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He is described as “a quiet, country-loving man,” but it does not 
appear that he in any way distinguished himself as a botanist; 
his name, indeed, is only associated with the addition of Linosyris 
to the British Flora in 1812 (see Eng. Bot. t. 2505). 
Hp 9 of his family will be found in Burke’s Landed 
Gentry (ed. 5, p. 634). 
SHORT NOTES. 
BERKSHIRE Prants.—Hardly had the last note on the Berk- 
shire Flora been penned when mee pleasing intelligence came to 
me that my friend Mr. C. P. Hurst had discovered et bets ee 
altermifoinum L. in a wood near + Gibbet Hill, in district 4 Kennet, 
very interesting addition to our rae In J uly, Mr. J. R. W. B. 
Tomb, of Reading, sent me a plan gene which he found 
on a common between Sida and New ay) ; this proved to 
be Pr tee Dersicifolia, I therefore went over to see under 
what conditions it grew. e common is a large ae, and in one 
place has a poecierebts quantity of ee Cyparissias ; thi 
grows on the northern side, but spreads for s dista 
I have considered the plant to be native; as it is, this 
locality i cial interest as showing it in a completely 
naturalized, if not indigenous, condi ay al; d that I 
Miller and var. alba on Brimpton Common, Glyceria distans Wahl. 
peeaeotly on the racecourse - Abingdon, Carex strigosa Huds. 
by the Loddon near Sandford Bridge, and, in company with Mr. 
aition, Cirsium eriophorum Scop. in great quantity on the hill- 
side above ne on ar Berkshire side of the Thames.— 
G. CLARIDGE 
SAXIFRAGA cath X SERRATIFOLIA (p. fk —Not are sent 
hi 
Raton broader, ‘flat ttened p 
Conca AUTUMNALE i (p. 203).—I must emphatically 
. or Borany.—Vot. 48. [Sepr. 1910.] ¥ 
