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now [April 21] in full bloom.* Anemone Pulsatilla is not found on the 

 Oxfordshire side of the Thames. Cin&raria (Senecio) campestris, which is 

 restricted to Berkshire in the district in question, occurs in the list 

 with Orchis ustulata, 0. militaris, 0. tephrosanthos (Simia), Iberis amara, 

 Linaria repens, and ' Veronica Buxbaumii \_Tour7hefortii], a beautiful large- 

 flowered species very abundant and ornamental in corn and turnip 

 fields.' Mr. Pamplin notes that the chalk hills are studded with 

 juniper and yew ; and that he once saw a steep chalk bank, on which 

 a great number of OrcJiis militaris and 0. iephrosaniiios once grew, being 

 stubbed up and burnt for manure, the orchids being roasted and 

 burnt alive. In Mr. Pamplin's list 257 species and five varieties are 

 enumerated, of which Rumex pulcher, Trifolium fragiferum, and Petro- 

 selinum sativum (Carum Petroselinum) a,ve recorded for the first time as 

 Berkshire plants, the last, however, being only a garden straggler. 

 Several interesting plants are included in the list, but with them are also 

 a considerable number that are wrongly named. Among the errors are 

 — ' Cardamine impatiens,' by which some form of C. Jlexnosia was probably 

 meant ; ' Viola Curtisii ' is a mistake for the large-flowered form of 

 V. tricolor; ^ Sechmi Forsteri* was most likely a form of S. rejlexum; 

 ' Myosotis sylvatica' was M. scorpioides, var. unibrosa ; 'Aceras anthropophora' 

 was Habenaria viridis ; * Cephalanihera ensi/olia ' was probably a form of 

 C. pallens. Considerable doubt attaches also to the records of ' Trifolium 

 subterraneum,' ' Carduus tenui/lorus,' and some others. ' Lamiumpurpureum, 

 var. incisum,' was probably the var. decipiens, and the Oxfordshire 

 ^ Pyrola media ' was P. minor. 



In conjunction with Mr. Alexander Irvine, i,he author of the 

 Lo)idon Flora, Mr. Pamplin has given an account, published in the 

 Phytologist for 1857-8, p. 338, of a visit paid to Caversham and of 

 the plants observed there, but none of these were additions to the flora 

 of the county. In 1842 he sent to Mr. Luxford specimens of a gentian 

 from Streatley, which the latter reported upon in the Phytologist x){ 1842, 

 p. 381, and identified with Gentiana germanica of Wildenow. At that 

 time the specific difference between that species and G. Amarella was 

 not very well understood, great stress being laid on the capsule being 

 sessile or more or less stipitate. Mr. Luxford gave it as his opinion 

 that G. germanica is not specifically distinct from G. Amarella, but I have 

 some doubt whether the plant which he had before him from Streatley 

 was true germanica ; neither I nor any other botanist have ever seen it 

 growing there, and the large form of G. Amarella, which has been more 

 than once mistaken for G. germanica, does grow at Streatley. 



A few Berkshire localities are given in Irvine's London Flora, but no 

 additions to the county are made in it. 



Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny was born at the Eectory, Stratton, Daubeny. 

 Gloucestershire, on Feb. 11, 1795. He was educated at Winchester 



