398 A SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF 



same as those in Grougli's Camden. Other contributors were Sir J. Banks, 

 Eev. Dr. Groodenough of Ealing, Mr. Dickson, and Messrs. Borrer, Lambert, 

 Teesdale, Wood, and Woodward. 



A little-known tract of thirty-six pages, printed in 1813, has also the title 

 The Botanisfs Guide. It is 'a catalogue of scarce plants found in the 

 neighbourhood of London.' There is no author's name, but it is dedicated 

 to J. E. Smith, M.D., ' by the Editor.' In Sir J. E. Smith's own copy, now 

 in the library of the Linnsean Society, he has written, * from his honoured 

 friend Jos. Cockfield, dedication copy,' from which it seems that Mr. Cock- 

 field * was the author. There is very little original in this pamphlet ; the 

 Middlesex list occupies pp. 9-17, and is mainly from Turner and Dillwyn. 

 A second list (pp. 29-32) contains Blackstone's Harefield plants, but by an 

 unfortunate misprint, ' Hounslow ' instead of Harefield, the usefulness of 

 this portion is much impaired. 



By the kindness of Mr. E. Gr. Varenne, of Kelvedon, Essex, we have been 

 furnished with the labels from the herbarium of two medical practitioners, 

 who between 1815 and 1823 botanised much about London, Their names 

 were William Frederick Goodger and Eichard Eozea, the former ' resident 

 apothecary to the parochial infirmary of St. Marylebone from 181 1 to 1832 ; ' 

 the latter a surgeon of Marj-lebone, who died about forty years ago. The her- 

 barium was presented to Mr. Varenne six or seven years back ; * as might 

 be imagined, the specimens were injured by long neglect, but, nevertheless, 

 were quite good enough for recognition and examination. Had the localities 

 been attached to every specimen, a very complete list of the common plants 

 of Middlesex might have been formed' (Varenne in litt. May 1867). They 

 have put on record twelve species not before noticed in our county. 



The Topograph?/ cmd Natural History of Hampstead, by John James 

 Park, was printed by subscription in 1813, but published with additions in 

 1818. Pp. 22-42 are occupied by an account of the vegetable productions, 

 which consists of Johnson's Iter of 1629, given entire, with a few of his 

 plants determined, some quotations from G-erarde, and ' a catalogue of the 

 rarer plants now found on the heath and in the meadows, woods, and ponds 

 in its vicinity . . . compiled from the personal observations of Mr. Bliss 

 and Mr. Hunter, Lord Mansfield's steward at Ken Wood House.' This list 

 is further said to have been revised by Mr. Wheeler, ' Professor of Botany 

 to the Society of Apothecaries,' but is a very faulty affair ; 61 species are 

 enumerated, of which 19 are mosses, &c. ; of the remaining 42, not a few 

 mentioned as growing in Ken Wood, if ever there, must have been planted : 

 such are Staphylea, Pyrus domcstica, Empetrimi, Scilla verna, Tolygonatum 

 verticillatum, P. officinale, and Stijpa jpennata. Maianthemum, however, is 

 noticed there for the first time (as Convallaria bifolia). 



At p. 22 of Faulkner's Historical and Topographical Account of Fidham, 

 1813, is a list of a few plants found in 1811 'on the banks of the Thames 

 and elsewhere ' in this parish. It contains nothing of importance. 



The first British Flora arranged on the modern views of natural affinities 

 * This gentleman lived at Upton, and was a friend of Forster. 



