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kindness and sympathy with others; indeed, to such even the 
above sano may read harshly, and seem to convey a false 
impres 
Pre ie is not the place in which to speak of his many acts of 
generosity and kindness, manifested chiefly, though not entirely, 
to his poorer co- religionists, and fully displayed in the disposition 
of his personal property. But the Soe of this Journal will be 
been expended is not to remain unpublished. With his botanical 
library, his herbarium, and a bequest in money, this was willed - 
to the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. The library is 
extensive; the herbarium is comparatively small, but is supple- 
mented by that of the Rev. W. H. Coleman, which Mrs. Webb has 
SS. sar peu the British Museum po erage toi 
f Mr. Pryor’s specimens. 
h 
press, it will form a valuable and important addition to the list 
of county floras. Mrs. Alfred Pryor, Mr. Pryor’s mother, has 
generously offered to contribute to the cost of its production. A 
prospectus of the work will shortly be issued, giving additional 
particulars. 
James Brirren. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Puantaco arenarta, W. & K.—In the month of August, 1879, I 
gathered this cg in ‘ereat aia in the sandy flelds between 
the ro x and the sea at 8. Brelade’s, Jersey. There must have 
any hun died plants, and it appeared to ray thoroughly 
established, and not on, or near, ballast.—Henry T, Menneuu. 
OCALITY FOR CHARA sTELLIGERA, Bauer.—On the 8th of 
species of the genus, the most abundant of all, and with 
cules in fair number. This is about six — from Filby 
Broad, its first- pees aa station.— Arruur Benn 
A TENUIssimA, Kiitz ii Cideumrbes ESHIRE.—Larly in this 
UE (August) I gathered chia rare little Nitella in Burwell Fen, 
Cambridgeshire, where it was growing with Chara aspera, Willd., 
—a_ plant not given for the sonny in Prof. Babington’s 
‘Flora’ nor in the Messrs. Groves’s ‘Review,’—C. fwtida and 
C. hispida. Prof. Babington had not known of its being gathered 
for Frias than twenty years,” so Mr. Lynch wrote last year.— 
THUR Benner, 
