16 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Sibthorp, written about 1780, containing a list of plants observed 
** circa Oxford,” smicn actually precede mauy of the early records 
given in the F’ 
During the pois of the British Association at Cambridge, in 
1904, I took the opportunity of examining Professor Babington 
herbarium, sha is now preserved in the. new Botanical raat 
and He f the University. The herbarium is a large and 
very rabeablD Gilectan of, I should say, over 6000 sheets, ah 
Salopian plants are also numerous. The specimens collected by 
Professor Babington in the Channel Islands. are also included, and 
there are many sheets from the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 
There are but very few examples from the valley of the Upper 
Thames, Babington having apparently only visited the district in 
1847. se the counties which are well represented is Pembroke- 
shire; and there are a considerable number from Leicestershire, 
with which the Professor's family had been long connected. 
student of the British flora who wishes to make himself acquainted 
with the range of variation and the distribution of British plants 
can afford to neglec t this extremely ble collection now, through 
the generosity of — Babington, ‘stored in an accessible herbarium. 
coin spe following list an asterisk denotes that the plant is new to 
the Flor 
Rance heterophyllus Weber. 5. Farley Hill. — R. Drouetii 
¥F. Schultz. 5. Loddon, Jackson (I have ~ — specimens).— 
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R. Lingua Le 1. Near Buckland, Dr. Shad es near 
Long Bridges, Oxford, H. Baker. 8. Fates “As Waterisise, 
1898 (Journ. Bot. 1902, 263). — R. bulbosus Li. var. brachiatus 
Naeem 4, Boxford. — R. acris i. var. Boreanus (Jord.). 4. 
Welford.— parviflorus L. 2. Sandford, Miss VM. Niven. 5. Park 
Place, Stan 
: Dilphiniume Ajacis. ieichb- 2. Near West Hendred, ina corn- 
soe nite ee 5. Near Cookham. Casual. 
Napelius L. 4. Welford Park, Osmond Cian saad 
cali eis re, Pied occurring in great quantity, but: I think only the 
relic of cultivation. 
-  Berberis vulgaris L. 2. Near Abingdon. 4, Beenham, Rev. 
Hl, Summers. 
- Papaver somniferum L. 2. By the river near Clifton Hampden. 
Abundant a8 ae railway between Didcot and Cholsey.—P. dubium 
L. *var. collinum Boenn. 2. Hinksey ; : named for me by the late 
Herr Freyn. 
Capnoides elaetculide Druce. 3. In a hedge bordering King’s 
Copse, Clay Hill, which i is near “Stanford Dingley, 4. Wallis. 
Fumaria Borai Jord. *var. muraleformis Clavaud (the F’. muralis 
of the Berkshire Flora, according to Mr. Pugsle ey). 5. Karly. 
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