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somniferum, also found by Mr. Hewett near Ilsley. The second 

 is Puhjgala amara, which meant P. calcarea. Valeriana dentafa is, of 

 course, our Valerianella dentata. The other additions are Sonchus asper, 

 Asplenium Adiantum- nigrum, Lastrea {Bryopteris) Filix-mas, and PoJysfichum 

 aculeatum. Mr. Flower also gives Thlapsl peifoUatum, which is doubtless 

 an error for T. arvense, and his Diplotaxls muralis is probably B. tenuijblia. 

 which he does not mention, though it is so common on the Abbey 

 walls. His Aceras anthropophora is also erroneous, Hahenaria viridis 

 having most probably been mistaken for it. 

 Babinct- Professor C. Cardaxe Babington, F.K.S., Professor of Botany in the 



TON. University of Cambridge, and author of the Manual of British Botany, 



recorded the occurrence of Atriplex deltoidea near Maidenhead in the 

 Trans. Bat. Soc. Edin. (1840) 13, and of Eanuncidus heterophyllus in the 

 Annals of Natur<il History, ii. 16, 393, 1855. He also says he found Pzjrus 

 scandica about Pangbourn and Silchestei', but Dr. Boswell Syme, in Eng. 

 Bot. vol. iii. 246, says that he was unable to find it about Pangbourn. 

 In the British Rubi of 1869 he mentions that Rubus suberedus [^nessensis) 

 and R. Balfourianus occur in Berkshire. 

 Hewett. In 1844, Mr. Hewett, a surgeon of East Ilsley, published a small 



volume entitled Tiie History of the Hundred of Compton. In addition to 

 historical and archaeological matter this work contains a short list of 

 plants observed by Messrs. Hewett, senior and junior, and Mr. Job 

 Lousley, which includes a record oiPapaver somniferum from East Ilsley. 

 Mr. Hewett's son, in 1840, when he was eighteen years of age, put 

 too-ether a work, still in manuscript and contained in the Natural 

 History Department of the British Museum, which was accompanied 

 with coloured figures and entitled 'An account of the Orchideous 

 plants found in the neighbourhood of East Ilsley, by W. Hewett, 

 junior.' About fourteen plants are figured, and one of them, labelled 

 Satyrium albidum, explains the record for that species by Mr. Job Lousley 

 in the Newbury list. The plant, as might be expected, is not Habenaria 

 albida, but a small pale- flowered form of H. conopsea. The figure of H. 

 bifol'a would appear to have been made from the true H. bifolia. The 

 other drawings need no further comment. 

 Pamplin. Mr. William Pajmplin is a well-known botanist, whose labours 



have been recognized by hLs election as an Associate of the Linnean 

 Society. He was a great friend and frequent correspondent of Mr. 

 Baxter's and I have to thank him for several notes on the botany 

 of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. In the Phytologist for 1854, p. 153, he 

 published a libt of plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Streatley 

 and Goring. This, like several previous lists, is an enumeration of 

 plants gathered on the borders of two counties, and we are not sure 

 in every case that the plant really occurred in Berkshire. Mr. Pamplin 

 says of the district that 'it is the head-quarters of Anemone Pulsalilla, 



