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Fimaria faacicularis Dicks. Hamstead ; Qaeslet; Aldridge.— 

 F. calcarea "Wahl. {F. Mahlenbecki R. G.). Dowe Dale ! R. G. 

 Lane from Mill Dale to Ham. 



Bariramia pomi/ormifi L. Frequent on banks, Hamstead ; near 

 Stone, &c. 



P/iilonotin fontana L. Flash ; Cannock Chase ; Rushton ; 

 Chartley, &c. — Var. caspitosa Wils. Footways, Newborough ; 

 Cannock Chase ; Morridge Top ; Rushton Marsh ; Chartley. — P. 

 calcarea B. & S. Hherbrook and Brindley Valleys, Cannock Chase. 



Breutelia arcuata Dicks. Dove Dale, Valentine. Mill Dale, 

 abundant. 



Orthodontium (jracllc Wils. Very rare, rock by the Chuinet, 

 near Alton Towers, c. frt. 



Leptubryum pyri forme L. Whitmore, E.G. Alton, Tixall ; 

 EUaston ; Penn Common ; Norbury Park. 

 (To be continued.) 



THE LATE LORD DE TABLEY. 



John Byrne Leicester Warren, third and last Baron De Tabley, 

 was born at Tabley Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire, on April 26th, 

 1835. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, 

 taking his M.A. degree in 1856. In 1860 he was called to the bar, 

 and in 1871 took up his residence in London. He succeeded to 

 the title in 1887. 



His many qualifications in the direction of literature and art 

 are sympathetically recorded in the AthentEum for Nov. 30th, 1895, 

 by Mr. Theodore Watts, and in the Contemporary Reviexc for 

 January, 1896, by Mr. Edmund Gosse, who describes him as " a 

 scholar of extreme elegance, a numismatist and a botanist of exact 

 and minute accomplishment, the shyest of recluses, the most 

 playful of companions, the most melancholy of solitaires, above all 

 and most of all, yet in a curiously phantasmal way, a poet." 

 These writers enjoyed Lord De Tabley's intimate friendship — a 

 somewhat rare privilege, for he was by nature a recluse, and as a 

 consequence was intensely sensitive, and easily pained by the real 

 or fancied want of sympathy of those with whom he came in 

 contact. The papers I have mentioned have done justice to his 

 literary attainments ; but the only attempt to present him as a 

 botanist is that of his friend Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, whose letter in 

 the Spectator of December 7th supplements in other respects the 

 notices of Messrs. Gosse and Watts. It is this aspect of Lord De 

 Tabley's varied attainments which demands record in the pages of 

 this Journal, in which the results of his work among British plants 

 Lave for the most part been published. 



The period during which Warren occupied a prominent position 

 among British critical botanists extended from 1869 — when he 

 published in this Journal his "Account of Cheshire Rubi " — to 

 1877, when he contributed his " Notes on Sussex Plants " : these 

 two papers are excellent examples of his thorough painstaking 



