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FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



late to make any such alteration.' Robert Brown gave the name 

 Goodenoviae to a natural order of plants, and more recently Gay applied 

 the name of Carex Goodenowii to the Sedge which Goodenough had mis- 

 taken for the Linnaean C. caespitosa ^ 



SiBXHoRP. The Flora Oxoniensis of John Sibthorp, Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Oxford, was published by him in 1794. In this book 

 only one Berkshire locality is mentioned, and the plant which grew 

 there had been already recorded. It has been thought best to abstain 

 from quoting Sibthorp's Flora for any other Berkshire plant, as he was 

 careful not to give localities from that county, though the plants of the 

 Thames are common to both counties. Professor Sibthorp, moreover, 

 was careful to limit his remarks to Oxfordshire. A full account of 

 him will be found on pages 387-392 of my Flora of Oxfordshire. There 

 is an oil-painting of him in the Library of the Botanical Garden at 

 Oxford, and the MS. of his Flora is preserved there. 



RuDGE. Samuel Rudge, a native of Elstree in Hertfordshire, collected many 



plants in the neighbourhood of Sonning in Berkshire, but it is possible 

 that some of them were gathered in Oxfordshire. They were probably 

 obtained about the year 1800, since some of the habitats are given in 

 the Botanist's Guide, which was published in 1805. Rudge's general 

 collection is now in the Herbariuni of the British Museum, and 

 contains the following species from the district mentioned : — Clematis 

 Vitalha, Ranunculus divaricatus, R. Flammula, Papaver Rhoeas, Silene Armeria 

 (an escape), Hypericum perforatum^ H. pulchrum, H. hirsutum, Trifolium 

 medium, Lotus corniculatus, L. uliginosus, Astragalus glycyphyllus, Potentilla 

 Anserina, Peplis Portula, Bryonia dioica, Hedera Helix, Galium palustre, 

 Dipsacus sylvestris, D. pilosus, Scabiosa Columbaria, Filago germanica, Bidens 

 tripartita, Achillea Millefolium, Girysanthemum Leucanthemum, C. Paiihenium, 

 Matricaria inodora, Senecio Jacobaea, Arctium Lappa, Cnicus lanceolatus, 

 C. acaidis, C. arvensis, Centaurea nigra, Picris Echioides, Leontodon autumnale, 

 Anagallis arvensis, A. tenella, Lycopsis arvensis, Myosotis palustris, Verbena 

 officinalis, Verbascnm Thapsus, V. Lychnitis, V. nigrum, Linaria vulgaris. 

 Antirrhinum majus, A. Orontium, Pedicularis sylvatica, Galeopsis Tetrahit, 

 Mentha aquatica, Nepeta Cataria, Stachys 2?«?ifsfr«s, Galeopsis angustifolium, 

 Lamium purpureum, L. album, Ajuga reptans, Mentha rubra, Origanum, 

 Plantago majus, P. lanceolata, P. media, Polygonum aviculare, P. amphibium, 

 Urtica dioica, Junciis glaucus, J. sylvaticus, Arum maculatum, Lemna polyrhiza, 

 Alisma Plantago-aquatica, Potamogeton natans, Eleocharis acicularis, Scirpus 

 maritimus, Eriophorum angustifolium, Carex muricata, C. divulsa, Sieglingia 



^ The reader is referred for further information to Nichols' Illustrations, 

 i. 245 ; English Botany, 2206, &c. ; Royal Society Calendar, ii. 934 ; Smith's 

 Correspondence, vols. i. and ii ; Transactions of the Linnean Society, ii, 126 ; 

 Dictionary of National Biography, xxii. 125; Welch's Alumni Westmonasteri' 

 enses, pp. 374-5 ; and Mathias' Pursuits of Literature. 



