314 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
168. H. brevirostre, Ehrh. ; woods near Stokenchurch and Henley ; rare. 
ovember. 
169. H. squarrosum, L. ; common ; fruit rare; Coombe Wood, Wych- 
wood Forest ; "Bagley Wood, Berks. November. 
170. H. triquetrum, abundant in woods: fruit rare; Headington 
Wick Copse, Grave Hill Wood, Wychwood Forest. 
; November, December. 
171. H. loreum, Dill. ; woods near Henley, Watlington and Stoken- 
auth. barren. 
; Sphagnide. 
172. Sphagnum acutifolium, xum. ; Powder Hill Copse, amongst grass 
uuder shade of bush 
178. S. recurvum, Beauv ; (S. " Mougéotii, Schimp.) ; Wy chwood, near 
ai P peek . ‘near Wootton, Berks, with S. cymbifolium 
lj4. S. rmm, Di. "Ehrh.; ; Wyehwood Forest (starved) ; bog near 
Wootton, and Bagle ey Wood, Berks. 
se three are nearly destroyed ; the few plants that remain 
being merely the sad survivors of a state of things passed 
ite fy 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Sowersy’s “ ExcLrisH BorANY."—In the biographies attached by 
the Secretaries to the Anniversary Address delivered by the President of 
the payee Society on the 24th of May, 1872, occurs the following 
T tion :—* James a the father, was the author of the 
his father in 1822. It is no injustice to the several eminent botanists 
who, from Sir J. Smith downwards, have been associated with- the 
Sowerbys in the * English Botany’ in furnishing the literary Ley 
of the plant, to say that Es great and enduring scientific the 
work consists in the figure In February, 1893, I was Mero as a 
Fellow of the aian Society. My Demo was signed by A. 
Haworth, N. A. Vigors, J. F. Ste tephens, Joseph Goodall ( Provost of 
dux. College), Richard Latham, Edward Griffith, and R. A. Salisbury, 
and o February, 1822, thete was an extra large meeting, and f 
was ea by a very large majority. If the slightest hint had been 
given to any of m my proposers I should have immediately withdrawn, as 
I could ill afford the subscription. Only a few of the proposers were 
present, they made so sure o my election ; the rejection of a candidate 
being a very rare event. I only recollect one besides myself. ‘The list of 
pw rs—all persons doing their uttermost to improve Zoolog and 
tany—may have frightened the regular “ Linnzeans," of whom Dr. Shaw 
s be considered the type, and who pr putting. his heel on all 
shells not in the 12th edition of the ‘ Systema Nature :' ‘ Things not 
in Linnzeus ought not to exist.” It was, however, too bad to ‘inflict 
