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decumbens, Dadylis glomerata, Molinia varia, and Briza media, which are 

 the earliest vouchers for the occun-ence of the plant in our county ^ 



The Botanisfs Guide, by Dawson Turner and Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Botanist's 

 was published in 1805. It contains a list of sixty-seven plants from Guidi,. 

 Berkshire, and of these about thirty are either additions to the flora of 

 the county, or are here recorded for the first time in print as belonging 

 to Berkshire. The notes to the work are contributed by Mr. Gotobed 

 of Eton, Mr. Eudge of Sonning, whose plants are in the Herbarium of 

 the British Museum, the Rev. H. Da vies, Mr. Fardon, Mr. E. Forster, 

 and others. Among the interesting plants here noted are Agrostis 

 {Apera) Spica-venti, Scirpus (Eleocharis) acicularis, Avena pubescens, Dipsacus 

 pilosus, a variety of Galiimi vermti, Sison {Carum) segetum, Myosurus 

 minimus, Euphorbia Lathyris, Mentha Pidegium, Antirrhinum minus {Linaria 

 viscida^, Cardamine aynara. Sisijnibrium sylvestre {Roripa sylvestris), S. Irio, 

 Turritis glabra (Arabis perfoliata). Geranium pratense, Astragalus glycyphyUus, 

 Carex binervis, C. laevigata, Mijriophyllum verticillatum, Alisma Damasonium 

 {Bamasonium Alisma), Saponaria officinalis, Lythrum hyssopifolium {Hysso- 

 pifolia), Batura Stramonium, Rhamnus catharticus, Thesium linophyllmn 

 {T. humifusum'^, Vinca major, and Cuscuta europaea. 



Of Mr. Fardon I have been unable to obtain any particulars, and of 

 Mr. Gotobed so much only, that he contributed records of Bucking- 

 hamshire and Berkshire plants to the Botanisfs Guide, and to English 

 Botany (see Nos. 738, 1295, 150I;, and that he was a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society. 



Daniel Lysons, son of the Rev. S. Lysons, Rector of Rodmarton and Lysons. 

 Clerrington, Gloucestershire, was born in 1762. He was educated at 

 the Grammar School at Bath, and entered at St. Mary Hall, in Oxford, 

 on March 25, 1779. He took the degree of B.A. in 1782 and of M.A. 

 in 1785, and became Curate of Mortlake in 1784. In conjunction with 

 his brother Samuel, he undertook the compilation of the work known 

 as Magna Britannia, in six volumes quarto. The volume %vhich dealt 

 with Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire was issued in 

 1806. In it the occurrence in Berkshire of the ash, hazel, oak, and 

 snowdrop is alluded to, and the discovery by Dr. Beeke of Lycopodium 

 inundatum and L. Selago is recorded. The original letters, sketches, and 

 drawings relating to the Magna Britannia are preserved in the British 

 Museum, where they are numbered 9408 to 9471. 



The Rev. H. Beeke, D.D., Dean of Bristol, was born at Kingsteignton Beeke. 

 in Devonshire, Jan. 6, 1751. He was elected Scholar of Corpus Christi 

 College in Oxford on May 5, 1769, and took his B.A. degree in 1773, 

 his M.A. degree in 1776, his B.D. degree in 1785, and his D.D. degree 

 in 1800. He was elected Fellow of Oriel College in 1775, was Junior 



^ Some notice of the subject of our memoir will be found in the Proceedings 

 of the, Linnean Society, i. 337, and in Pryor's Flora of Hertfordshire, p. xlii. 



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