Clxiv FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



■and Enonymus europaeus in 1823 ; Rosa micrantha in 1824 ; Sium erecium 

 in 1825; Leontoclon hispidus in 1827; Senecio sylvaticus in 1829; Gncqjha- 

 Hum sylvaticum in 1830 ; Seclmn re/Iexum in 1831 ; and S. sqiialidus in 

 '1833. 



The volumes of the Phaenogamoua Bo'any gi\e, as additions to the county 

 fio)-a, Ikx AquifoUum, Cornus sanguinea, Hieraciuvi umbelatuni, Ceratopliyl- 

 • lum demersum (Mr. Willis), Typha angustifolia, Popidus nigra, Anchusa 

 sempervirms (Dr. Beeke), Samolus Vahrandi (Mr. Delamotte), Anemone 

 .apennina (Mrs. Pearce), Tulipa sylvcstris and L. latifolius (Miss Hoskins, 

 the latter record probably an error for Lathyrus sy:vestris), and a 

 confirmatory notice of the occurrence oi Epipadis palustris. His later 

 observations refer to the discovery in Berkshire of Polygonum mite in 

 11839. and of Aira caryophylUa and Elodea canadensis in 1854. His 

 numerous notes on Oxfordshire plants have already been enumerated 

 in my Flora of that county. Mr. Baxter's MSS. fully bear out the 

 character that he bears for extreme conscientiousness and accuracy ^ 



BoRRER. William Borrer was born at Henfield, in Sussex, in 1781, and 



was educated at Hurstpierpoint and Carshalton. His ample fortune 

 enabled him to devote himself to the study of the plants of Great 

 Britain, most parts of which he visited in quest of specimens ; and 

 he cultivated the more critical forms in his garden at Henfield, which 

 contained an extensive collection of willows. He published but IHtle ; 

 a few pages in the Phytologist, some descriptions in the Supplement to 

 English Botany, his share with Dawson Turner in the privately-printed 

 portion of the Lichenographia Britannica, of which only a few sheets 

 appeared, in 1839, and the descriptions of the species of Myosotis, Bosa, 

 and Bubus in Sir Wm. Hooker's British Flora of 1830, almost exhaust 

 the list. He was among the earliest observers in Britain of Matthiola 

 incana, Niiphar minimum, and Trifolium steVatum. He found Potamogeton 

 praelongus near Reading, and described it in 184 1 in the English Botany 

 _Supplem.ent, No. 2858. He died at Henfield in 1862. His extensive 

 herbarium is at Kew, where there is also a portrait of him. A genus 

 Borreria, now merged in Spennacoce, L., was named after him by Meyer, 

 as were also Rt(b>is Borreri, Poa (Panicxdaria) Borreri, and two or three 

 species of mosses and lichens '"'. 



Henslow. The Rev. John Stevens Henslow was born at Rochester on Feb. 6, 

 1796, the eldest of eleven children of J. P. Henslow, a solicitor of 

 that city, where the subject of our notice was educated. In 18 14 

 he entered at St, John's College, Cambridge, graduated in 1818, and 

 became a M.A. in 1821. He was elected F.L.S. in 1818 and F.G.S, 

 in 1819. On the death of Thomas Martyn in 1825, in whose hands 



^ See Gardeners' Chronicle (1871), 1426; Gardeners' Magazine (1834), t 10-13. 

 '^ Further information will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, 

 vol. v. p. 406. 



