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to be new records are Silene quinquevulnera and Sagina sxibulata. The 

 Herbaria of Mr. Bicheno is preserved in the Swansea Museum. Some 

 time since 1 wrote to the Curator to inquire if it contained any species 

 from Berkshire, but I was informed that there did not appear to be 

 any. Eecently, at my request, my friend the Rev. H. T. Riddelsdell, 

 of Aberdare, has kindly examined the collection and found that it 

 contains about seventy or eighty plants from Berkshire, collected 

 between 1810 and 1820. Of these the following take precedence of the 

 first records given in the text of the Flora : — Arenaria tenuifolia, Cerastium 

 quaternellum {Moenchia erecia) from Greenham Common ; Rubus Sprengelii, 

 Snelsmore Common, 1819 (this, it will be observed, is the date of 

 the publication of the species) ; Primula veris ; GnaphaUum sylvaticiim 

 {G. rectum); Senecio aquatic us ; Dryopteris montana {Aspidium Oreopteris) , 

 Snelsmore Common, 1815 ; D. Filix-mas ; Caucalis arvensis {infesta), New- 

 bury, 1812 ; Peucedanum sativum {Pastinaca), Donnington, 1815 ; Apium, 

 graveolens, Shippon ; and Chenopodium pohjspermum, Newbury. 



The following are from localities additional to those given in the 

 text of the Flora : — Lijsimachia nemorum, Snelsmore ; Vinca minor /I. cdba. 

 Bueklebury (a garden escape) ; Dipsacus pilosus, Aldermaston ; Bupleurmn 

 rotundifolium, near Oat mill, Abingdon ; Galium erectum, Newbury ; 

 Sisymbrium SopJda, near Thatcham Church ; Geranium pusillum, at 

 entrance to Northcroft Meadow, 1814; Salvia Verbenaca, Donnington 

 Castle ; and Origanum vulgare, Newbury ; but it will be observed that 

 no light is thrown upon the doubtful records of Mr. Bicheno since 

 Tillaea and Lepldium latifolium appear not to be represented in the 

 collection from Berkshire. 



George Henry Noehden was born at Gottingen on Jan. 23, 1770. Noehdex. 

 He was educated at the University there, and afterwards came to 

 England to be private tutor to the son of Sir William Milner, of Nun- 

 Appleton in Yorkshire. He accompanied his pupil to Eton, where he 

 resided from 1794 to 1797. In 1796 he was introduced to Earl Fitz- 

 william, who ever afterwards distinguished him by his friendship. 

 He was made LL.D. in the same year, and joined the Linnean Society 

 in t8oo. In 1818 he went to Weimar to superintend the education of 

 the children of the hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. In 1820 

 he became a librarian of the British Museum, and in 1821 was chosen 

 as superintendent of the Department of Antiquities and Coins. Among 

 his published works are A Description of Lord Northwick's Greek Coins, 

 A German Grammar, German Exercises, and a translation of two plays in 

 collaboration with John Stoddart. He was Vice- Secretary of the 

 Horticultural Society, to which he communicated eighteen papers on 

 the varieties of Citrus and other horticultural subjects between the 

 years 1817 and 1823. In 1823 he was chosen Hon. Sec. to the Asiatic 

 Society. 



