CIXXX FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



and Oenanthe Lachenalii, found by Mr. Walker near Marcham. The 

 specimen of Ulex Gallii is probably only a larger form of U. minor. 



In later numbers of the same journal the Messrs. Groves have 

 recorded in their papers on the British Characeae the occurrence in 

 Berkshire of NiteUa opaca on the authority of Mr. W. P. Hiern, and my 

 own discoveries of Chara rulgaris, var. papillata, C. contraria, Kitella 

 irunslncens, and some other species. 

 AN'ai.ker. Mr. Frederick Walker was born Dec. 4, 1829. He was the third 

 F' son of Mr. Isaac Walker, of Arno's Grove, Southgate, Middlesex. He 



was educated at Stanmore, and was a pupil of the hite Dean of Lincoln 

 when Vicar of Wantage. He afterwai'ds went to Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, where he played for the University Cricket Eleven four 

 consecutive years. He resided for some years at Oakley House, near 

 Abingdon, and whilst there discovered Scirpus maritimus at Marcham, 

 and Oenanthe Lachenalii. Although debarred from taking walking 

 exercise, he made a list of nearly 500 plants growing in the parishes 

 of Marcham, Tubney, and Abingdon, which included Erigeron canadense 

 as an addition to the county ; for the perusal of this list the author is 

 indebted to his sister, the wife of Admiral Bradshaw, of Steeple Aston 

 Grange. He had a garden of interesting plants. Succeeding to family 

 property, he left Oakley House for Arno's Grove, where he died 

 Dec, 20, 1889. 

 Pex-w, The Rev. C. W. Penny, of Wokingham, was formerly President of 



('. W. the Wellington College Natural History Society, and endeavoured 



to inculcate a love of Natural Science in the pupils of the College ; 

 to him principally was due the establishment of the Wellington College 

 Natural History Journal, and the preparation of a botanical list called 

 Flora Wellingtonensis, issued in 1868. This list contained Corijdalis 

 {Capnoides) clavimlata and Habenaria chlorantha {chloroleuca) , recorded as 

 new by C. Teesdale, but both of them previously observed, and one 

 new plant, Comarum palustre {Poteniilla palusfris). Some plants were 

 wrongly named — Cicuta virosa, Crepis paludosa, Euphorbia platyphijlla, 

 Lepidium Smithii, and Linum angustifoUnm. The second annual report 

 for 1869-70 was i:>ublished in 1871. This gave two additions to our 

 tlora recorded by Mr. Penny, Lotus tenuis and Orniihogalum umhellatum, 

 and confirmatory observations of Myosoiis coUina ; one of the boys 

 found Veronica spicata (a garden outcast). The list for 1872 was 

 compiled by Mr. Penny and was a marked improvement on the 

 preceding ones, the localities of the more interesting species being 

 given, while many of the errors of former lists were omitted ; it 

 contained two new varieties and one new casual, Silene nutans. The 

 li-t for 1872-3 appeared in 1874, and contained five additional plants, 

 all casuals, Mclilotus alba and Lejndimn sativum found by A. Grey, 

 Tragopogon porrifolium and Carduus ' setaeus ' {Cnicus ietosus) by the Presi- 



