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discovered Carchtus heterophyllus, the plant which she took for it being 

 Cnicus pratensis. Notwithstanding the numerous errors the list is one 

 of donsiderable importance, since it is very comprehensive and adds 

 more than sixty species to those already recorded for Berkshire. 

 Among these are TrigJochin paJiistre, Catahrosa, Juncus ohtusiflorus, Bidens 

 cerniia, and TypJia latifoUa. Potamogetoyi nifescens {alpinus) fi'om Hampstead 

 Marshall pond?, given by Mrs. Kussell, must be verified before the 

 record can be admitted, for at the date when the list was compiled 

 this plant was not very well understood. TrifoUum incarnatum is another 

 addition of Mrs. Russell's to the Berkshire flora (see the Phytologist for 

 1843, p. 236). Mrs. Russell's Carex Oederi was the small form of C./lava. 



Bunny. I^i'- Joseph Bunny was born in 1798 at Newbury, where his father 



and grandfather had been in practice as surgeons since 1766. He was 

 educated in his native town, and after obtaining the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, he practised in Newbury 

 from 1823 to 1882. He prosecuted the study of botany with much 

 indvistry, took considerable interest in the formation of a local museum, 

 and was Vice-President of the Literary and Scientific Institute. He 

 died in 1885, and was buried in the cemetery at Newbuiy. Professor 

 Rupert Jones, who was apprenticed to Dr. Bunny, tells me that he 

 cultivated his taste for natural history to a considerable extent. He 

 was much respected for his charity and kindness. 



LousLEY, Mr. Job Lousley was the eldest son of Joseph Lousley, Esq., of 



Moreton House, where he was born on November 20, 1790, His fore- 

 fathers had owned land in Berkshire for seven centuries. He resided 

 for many years at Hampstead Norris, a property which had come into 

 his possession. He was a great friend of Dr. Bunny's, and with him 

 explored the interesting district round his house, his own large wood's, 

 Beech Wood, Laycroft, and Park Woods, aifording vei-y favourable 

 opportunities for botanical research. He took a considerable part in 

 the management of local matters, and a warm interest in politics. He 

 was invited on two occasions to stand for his county in the Conservative 

 interest. In 1852 he compiled a small glossary of provincial words 

 used in Berkshire. His son, Lieut.-Col. B. Lousley, the well-known 

 authority on county tokens, who superintended the second and en- 

 larged edition of the Provincialisms of Berkshire, tells me that his father 

 accumulated a library of more than 70,000 volumes, that he supplied 

 Mr. Hewett, jun., with much of the information for his work on 

 the history and antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, and that 

 for upwards of twenty years he contributed a monthly agricultural 

 report to BelVs Weekly Messenger. He died on July 8, 1855, at Hamp- 

 stead Norris, where there is a monument to his memory. 



Mr. Lousley contributed many plant-localities to the Newburj^ list, 

 and some to Hewett's work. Among the additions to the flora of 



