166 



Aster Tripolium, Lytham marshes. Euphorbia Paralias, Star hills. 



Solidago Virgaurea, Lytham Common. Helioscopia. 



Pulicaria dysenterica. Sparganium ramosum and simplex. 



Orchis latifolia, Lytham Common. Urtica pilulifera, pastures near the sea. 



Listera ovata, ditto. Myriophyllum spicatum. 



Epipactis latifolia, ditto. Asplenium Ruta-muraria. 



palustris, ditto, abundant. — N. Buckley ; 22, Grafton St. Fitzroy 



Square, October 18, 1841. 



112. Enquiry respecting Sieher''s ' Synopsis Filicum? Is it in accordance with the 

 plan of ' The Phytologist ' to make such an enquiry as the following to the readers of 

 that useful periodical ? On Sieber's return from Martinique and the West India 

 Islands, he brought back a number of specimens of ferns, an account of which was 

 published under the title of ' Synopsis Filicum,' and numbered. This is not the ' Sy- 

 nopsis Filicum ' of Swartz, and I suspect it was a paper published in some foreign 

 periodical. Can any of your readers inform me where Sieber's ' Synopsis Filicum ' is 

 to be met with ? Sieber's ferns are well known, and his ' Syn. Fil.' is referred to by 

 Kaulfuss and Presl ; but I can nowhere meet with any account of it. Sieber's name 

 is mentioned as an authority in the Addenda to Linnseus's ' Systema Vegetabilium,' 

 edited by Sprengel, or the second part of the 4th vol. — J. Riley ; Papplewick, October 

 28, 1841. 



[Mr. W. Pamplin has kindly sent us the following reply to the above enquiry ; we 

 shall be glad to receive further information on the subject from any correspondent]. 



Sieber''s Ferns. To the best of my belief the citation of " Sieber, Synopsis 

 Filicum," in Presl, Sprengel, and others, does not apply to any printed publication, but 

 rather to the numbers upon the printed tickets which accompany his collections of 

 specimens distributed among individual purchasers. — W. P. 



113. Death of J. E. Bowman, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., Src The readers of the Neivs 

 will perceive in our obituary of this week the death of our estimable and respected 

 townsman, John Eddowes Bowman, Esq., which melancholy event took place at his 

 residence near Manchester. The Manchester Guardian of the 1 Ith instant pays the 

 following just tribute to the benevolent character and literary acquirements of the 

 deceased, and which we insert in preference to giving any lengthened eulogy of our 

 o^n : — " The death of this very intelligent and excellent gentleman , which was noticed 

 in our last number, will be a great loss to science. He was indefatigable in the pur- 

 suit of knowledge, and his time and talents were most willingly devoted to its advance- 

 ment. In his botanical and geological investigations he displayed a perseverance, 

 activity, and acuteness, seldom surpassed ; and he had no greater pleasure than in the 

 discovery and communication of any new fact illustrative of the wisdom, power, or 

 benevolence of the Deity. Soon after the commencement of his residence in Man- 

 chester, he became intimately acquainted with the dififerent cultivators of kindred 

 studies : and by the activity of his mind, and his zeal for the promotion of knowledge, 

 no less than by the accuracy and solidity of his own acquirements, proved one of the 

 most valuable and efficient members of the principal scientific institutions of this 

 town and neighbourhood. His exemption from the absorbing avocations of business 

 enabled him to concentrate his whole attention on objects of science, and to afford a 

 kind and degree of assistance in promoting them, which few others had it in their 

 power to give, and which it will not be easy to replace. To those who had the happi- 

 ness of enjoying his private friendship he was endeared by the amiable cheerfulness 



