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and the gravel-pit I believe to be levelled and cultivated” (Fl. 
Cambs. 127 (1860) ). The pa Botany figure is curiously unlike 
the ordinary form of the plant, which is the more strange in that 
the ppeenens from which it was ne aN are quite typical. 
Norrork.—The first record seems to be that in ed. ii. of Hooker’s 
British pee p. 855 (1831): “Fields, Larlingford, Norfolk. Rey. 
G. R. Leathes.”” The locality is repeated in 'rimmer’s Flora of 
the aia aie but on with a reference to Hooker’s Flora. 
Sur —‘‘ Ver e: Kriswell,’’ Henslow & Skepper, Fl. 
Suffolk, 45 (1860), te "Hinds? Fl. Suffolk it is entered as ‘now 
extinct,”’ but it is stated to have been found at Eriswell by F. K. 
Eagle in 1852; a specimen from him is in Miss Lathbury’s 
herbarium (Hinds, l.c.), and another in Herb. Brit. Mus. Mr 
Arthur Bennett, however, in this Journal (p. 323) says that in 
August, 1896, Mr. Burkill had a fragment sent him for identification 
from Mildenhall, which is within a short distance = Eriswell. Mr. 
Burkill can supply no further information about i 
The plant is recorded on Sherard’s authority i Ray’s Synopsis, 
ed. 2, p. 82 (1696), as roe ‘in the Isle of Jersey on dry banks 
and ails, very common.” We have a specimen from Samuel Dale, 
labelled ‘‘a Dito Rand accepi Anno 1714. Anglie est indigena”’ 
but this may refer to = a4 locality, which would by that time 
have become well kno There are specimens in Herb. Banks 
collected by Gosselin in iy eivoay in 1790. peat (Specimen 
oo, p- 28 (1746) ), records it from ‘‘a mile 
or Rocks, Sussex. Mr. Hill ’’—a locality in hick. according 
TH. Cooper (Sopa to pre s History of Sussex (1835) ) 
as faved a Watson (Cyb. Brit. ii. 101), Mr. Borrer sought it in 
vain. ‘This was probably an erroneoa record ; while 3 in the Liver- 
pool locality—‘‘on the site of the old Botanic Garden at Crown- 
street’ (Hall, Fil. Lively: e (1839) )—it was of course a mere 
introduction. 
WILLIAM PAMPLIN—1806-1899. 
On August 5th there died at the village of Liandderfel, near 
Bala, in Merionethshire, in his ninety- third year, one who, while 
himse botanist, was probably as well known among the 
leading botanists of the middle of the paged as any one of them- 
selves. This was William Pamplin, who at one time carried on 
the business of a botanical publisher and bookseller at 45, Frith 
Street, Soho Square, now conducted i Messrs. Dulau & Co. 
