90 THE EEV. ANDREW BLOXAM, 



growing in Chamwood Forest and its precincts to Mr, T. R. Potter for 

 his history of that district, and in conjunction with his friend, the Rev. 

 W. H. Coleman, he contributed an admirable list to " Potter's History of 

 Leicestershire," which unfortunately has not been published. These 

 Were much aijpreciated by Mr. Watson in his researches on the distribu- 

 tion of Phajnogams in the Bx'itish Isles. His communications were not, 

 however, confined to Phaenogams, and we have now before us a plate 

 containing illustrations of two most interesting Agarics, Agaric us 

 Bahlngtonii and Agaricus Bloxami, of which the latter is one of our 

 most elegant species. It should not be passed by without notice, that in 

 the appendix to the account of the Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the 

 Sandwich Islands, iDublished by Mr. Murray, Mr. Bloxam's notes on the 

 Natural History of these islands will be read with much interest. 



Though a very constant corresiDondence took place between the 

 writer of this notice and Mr. Blosam for some years, there were but two 

 opportunities of personal communication : one in the Herbarium at Kew, 

 and the other at Rugby, on the occasion of the consecration of the new 

 Chapel, after he had left Twycross for Great Harborough. There were, 

 however, many oj)portunities of having tidings of him, which were all of 

 the most favourable character, showing how he was appreciated not only 

 for his various talents and acquisition of valuable information which 

 always naade him a welcome guest, but for that kind and amiable dis- 

 position which at Rugby made him a favoui-ite of all who were thrown 

 into communication with him. There is a chalk drawing of him by his 

 uncle. Sir Thomas Lawrence, which was taken in 1824, previous to his 

 starting for the Sandwich Islands. A daguerreotype likeness was 

 engraved for the contemplated History of Leicestershire, which was, 

 however, never pubhshod. There is also a water-coloiu* drawing by the 

 late eminent painter, Turner, in the National Gallery, rej^rescnting the 

 grouj) of the six brothers attending the funeral of their uncle, Sir T. 

 Lawrence. 



Mr. Bloxam married Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Roby, of 

 Congerstoue, in the county of Leicester, (a descendant of Nehemiah 

 Grow, who in 1G71 dedicated the first book of his "Anatomy of Plants" 

 to the celebrated John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester,) and by her had a 

 numerous family. 



t>EOFESSOK EDWAKD FORBES AND HIS COUNTRY. 



BY ROBERT GARNER, F.L.S. 



{^Continued from jyage 70.'] 



The Maritime Flora is more ample in species than the Lowland oi* 



Upland, probably as rich as that of any portion of tho British Isles of 



the Bame size. There are about 100 species of flowering shore-plants 



Wound oui* Islands, and more than sixty of these are found around the Isle 



