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but only their pedicels curved and mostly in one direction. No. 3 [?2] 

 has always been the most luxuriant of all the Diadelphous plants in 

 the close from which the specimens are taken. Cattle and sheep are 

 so fond of it that it can scarcely be found in any pastures which they 

 have access to. I intend this year to save seed enough to begin its 

 cultivation, and I believe that it will prove one of the most valuable 

 upland plants which we can adopt. I shall be very glad to know your 

 opinion on the subject of this letter, when you have leisure. I intend 

 sending proper specimens to Mr. Sowerby, as also of Lotus cornicidatus, 

 respecting which I am more than ever persuaded of the truth of my 

 obsei*vations. — I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, H. Beeke.' 



No. I is probably a small form of Trifoliiim procumbens, L. Nos. 2 

 and 3 are T. clubium, Sibtli., 3 being the more luxuriant. No. 4 is 

 T. fliforme, L. The specimens, which are, as we have seen, from 

 Berkshire, are in Sir James Smith's herbarium, in which a specimen 

 of BupJeurum Odontites from Torquay, gathered by Dr. Beeke in 1812, is 

 also preserved. In the English Flora, vol. iii. p. 312, Sir James says : 

 'The larger variety of the Trifolium minus, with its succulent brittle 

 stem, retained all its diversity of habit, and remained constant when 

 propagated by seed. Still there is no specific character ^' 



In a letter in the Smith Correspondence, dated Ufton, Oct. 1799, Dr. 

 Beeke says : ' The remarkably beautiful pale pink variety of Convohulits 

 [Calystegia] sepium, of which I am not aware that any particular habitat 

 is noted, grows plentifully by the Turnpike road near the Manor 

 House of Tidmarsh by the side of a coppice. . . . The Imda, called by 

 Dr. Sibthorp I. uliginosa '[Pidicaria vulgaris'], grows plentifully in the 

 parishes of Burghfield and Mortimer.' 



The Eeverend William Fordyce Mavor (the name was originally Mavor. 

 Mac Ivor, as I learn from the Rev. W. D. Macray, of the Bodleian 

 Library), LL.D., was born at New Deer near Aberdeen on Aug. i, 

 1758. In 1775 he was a master in a school at Burford and subse- 

 quently at Woodstock, and through the influence of the Duke of 

 Marlborough, to whose children he was tutor, he was enabled to take 

 holy orders in 1781. He became Vicar of Hurley and afterwards 

 Rector of Stonesfield ; this latter preferment he exchanged for Bladon 

 and Woodstock, and founded a school at Prince's Place, where 

 Edward the Black Prince is said to have been born. In 17B5 

 he was nominated and appointed Curate of Westcote Barton by the 



^ Dr. Beeke described Lotus tdiginosus under the name of L. pilosus, 

 recorded Anchusa sempervirens, and was the discoverer of Barharea 2)raecox 

 in England. See also Gentleman's Magazine, n. s. vol. vii. ; Felix Farley's 

 Bristol Journal (1837) ; Egerton MS. 2. f. 193 ; Addit. MSS. 31229 and 31232 ; 

 Turner and Dillwyn, Botanical Guide, pp. 527-8 ; Dictionary of National 

 Biography, iv. 124 ; Magazine of Natural History, 61 (1837) 392- 



