268 PROFESSORS JOHN AND THOMAS MARTYN. [September, 



PROFESSOES JOHN AND THOMAS MARTIN. 



Extracts from Gorham's Memoirs of Prof essors John and Thomas 

 MartyUj with Notes and Remarks thereon. — June 5j 1862. 



Daphne Mezereum. 



'^Nothing new/^ wrote Professor Martyn to his friend Dr. 

 Pulteney (Aug. 6tli, 1777), ^^has occurred to me here^' (Little 

 Marlow, Bucks), "except that Daphne Mezereum grows wild 

 commonly in our woods." 



Can any of the readers of the ' Phytologist ' confirm the fact 

 above stated? The authority is unquestionable, but is the fact 

 itself generally known? The Professor resided during some 

 years at Little Mario w, of which parish he was then incumbent. 

 (Gorham's Memoirs of John Martyn, F.R.S., and of Thomas 

 Martyn, B.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professors of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge. Svo. 1830.) 



List of Rare Plants in Surrey. (See ' Phytologist,' June, 1883.) 



"About this time, he," Professor Thomas Martyn, "volunteered 

 his services to Mr. Bray," one of the authors of Manning and 

 Bray's History of Surrey, " by contributing" a list of rare plants 

 in Surrey for his enlarged edition of Manning's history of that 

 county. — Note. Mr, Bray completed this celebrated county 

 history. Mr. Owen Manning lived to complete only the first 

 volume; the work is in three volumes and very valuable. This 

 list is printed in vol. iii, pp. Ixv.-lxx. of that work, published in 

 1814. The plants noticed are chiefly those he met with in the 

 years 1758-59, when visiting his father at the Hill House, 

 Streatham.— Page 236. 



County Histories and County Lists of Plants. 



Professor Thomas Martyn wrote to his friend Dr. Pulteney^ 

 from Little Mario w, July 30th, 1783, on County Floras and County 

 Lists of Plants, as follows : — " Will it not be remarkable if Cam- 

 bridgeshire should have fonr Floras, viz. Ray's in 1660, Professor 

 John Martyn's in 1727, Professor Thos. Martyn's in 1763, and 

 Relhan's in 1785 [Sibthorp's ' Flora Osoniensis ' was not pub- 

 lished till 1794], before Oxfordshire has one? Is it not also re- 

 markable, that when Mr. Hasted designed to give a catalogue of 



