ROBERT POCOCK. 217 



Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, 

 The love he bore to learning was in fault ; 

 The village all declared how much he knew, 

 'Twas certain he could write and cypher too ; 

 Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, 

 And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. 



Having now completed all that has been recovered 

 of his Journals, we come to the MS. which our unwearied 

 author had (p. 199 supra) expressed his ^intention of 

 publishing. It is entitled 



OBSERVATIONS 



and 

 MEMORANDA 



in 



BOTANY. 



By Robert Pocock, 



Printer and Bookseller, 



Gravesend, 



Kent. 



1821. 



And in a later part of this MS. he has, amongst other 

 information, made the following entry : 



et Rare plants found by R. Pocock, in the vicinity 

 of Gravesend, not generally mentioned by authors, 

 nor in his ( History of Gravesend :' 



" Scirpus sitaceus. At reservoir, Randall Wood. 



" Caucalis daucoides. White Hill Field, near to 

 Thong Lane. 



" Echinophora spinosa. Marshes, bottom of Gaily 

 Hill Lane, north. 



"Isatis tinctoria. In Randall Wood, five or six 

 plants (1820). 



" Lepidium ruderale. Northfleet Dockyard. 



