Clvi FLORA OF BEEKSHIRE 



In the unpublished correspondence of Sir James E. Smith in the 

 possession of the Linnean Society there is a letter from Noehden to 

 Sir James, complaining that the Secretary of the Society addressed 

 him simply as Mr. Noehden, just as if he was an ordinary tradesman, 

 instead of G. H. Noehden, Esq. In December, 1822, he writes to 

 Sir James Smith from Milton near Peterborough, where he was 

 staying at the Earl of Fitzwilliam'a, to propose that Dr. Schwilgrichen 

 should be elected a foreign member of the Linnean Society. It is 

 stated in English Botanij that Dr. Gr. H, Noehden found Lichen aleurites 

 on March i, 1801 (see No. 858), and that ' our perfect specimens of 

 Lichen cretaceus were gathered on the chalk by Dr. Noehden and 

 Mr. Gotobed of Eton on May i, 1800' (see No. 738V The present 

 writer ventures to identify the Dr. Noehden above described with 

 the Dr. Noeheden mentioned in Mavor's General View of the Agriculture 

 of Berkshire in the following terms : Tor the following list of plants, 

 the most ample by far that has ever been exhibited in this county, 

 I am in a great measure indebted to the botanical researches of 

 Dr. Noeheden of Windsor and Mr. Bicheno of Newbury. The con- 

 tributions of the former I owe to the kind attentions of the 

 Kev. Mr. Townshend of Bray to promote the object of my enquiries, 

 and I have only to regret that the Doctor, having kept no written 

 memoranda and having made his excursions some years back, was 

 unable to name the exact habitats of the plants he discovered. The 

 district he examined, however, includes the vicinity of Windsor on 

 one side as far as Bagshot Heath, and on the other to Bisham 

 Woods.' 



The list of which Mavor speaks includes 132 plants given by Noehden, 

 but which had been recorded before ; 155 appear to be additions to the 

 county, seven are only of casual occurrence, and ten more were recorded 

 for the first time by Noehden in conjunction with Bicheno. These 

 numbers are exclusive of several records which are probably errors : 

 Allium Schoenoprasum should probably be A. vlneale ; Brassica oleracea is 

 a misnomer ; Geranium moschatum means Erodium cieutariuni ; Salix pen- 

 tandra, Carex arenaria, Stellaria nemorum, Melcmtpyrum arvense, M. cristatum, 

 M. sylvaticum, Peucedanum officinale, and Veronica hybrida are undoubtedly 

 wrong ; Urtica iyilulifera, Filago arvensis, Drosera anglica, and Callitriche 

 autwnnalis are mistakes for Uriica urens, Gnciphalium uliginosum, Drosera 

 longifolia, and Callitriche intermedia respectively. Dr. Noehden, in the 

 same work, says that he has met with several cryptogamous plants, 

 especially in Windsor Forest, where valuable specimens of fungi have 

 also been found. 



The list supplied by Dr. Noehden, notwithstanding its somewhat 

 numerous errors, must be considered as one of the most important 

 contributions to our knowledge of the flora of Berkshire. 



