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and simplicity of his manners, by his unaffected readiness to communicate informa- 

 tion, and by his generous ardour in behalf of every object and institution connected 

 with the diffusion of knowledge, and with the extension of the means of human 

 •virtue and happiness. Those who knew him most intimately can best appreciate his 

 genuine piety and benevolence of heart, which formed the animating principle of his 

 character, and pervaded every relation of his domestic life. By his associates in the 

 Literary and Philosophical, the Natural History and Geological Societies of Man- 

 chester, his memory will be warmly cherished ; and his death will be deeply regretted 

 by the most distinguished members of the British Association, especially when they 

 assemble in this town next year. His communications to the transactions of the 

 Linnean, Geological, and other Societies, will fonn lasting evidence of his acquire- 

 ments, and valuable memorials to his relatives and friends." — From the Shrewsbury 

 News of Saturday, December 18, 1841. 



114. Locality of Trifolium stellatum. It will be satisfactory to your correspondent 

 Mr. Salmon (Phytol. p. 130), to learn that Trifolium stellatum is not lost at Shore- 

 ham, but still comes up in abundance every spring in its first-observed station — a low 

 line of ballast-heaps, deposited, I am assured, before any present inhabitant of Shore- 

 ham can recollect, between the river and the wide bed of shingle on the seaward side 

 of the river, overagainst the east end of the town. The plant flowers early, and a less 

 abundant second crop is usually to be seen in the latter summer months. I once, 

 several years ago, met with a few specimens among the shingle, overagainst South- 

 wick; and again, on a part, now occupied by a quay, of the landward shore of the ri- 

 ver, at Kingston. The immediate neighbourhood produces several plants worthy of 

 notice, which Mr. Salmon has not enumerated ; among them are Salicoruia radicans, 

 Poa bulbosa, distans, procumbens and Borreri, Festuca uniglumis, Medicago denticu- 

 lata and Borkhausia fcetida. Vicia bithynica, which grew formerly near Southwick, is 

 now, I fear, lost ; as well as Chrysocoma Linosyris, of which Mr. Trevelyan found a single 

 plant about 1825. Of the plants mentioned by Mr. Salmon, I never saw there Statice 

 spathulata, Juncus acutus or Coronopus didyma. The first of these grows near Rot- 

 tingdean ; the other two in the West of Sussex. — W. Borrer; Henfield, Jan. 21, 1842. 



115. Anagallis arvensis and ccerulea. Five or six years ago I planted a root of the 

 latter in a garden, and saved the seed, which I sowed the following spring; a consi- 

 derable number of the plants now come up annually from self-sown seed, but always 

 with blue corollas ; not a single specimen of the red variety ever making its appear- 

 ance in the garden. — G. H. K. Thwaites ; 2, lungsdoivn Parade, Bristol, Jan. 26, 1842. 



116. Note on Crocus vernus and C. nudiflorus. It may probably be no uncommon 

 thing to meet with individual specimens of the wild Crocus having more than the 

 regular number of stamens, divisions of the perianth, &c., but as I am not aware 

 whether this is the case, I wish to mention that in March last, when I visited the Not- 

 tingham meadows for the long-desired pleasure of gathering Crocus vernus, I met 

 with three specimens having four stamens, four lobes to the stigma and eight segments 

 to the perianth ; also one, having five stamens, five lobes to the stigma and ten seg- 

 ments to the perianth. Can you or any of your correspondents inform me whether 

 the leaves of Crocus nudiflorus are to be looked for at the same time as the flowers of 

 C. vernus, or late in the autumn after its own flowering ? I saw many large patches 

 of leaves, indeed the turf of the meadows seemed in great measure composed of them, 

 and I hoped that they might belong to C. nudiflorus, but on digging for the roots, 

 they were apparently too young for flowering, and differing in no respect hut greater 



