'20 THE .TOURXAL OF BOTANY 



and Loiightoii, In damp grassy hollows, often associated with 

 AnngaUia fnirlld. Daphne Laureola is still found (very sparingly) 

 in tliic'kets round Fairniead. Epipactis media, the Helleborine, is* 

 another orchid common in the Lower Forest, and occasionally found 

 elsewhere." 



The volume also contains the minutes of the proceedings at the 

 fortniijhtlv meetings of the Society, and an *' interim report of the 

 Botanical* Committee for the Southern Portion of the Districts" 

 which has in view the compilation of a list of the existing flora, no 

 recoi-ds ])rior to 1913 being accepted. We presume the specimens are 

 submitted to some authoritv for confirmation. 



FREDERIC STRATTON 

 (18^0-1916). 



The death of Frederic Stratton, which occurred on December 5th 

 at his residence at Newport, Isle of Wight, has deprived this Journal 

 of one of its earliest subscribers and contributors. His first " Notes 

 on Isle of Wight Plants " appeared in November 1869, in which year 

 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society ; his last in the issue 

 for December last, which, owing to the difficulties which prevailed 

 throughout the 3'ear, did not appear until after his death— it may be 

 cited as an instance of his interest in the Journal that shortly before 

 this he asked whether it had arrived. 



Stratton sj^ent the whole of his life at Newport, where he was born 

 on November 16, ISIO and where he held various appointments, in- 

 cluding that of clerk to the Board of Guardians, a position which he 

 tilled with ability for nearly forty years, retiring in 1903. He was 

 admitted a solicitor in 1863, and practised until about two years ago. 

 He was deeply interested in church matters, which he viewed from 

 the " Low Church " standpoint, especially in the work of the Church 

 Missionary Society: he was a member of the Winchester Diocesan 

 Conference and an active worker in connection with St. John's Church, 

 I'V'wport, of which one of his sons, the Rev. Arthur Carruthers Strat- 

 ton, was at one time vicar. This name indicates the intimate friend- 

 ship which existed between Stratton and Mr. William Carruthers: it 

 was in the Department of Botan}^ — when the latter was Keeper and 

 Trimen, also a friend, an assistant, — when it was still at Blooms- 

 bury, that I first met Stratton. He was also a friend of A. G. More, 

 who acknowledged his help in the "Supplement to the Flora 

 fecfejiHi's " ])ublished in this Journal for 1871. 



Ajxirt from our botanical relations, which were always cordial, I did 

 not know Stratton intimately : but I remember walking to Newport 

 from Weston one hot smnmer's day many years ago, arriving in a 

 footsore condition which evoked the hosjntality of Mr. Stratton and 

 afFonled nut a glance of his hai)])y family life. He always impressed 

 me as a thoroughly good man, ecjuable in disposition, always ready 

 to be lieijd'ul and kind, es])ecially to beginners in botany. 



Having resided all his life in one place, and being a keen observer, 

 Stratton had always an exceedingly intimate knowledge of its 



