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(1799) a Clmntarelie, "drawn from nature at Mont Bois in 

 Angus " ; and numerous garden flowers, including a Passion-flower 

 drawn by Eliza FothergiU in 1797. Occasionally the time occupied 

 on the drawing is noted : thus a white Fritillarj took 40 minutes. 



The whereabouts of Forbes's second collection of forty-two volumes 

 prepared for his grandson does not seem to be known. It would 

 appear from a reference in Mrs. Oliphant's Memoir of Montalemhert 

 (i. 10) that it was in Montalembert's library when he was livi'^g at 

 Stanmore, and that she saw it there as she transcribes Forbes's dedi- 

 cation — '"To Charles Forbes Montalemhert," dated " Brighthelmstone, 

 1 Jan. 1811." I do not know what became of the library and so am 

 unable to trace the collection. 



A chinning watercolour portrait of himself by Forbes is framed in 

 the library at Oscott. 



LONDON PLANTS. 



The recently published volume (for 1915) of the Transactions 

 of the London Natural History Society contains two interesting papers 

 on " The Botany' of the [London] District," by C. S. Nicholson, F.L.S., 

 and on " The Flora of Epping Forest," by K. W. Kogers. The 

 former is more especially concerned with Middlesex plants, and 

 mainly with their extinction, which would seem to be progressing 

 at a rapid rate. In the Flora of Middlesex (1869) a list of 

 o8 species was given as in all probability extinct, and to these 

 Mr. Nicholson thinks 79 must now be added, of Avhich he gives a 

 list. It must however be remembered that in Trimen's list were 

 plants which could never have been regarded as native in Middlesex, 

 and the same may be said of Mr. Nicholson's, which we append, and 

 wliich will be seen to contain such plants as Corydalis solida, Arch- 

 fiiigrlic(f, GciUaurea Jaceay Antirrhinum majus. Verhascum Blattaria^ 

 JS'arcissua hijlorus. As to the rest, although none of the members of 

 the Society have succeeded in iinding any of them, it does not we 

 think follow that all are actually extinct. Headers of this Journal 

 AvIU remember that the late Mr. Benbow found at Harefield plants 

 which ap])ear in The Flora of Middlesex as extinctions: Mr. Kogers 

 in his pa}>er is, as we shall see later, more cautious. Mr. Nicholson's 

 list is as follows : — s-^ 



Myosurus minimus, 

 llununcu I us circinutus. 

 Ji. parvijlorus, 

 Corydalis solida. 

 Fu m a ria cap reo lata. 

 F. micrantha. 

 Turrit is ylahra. 

 Tecsda lea n u dim u lis . 

 JJia nth us deltoidrs, 

 *Sayiua ciliata. 

 *S'. subulafa. 



S, nodosa. 

 Alsine tenuifolia. 

 Gera n in m ro t n n difoliu m . 

 Erodium moschatum. 

 Hadiola Millegrana. 

 Medicayo denticulata. 

 Vicia lathyroides. 

 Spiraea Filipendula, 

 Myriophyllu m vertical a turn. 

 M. alt e mi folium. 

 iSedu ni ilasyphyllu m. 



