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FLORA. OF BERKSHIRE 



Jones, 

 Rupert. 



Stowell, 

 H. 



Wilkin, 

 H. 



Reeks. 



School and Magdalen College, Oxford, and took his B.A. degree in 

 1814. In 1822 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry, and in 1834 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford, where he was subse- 

 quently made Professor of Rural Economy. He died on Dec. 13, 1867, 

 in the seventy-third year of his age. There is an oil portrait of him 

 in the Library of the Botanic Garden at Oxford. Lindley's genus 

 Daubenya commemorates him. 



Dr. Daubeny took little interest in field botany, but during one 

 of his visits to the Continent he collected in Spain a few plants, 

 which are now in the herbarium of the Botanic Garden at Oxford. 

 The only addition which he made to the flora of Berkshire is Hypericum 

 calycinum, noticed by him about 1840, A memoir of him will be found 

 in the ProKcdaujs of the Royal Society, vol. xvii. pp. 74-80. 



Professor Rupert Jones, F.R.S., the well-known geologist, who lived 

 for some years at Newbury, has kindly lent me an interesting de- 

 scription of Greenham Common, which he wrote in 1845, and in 

 which he mentions some thirty plants ; but all have been previously 

 recorded. 



In the Phytologist for 1856 (p. 334), Mr. H. Stowell recorded the 

 occurrence of Draba inflata near Reading ' Castle.' The locality was 

 probably near the Abbey, and the plant was a form of Erophiki praecox, 

 not the true Draba inflata. 



In the same journal for 1857-8, on p. 172, in an account of a visit to 

 Ascot, Mr. H, Wilkin gave the names of sixteen plants which he 

 noticed there, and one of these, Corydalis (Capnoides) davicidata, was new 

 to the county. The Potamogeton natans and Habenaria bifolia of this list 

 were probably Potamogeton polygonifolius and Habenaria chloroleuca. 



Mr. Henry Reeks was born at Standen, near Hungerford, on March 

 15) 1838, but during the greater part of his life he resided at the 

 Manor House at Thruxton, near Andover, and died there on February 



20, 



1882. 



In the year 1866 he went to Newfoundland to study its birds, but 

 was so severely frost-bitten at a great distance from surgical aid, that 

 he had the courage to amputate his own toes, and so preserve the 

 remainder of his feet. 



A paper containing a list of the flowering plants of NeAvfoundland, 

 compiled during his visit to that country, was read before the Linnean 

 Society, of which he was a member, in 1869, and a notice of the more 

 remarkable of them appeared in the Journal of Botany for 1871, page 16. 

 He contributed to the same journal a note on the occurrence of 

 Falcaria Bivini in Hampshire, and catalogued the flowering plants, 

 ferns, and mosses observed in the parish of East Woodhay in Hamp- 

 shire. To Mr. Britten's Contributions Mr. Reeks supplied a large number 

 of plant localities, principally from the neighbourhood of Kintbury. 



