392 Miscellaneous. 



Piedmontese Plants. 



Dr. Rostan, an excellent botanist, residing at Perrier, in one of the 

 Vaudois valleys in Piedmont, who, besides other additions to the 

 native flora, has rediscovered several plants not known to botanists 

 since the time of Allioni, proposes to publish a collection of 200 spe- 

 cies of dried plants, to include the greater part of the rare and less- 

 known species of Western Piedmont. In the list will be found 

 Arabis pedemontana, Boiss., Isatis alpina, All., Dianthus furcatus, 

 Balb., Cerastium lineare, All., Trifolinm pannonicum, L., Ribes 

 purpureum, Rost., Saxifraga valdensis, DC, Centaurea Kotschyana, 

 Heuff., Campanula Elatines, L., Gentiana Rostani, Reut., Veronica 

 succulenta, All., Allium valdensium, Reut., and many other very rare 

 species. 



The parcels will be carefully made up, the specimens well dried, 

 and several will be given of each of the smaller species. 



The price to subscribers who send their names to Dr. Rostan be- 

 fore the 1st of August, 1863, will be 40 francs = 32 shillings. Price 

 to non-subscribers £2 ; in each case exclusive of carriage. 



Address applications, post-paid, to Dr. Rostan, Perrier, via, Pignerol, 

 Piedmont. It will facilitate the transmission of the parcels if each 

 applicant will give an address in London to which they may be 

 forwarded. 



Obituary Notice. — William Groves Perry. 



Died on the 25th of March, 1863, at his residence in New Street, 

 Warwick, Mr. William Groves Perry, at the age of sixty-seven. He 

 was one of the early contributors to Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural 

 History,' and a Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In 

 1820 he published a work called ' Plantae Varvicenses Selectee,' or 

 'The Botanist's Guide through the County of Warwick,' which, 

 following the 'Flora Midlandica' of Dr. Purton, made considerable 

 additions to what related to the Warwickshire species included in 

 that work, more especially in noting the localities with greater pre- 

 cision. With a view to still greater exactness in this particular, a 

 table was added, showing the distance of the several localities from 

 the nearest market town. This little work was never so well known 

 as it deserved to be, owing probably to its having been published by 

 the author himself at Warwick : it has, however, been long since out of 

 print ; and a second edition was in progress at the time of Mr. Perry's 

 death, which we hope some day to see completed and published. 



In addition to his botanical studies, Mr. Perry possessed consider- 

 able antiquarian knowledge, and was for many years Honorary 

 Secretary of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological 

 Society. As one of the early contributors to a periodical of which 

 the present may be regarded as the continuation, we think this no- 

 tice of his labours and of his death a proper introduction into our 

 pages ; and we are sure that all those with whom he was acquainted, 

 and to whom his unvarying kindness of disposition and liberality in 

 imparting information were known, will feel grateful for its appear- 

 ance here. 



