560 CATALOGUES. 



Mr. Frederick Townsend. 



11, 12. London Catalogue, edition sixth, checked for Hants 

 south and north. (His ' Flora of Hampshire,' in which these 

 lists are revised, was published too late to be used). 



Mr. E. G. Varenne. 



19. London Catalogue, edition second, checked for plants 

 seen within four miles of Kelvedon. Mr. Varenne more recently 

 has supplied me with a Manuscript List of additional plants 

 and their localities, having reference both to North and South 

 Essex, always carefully distinguished. The authority for these 

 latter is given as "Varenne ms." in contradistinction to "Va- 

 renne cat." The catalogue and list from Mr. Varenne have 

 been valuable aids to me. There is a good Flora of Essex by 

 Mr. Gr. S. Gibson ; but my own division into South and North 

 being ignored in that work, and the Author's divisions being 

 crossed by my boundary line, the Flora was here of small use 

 in placing the plants under their two vice-counties. It has 

 likewise the highly objectionable peculiarity of citing fifty per- 

 sonal authorities by initials, although surnames are scarcely 

 longer, far more clear to eye and understanding, and less liable 

 to misprint. Imagine so unwise a plan to have been adopted in 

 " Topographical Botany." How lucid, distinctive, and well 

 adapted for ready recollection, would have been the four or five 

 hundred set of initials, printed in pairs and trios, instead of 

 names ! Of course, while obliged to consult the Flora of Essex 

 and other Floras on like plan (Cambridge, Hertford, &c.), my 

 course was to regard them as promiscuous compilations un- 

 vouched, without attempting to keep in recollection all the 

 different sets of initials used in those several Floras, so 

 bewildering when brought under notice together. 



Mr. James Ward. 



65. London Catalogue, edition second, checked for plants 

 seen within three miles of Richmond, in the vice county of 



