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■ Of Dr. Bromfield's travels in Palestine little is yet known : it is to 

 be hoped his journal, when it comes to hand, will reveal more of his 

 last days and thoughts. He passed some little time at Jerusalem, 

 which he reached on the 1 4th of August ; and he is supposed to have 

 visited Bethlehem, Sychar, the Dead Sea, and Jericho. He went to 

 Beirout, which he intended leaving on the 28th of September, for 

 Damascus and Baalbec, after which he meant to return to Beirout, and 

 from which he intended to return to Europe by the first opportunity. 



At Damascus, he arrived on the 5th of October, being at that time 

 dangerously ill, either with malignant typhus fever, or, as was sup- 

 posed at Damascus, from the effects of the sun while journeying from 

 Beirout to Baalbec. While ill, he was most assiduously and kindly 

 attended on by Mr. G. Moore, an English traveller, and by the Rev. 

 Mr. Barnett, an American missionary. He only sur\'ived his arrival 

 at Damascus a very few days, having sunk on the 9th of October. 

 His remains were shortly after interred in the Christian cemetery, "J 

 without the city. 



Dr. Brorafield was never married, his nearest surviving relative 

 being an only sister, to whom he was devotedly attached, and with 

 whom, with the occasional exceptions of the periods of his travels, he 

 had lived from the time of his mother's death, in 1832. 



Dr. Bromfield's additions to the British flora are : — Spartina alter- 

 niflora,* which he discovered at Southampton, in the year 1836 ; 

 Myriophyllum alterniflorum,t near Brading, in the Isle of Wight, 

 about 1846 ; Calamintha sylvatica,| a new species, in the Isle of 

 Wight, in 1843 ; and Atriplex hortensis,§ a doubtful native, near 

 Ryde, in 1845. He also much assisted the Rev. W. Leighton in dis- 

 tinguishing Prunus CerasusH from Prunus Avium. Lastly, in 1850, he 

 first drew attention to a form of Luzula** which he had observed some 

 years in the Isle of Wight, and which, should it ultimately prove dis- 

 tinct, he intended naming Luzula Borreri, as a name suitably accom- 

 panying that of Luzula Forsteri. 



* Hooker's ' Companion lo the Botanical Magazine,' ii. p. 254. 



t Phytol. iii. 369. t Id. ii. 49. § Id. ii. 330. 



% Leighton's Fl. Shrop. p. 526. ** Phytol. iii. 983. 



