133 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
men like himself who had been unable to complete their classical 
studies. 
eeby made his mark earlier than most, and few mistakes 
could be laid to his charge. A propos of Taraxacum, on which he 
had promised the Editor a 8 only the other day, he wrote to 
: “ What I know, I know”; this remark was both tr 
characteristic. His chmsaaliy acute mind seemed instinctively to 
sp the salient points of any critical form; and this advantage 
was combined with that labor lime which is distasteful to most 
mee ee people. 
many years Beeby was engaged in the preparation of a new 
Flora. of Surrey, systematically visiting the less known and more 
unpromising parts of the county and making exhaustive lists a 
even the commonest plants; for he was no mere rarity-hunt 
though so successful in his discoveries. Finding that his on 
time was insufficient for the editorial work, he offered to hand 
and an unri acquaintance with some genera, Beeby does not 
seem to have paid much attention to Rubus and Rosa, which he 
ised me, when almost a beginner, to let alone for a time. 
So far as 1 am aware, he never visited Ireland. 
__Hrom the London Catalogue I have mainly compiled the 
icllewing list, probably incomplete, of the numerous additions 
made by him to our list:—Cochlearia grenlandica L.; Sisym- 
briwm officinale Scop. var. Jeioca rpum DC.; Viola hirta L. forma 
lac 
Wahist. & Murb. and pe nemorosa Neum, Wahlst & Murb.; 
Arenaria peploides L. var. diffusa Hornem. ; Hypericum pulchrum 
: icago lupuli 
Allionu DC.; Spirea Ulmaria _L. var. denudata Boenn. ; Calli- 
ng ile ae te dpahape:a: goods ariety—it remained 
