MEMOIR. XXI 



That Cardale, not Churchill, is here in question, appears 

 from the initials 'C.C.B.' (pp. 126,7, 186). 



His name, in Cambridge, stood (like Bacchus, Ceres, Pallas 

 of old) by metonymy for Botany in general. Thus when a 

 weed^^ began to choke the Cam, as also Trent and Severn, it 

 was christened Bahingtonia 'pestifera. The term was handy 

 as easily remembered ; a spice of malice added flavour to the 

 dish ; that Babington was guiltless of the rover's growth did 

 not concern the wags ; nor indeed him : they had their jest, 

 and Jiept their friend. 



For his part he pitied the botanist who, never seeking living 

 plants in their homes, armed with microscope ransacks their 

 cell and fibre, spurning meanwhile the name of 'florist.'^^ A 

 student of the first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, espying 

 stems of (what I will call) X in his drawing-room, on learning 

 the name cried, " So that is really X ? I know all about that ; 

 I guessed it would be set, and it was." Science which cannot 

 see the wood for the trees, growing herb or animal for cell laid 

 bare by scalpel, had for him no charm. His joy in Nature was 

 the joy of a child. " My heart leaps up when I behold." 

 " Solomon was not arrayed like one of these." From the soul 

 he could echo Seneca's moan : Non vitae seel scholae discimus. 



This freshness kept his old age green. Doctors, as he rallied 

 from seemingly deadly fits of disease, would bear witness : " You 

 were born to an iron constitution, nor have you trifled with the 

 trust. Had you not been a plain liver, had you been even a 

 smoker, you would not be alive at this hour." Verily old 

 Dollinger is right : L'homme ne Tueurt pas, il se tue. 



Field Botany certainly has length of days in her right hand. 

 One hundred and sixty-two years (1733 — 1895) saw only four 

 Professors of Botany: the two Martyns, John and Thomas, 

 spanning 92 years between them. 



Arm-chair scholars (Stuhengelehrte), wheedled into a walk 

 with the Professor, have not only found their eye quickened, 

 and a keener zest given to communion with Nature, but have 

 with new habits taken a new lease of life. 



His chief works are : — Flora Bathoniensis ; a catalogue of 

 the 'plants indigenous to the vicinity of Bath. E. Collings, 



