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but it is not given in that work, and probably the source appealed to 

 should be Mr. Winch's MSS. Since writing the above I have con- 

 sulted the copy of the Flora Britannica referred to, and find that Winch 

 in his MS. notes does not always, or even generally, refer to his own 

 discoveries, the Berkshire notes being chiefly from Mr. Bicheno and 

 Mr. J. Woods (afterwards the author of the Tourist's Flora". Sagina 

 suhulaia was recorded by Mr. Woods and Mr. Bicheno, Narcissus bijlorus 

 and Silene quinquevubwra by Mr. Bicheno ; Pijrns Aria and several other 

 plants, including the erroneous notice of Geranium sylvaticum, were 

 observed by Mr. J. Woods. Mr. Bicheno was also credited with two 

 plants, Bumex marilimus and Epilohium roseum, which Mr. H. C.Watson 

 did not mention, no doubt because he thought they were not correctly 

 named. The notes were principally made about 1802. 



The year 1839 was the date of the publication of a work entitled Russell's 

 TJie History and Antiquities 0/ Newbury and its Eyivirons^ which contains, on ^^^icbnr)/ 

 pages 310-340, a list of plants found in the neighbourhood of Newbury. C'^^^^^9'^'''^' 

 This list was drawn up chiefly by Mrs. Anna Russell, of Kenilworth, Russell. 

 who&e maiden name was Worsley ; some additions were made to it by 

 Mr. Job Lousley, and the name of Mr. J, Bunny is mentioned in it ; it 

 contains about 550 plants, a few of the habitats being in Hampshire. 



Mrs. Russell contributed a note to the Phytologist (vol. iii. p. 716), 

 in answer to a criticism by Dr. Bromfield {Phyt. iii. p. 628) on the 

 Newbury list, in which he drew attention to the doubtful character of 

 some of Mr. Lousley's records. Mrs. Russell says : ' The list was chiefly 

 drawn up by myself at the request of a relation [Dr. Bunny] residing 

 in the place, and with few exceptions comprised only such plants as 

 I had seen with my own eyes, or had his authority for. On receiving 

 a printed copy of the list, I was vexed to perceive that sundry additions 

 had been made to it, for the correctness of which I had no means of 

 vouching, though Mr. Job Lousley, on whose authority they were 

 principally made, is I understand an acute and zealous observer.* 

 Mrs. Russell also contributed a list of plants frcm the neighbour- 

 hood of Bristol to the New Botanist's Guide, and she was a valued 

 correspondent of Mr. H. C. Watson, as appears from Topographical Botany, 

 and ed. p. 555. Her drawings of Fungi, over 700 in number, are in 

 the British Museum. See Journ. Bot. (1877) 32, 



Among the errors in the Neicbury Catalogue are Salvia pratensis, a mis- 

 take for S. Verbmaca, Polycarpon tetraphyllum, lllecebrum verticillatum. Allium 

 Schoenoprasum, Lathijrus palustris, Habenaria albida, and Eupliorhia platy- 

 plnjlla, which are undoubtedly mistakes of Mr. Lousley's, and his deter- 

 minations of Mentha sylvestris (longifolia), M. piperita, and Gnaphalium 

 {Antennaria) dioicum are very probably wrong ; they must at all events be 

 verified before the plants can be admitted to the flora. Mrs. Russell 

 was mistaken, as she afterwards found out, in supposing that she had 



