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body of the Flora, we find that at the beginning of the century, 
when a boy at Giggleswick school, he —— the plants in the 
neighbourhood of his native town, Settle, and was rewarde 
numerous Roonaan a Pa alpina, Epipactis atrorubens, Crepis succise- 
folia, &.—duly communicated to Sir J. E. Smith and Sowerby and 
recorded in the ‘‘ English Flora,”’ and other works of the time. From 
T. W. Sim she whs medical man—who fox wasds isan as notiealiet 
to the W. Indies, wibate he died in 1804—and his companions John 
Carr, afterwards head-master of Durham school, and John Howson, 
afterwards one of the masters of Giggleswick school. In those days 
the Linnean system reigned supreme in England under Smith, and 
though in this Flora the author, ‘in conformity with the more pre- 
system ‘a sort of filial respect and attachment.” Dr. Windsor was, 
indeed, one of the last of the old school of English slg sag and, 
Sep os the adoption of the Naturai System, his book i good 
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spotted form ‘of H. pallidum (var. petechiale); an interesting - 
is given of the Gut sien ede long prevailed between this 
ee and Hypocheris maculata. "The author’s views on the two forms 
alpestre a been rdrioakly published in the Journal of 
the Linn. Soc., x., In the Cryptogamic portion much 
Eubticmation, has lay " afforded by Dr. Carrington and the late 
- Nowell.* 
It should be stated here that the Flora originally appeared as 
papers in the new series of the ‘‘ Phytologist,” from 1855—1858, 
which are here reprinted with many ecsang a and additions. The 
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‘ll be glad to possess a use: 1 with, 
in a portable form to the botany of 4 favoured locality. It is to 
e regretted that the book is not published. pi we 
tany it is perhaps worth while to make a 
reference eel ake oes meery Arcot Pines Ren. Nat, Brit. target 
mew aahaaag where will be found a good many localities for p aheateinr ae 
