1888, 406, 

 with bibliog. riuhus Leesii Bab. 



Legge, George (1755-1810) : b. 3rd Oct. 1755 ; d. 1st. Nov. 1810. 

 M.A., Oxon, 1775. D.C.L., 1778. F.R.S. F.L.S., 1790. 

 Viscount Lew^isham. Became 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, 1801. 

 K.G., 1805. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 



Legle, Gilbertus, ''Gilbertus Anglicus'"(fl. 1250). ' De re Her- 

 baria,' lib. i. ; ' De viribus et Medicinis Herbarum, Arborum, et 

 Specierum ' ; De Virtutibus Herbarum,' MSS. Pult. i. 22 ; 

 Haller, i. 209, and Addend, ii. 658; Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib. 

 474 ; Chaucer, Prologue, 1. 434. 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Festuca iietekophylla Lam. , in Britain. — While Mr. Carruthers's 

 remarks (pp. 216, 217), on the sale of this plant by seedsmen, show 

 the need of caution in dealing with the question of its being 

 native, I must protest against the point being summarily dismissed 

 without a fuller examination of its claims ; and ^vill venture to test 

 the accuracy of one or two of his statements, taking Prof. E. 

 Hackel, the monographer of the European Festucce, as my authority 

 in so doing. I find him saying (Mon. p. 131) : — " Planta x^rdcipue 

 australis, vix ultra 52"" lat. bor. progrediens " ; which is not quite 

 the same thing as " it is a S. European plant." He continues : — 

 *' Quum ssepissime cum var. fallaci commutata sit, indicationibus 

 auctorum non semper fidere possum. Secundum specimina a me visa 

 provenit [the italics are my own] . . . frequens in Gallia . . . 

 occidental! et boreali usque Parisias . . . frequens etiam in 

 Germania Occident, et australi, rarius in media et septentrional! 

 (limites septentriouales mihi noti : Palatinatus, Bonn, Kyffha3user, 

 13raunschweig, Sondershausen, Halle, Spandau, Strehlen) ." Thus 

 it does not find its Germanic northern limit at Frankfurt, wdiich is 

 little N. of lat. t>0° ; whereas Spandau nearly touches lat. 53°, 

 Brunswick also being N. of lat. 52^ and Halle only a little S. of it. 

 Nyman gives the species as a native of Belgium ; and its intro- 

 duction there (though not in Denmark, so much further north), 



