70 IN MEMoiiiAM. [Mm'ch, 



quantity of shoots of the weed in question, springing from a thick 

 body buried in the sand. This proved to be a cylindrical stem, 

 round which were four to six sessile, round, leathery scales, with 

 a toothed base and lengthened point. From the short spaces 

 between these scales, sometimes from the axil of one of them, 

 grew a young stem with leaves and rootlets, but only one, the 

 buds visible in the axils of the other scales remaining unde- 

 veloped. 



The accompanying drawing, which I made at the time, gives 

 a tolerably correct representation of it. 



IN MEMOEIAM. 



In Memory of the late William Borrer, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 of Henfield. 



" Can flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? " 



The brief obituary on the 64th page of the present volume 

 tells us, in plain terms, that there is no dallying with death ; to 

 the reflective reader it will bear the same message that the pro- 

 phet delivered to the king, viz. " Set your house in order," for no 

 one can say who may be the next victim. 



" Death's shafts fly thick. . . . 

 On this side and on that men see their friends 

 Drop ofi'like leaves in autumn. 

 Oh, slippery state of things !" 



While it is just and becoming, to acknowledge our individual 

 and personal obligations to him who has recently departed, and 

 to sympathize with his relatives who have suffered this bereave- 

 ment, and to condole with his numerous surviving friends, so far 

 as is tolerated by the usages of society, our main object will be 

 to exhibit, in these short and simple records of a good man's life, 

 a subject not for the admiration but rather for the imitation of 

 his contemporaries and posterity. 



The lovers of nature, or, as they may be more correctly called, 

 the admirers of the visible creation, who contemplate and enjoy 

 the manifold works of the Creator, and who in the broad page of 

 this book of knowledge learn the power, wisdom, and goodness of 

 the almighty hand which made them, have no immunity from 



