176 buddle's herbarium. [June, 



little further down, under Orchis hircina, we read: — "Mem., 

 July, 1763. Miller's Satyrium, No. 2, noAV in bloom in my 

 garden, three feet high, above fifty flowers." Again, under 

 Orchis pyramidalis, we find this curious note by Mr. Dillwyn : 

 " In the 'Daily Adverstiser' for July 4, 1768, Orchis pyrami- 

 dalis appears in a list of plants stolen from Mr. P. CoUinson, 

 and there are memoranda of many imperfectly defined species, 

 sufficient to show that he possessed a large collection of the more 

 hardy Orchises." 



KESULTS OF A. FEW HOURS' RESEAECH IN BUDDLE'S 

 HEEBARIUM. 



This collection, sometimes quoted by Sir J. E. Smith, in his 

 excellent work on the British Plants, forms a portion of the 

 immense herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane, probably the largest 

 contribution to science made by any single private individual of 

 the age in which this eminent naturalist lived. The volume is 

 numbered, and there is a manuscript catalogue of the contents 

 in the rooms containing the Banksian Herbarium, and this cata- 

 logue may be readily consulted. 



The specimens in Buddie's Herbarium are arranged after the 

 system of Ray in his ' Synopsis.' 



The following doubtful species occur : — 



1. Sorbus, or Pyrus domestica, from hilly places in Cornwall, 

 sent by Walter Moyle, Esq., and Mr. Stevens, of that county. 

 See Ray's ' Synopsis,' ed. 1696, pp. 295. Smith, Sir J. E., 

 states, in loco, 'English Flora,' p. 36'4,vol.ii.: "In the mountainous 

 parts of Cornwall, many places, according to Mr. Moyle and Mr. 

 Stevens." 



2. Scilla bifolia, without a locality, but supposed to be a wild 

 plant, because associated with other acknowledged British spon- 

 taneous productions. 



3. It is now clearly ascertained that the specimen of Tordy- 

 lium in Buddie's Herbarium is not anything but T. maximum. 

 Though entered by Sir J. E. Smith as seen at Isleworth by Mr. 

 Doody (see Eng. Fl. ii. 104), it is clear that he considers T. 

 officinale, as entered in Buddie, to have been only T. maximum. 



