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subject is worth ten times as much as mine." Again 

 (Jan., 1860), " What made you believe I had set you right 

 about Spergularia ? I thought I had only said my mind 

 was not made up on the matter." (Jan. igth, 1860). "I 

 like the beginning of your Paper, but why do you lug me 

 in ?" (Jan. 28th, 1860). " About the MS. Preface [to another 

 paper], nothing occurs to me, except that you do not call 

 yourself F. L. S., and that you seem anxious to lug me into 

 it." And in effect, Mr. Newbould certainly " lugged 

 himself" out of it on more than one occasion. 



He now (winter of 1859-60) corresponded almost weekly 

 with Mr. J. G. Baker, who highly appreciated his researches 

 among the Isle of Wight plants, writing (on February ist), 

 *' You are really making so many discoveries this season 

 that you quite put the rest of us who are interested in 

 British plants to shame." Mr. Baker at the January meet- 

 ing of the Thirsk Society gave an account of some of these 

 " discoveries," including that of the Lepigonum rupicola, 

 and of an Arenaria believed to be identical with the A. 

 lloydii of Jordan ; also reporting that Mr. More's parcel 

 of plants for distribution included " a series of beautiful 

 examples of Batrachian Ranunculi " and a series of Ceras- 

 tium pumilum from Bembridge Down, the latter being 

 referred to as " this long-lost species which no doubt most 

 of our members will be very glad to have." The Report 

 also mentioned, as a feature of interest in Mr. More's 

 parcel, a grass from the Isle of Wight named " Festuca 

 pseudo-myurus var. maritima." But this appears in the 

 published account (in the " Phytologist ") only because a 

 letter requesting the contrary was too late to stay the 

 printer. 



The grass referred to was a Festuca he had noticed 

 towards the close of the previous summer growing abun- 

 dantly on St. Helen's Spit that favourite little stretch of 

 sands whose botany had so busied him as a beginner, and 

 which still remained one of his happiest hunting-fields. 

 The time of year was late for working at grasses ; but 

 still enough was observed to show differences from all the 

 described British Vulpiae, and though in his Exchange-Club 

 parcel he labelled it a variety (adopting as Professor 



