MEMOIR OF DAVEY. Xin. 



plant. He acted as distributor to the Club in 1908. To the 

 short-lived Cornish Magazine, Vol. II., 1899, he contributed an 

 article on the plants growing in the grounds of Penjerrick, near 

 Falmouth. 



In the local press Davey frequently wrote popular articles, 

 which undoubtedly stimulated interest in the Cornish Flora. He 

 occasionally delivered excellent popular lectures on Nature 

 subjects in various parts of the County. At the Central Technical 

 Schools for Cornwall at Truro he lectured on Botany during the 

 session 1904-5, and was at one time examiner in Agricultural 

 Botany to the Cornwall County Council. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1903, and was then its youngest 

 Fellow. When the South London Botanical Institute was 

 founded in 1911, he was appointed one of the eleven original 

 Fellows. 



His most successful work was with the genus Fumaria. He 

 discovered at least one new species, F. neglecta, Pugsley, and 

 possibly another, determined by Dr. Fedde as a continental 

 species, F. major, Badarro, but named by Mr. Pugsley as a new 

 plant, F. paradoxa, Pugsley. In either case, the plant was new 

 to the British Isles. He also added Fumaria purpurea, Pugsley, 

 to the Cornish Flora. His next best work was with the Brambles 

 (Rubi), he being the discoverer of no less than nine new to the 

 County. In the genus Euphrasia he introduced to science a new 

 critical species, E. Vigursii, Davey. He also added a variety in 

 Poly gala serpyllacea, var. vincoides, Chodat. His further addi- 

 tions to the Cornish Flora included Ranunculus trichophyllus 

 and heterophyllus, Reseda inodora, Viola calcarea, LJlex Gallii, 

 var. humilis, a Potentilla hybrid, Matricaria suaveolens (M. dis- 

 coidea), which has now become a common Cornish weed, Gen- 

 tiana lingulata, a Verbascum hybrid, Omphalodes verna, 

 Mimulus moschatus, Veronica peregrina, Euphrasia borealis, a 

 Salix hybrid, Lemna gibba, Agrostis verticillata, and many other 

 British varieties and hybrids, and aliens. 



His best field work was done in the years 1906 and 1907, by 

 which time he had acquired a sound knowledge of plants. His 

 health was then fairly good, and he was not deeply engaged in 

 the clerical work of the Flora. He took no interest in Cryptogamic 

 botany apart from the Pteridophyta and Characece. 



After the strenuous work of preparing the Flora, and passing 

 it through the press, his field botany naturally slackened to some 

 extent. In August, 1911, he very efficiently conducted the In- 

 ternational Phytogeographical Excursion through the Lizard 

 district and other parts of West Cornwall. This was carried 



