TX MPZMORY OF BAXTEL OLIVER 95 



In the year following his retirement, the University of Aberdeen 

 conferred on Oliver the honorary degree of LL.D. ; he had already 

 been honoured by Edinburgh, where in 1882 he was elected one of the 

 six Honorary Fellows of the Botanical S<)ciet3\ 



After 1905, Oliver, though still continuing to live at Kew, retired 

 into private life. He took up gardening and devoted more time 

 than ever to his pictures, of which his studio was full. He had 

 become much interested in music, chiefly in the works of Bach and 

 Mozart, of w^hich one of his daughters was a competent interpreter. 

 " Throughout a long life," says the Friend of Jan. 12th, " he 

 rarely suffered from ill-heilth, and he retained to the last the 

 full use of his faculties. His death [on Dec. 21], which followed 

 a few days' illness, was swift and peaceful." He was buried in 

 the burial-ground connected with the Friends' meeting-house at 

 Isleworth, at which he had been a regular attendant. 



There is a pleasing portrait of Oliver in the Kew Herbarium 

 which Avas painted in oils in 1893 by J. Wilson Forster and 

 presented by members of the staff and others. An early photo- 

 graph at the Linnean Society represents hhn as 1 remember him 

 best with a black beard ; a later, perhaps the most characteristic 

 of the photographs, was given as a frontispiece to the Journal of 

 the Kew Guild for 1898. That given on p. 89 was taken in late 

 life ; a yet later one, reproduced in the Friend, appeared in a 

 group of the four Keepers of the Herbarium — Mr. Baker, Dr. Hems- 

 ley, and Dr. Stapf being the other figures. 



SOME PLANTS THAT MAY OCCUR IN BRITAIN. 

 Bi C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. 



The following notes were submitted to the Linnean Society at its 

 meeting on Feb. 1st. It is thought that any practical results which 

 may follow their publication may be more readily obtained if they are 

 brought before the British botanical public in this Journal rather than 

 in that of the Linnean Society, and they are therefore published here. 



It is of course not easy to predict what species are likely to occur, 

 especially as our list already includes plants, undoubtedly native, 

 which, from' their Continental distribution, would hardly be expected 

 to be found in Britain. On the other hand, if one attempted to 

 enumei-ate all the species, subspecies, varieties or forms which, from 

 their known geographical distribution seem likely to be found in 

 these islands, a very long list might be compiled. 



My present purpose is to take only a few well-defined species, to 

 point out how they may be distinguished in the field or herbarium, 

 and to compare them with their nearest British allies. 



Ranunculus ololeucos Lloyd. 

 This was described by Lloyd in 1844 and is closely alHed to 

 B. Iripartitti.s. It differs however in one very obvious character 



