866 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF SELBORNE. 
species — several others then extant) have long since dis- 
appeared 
Such ‘plants as Herniaria glabra, Arnoseris pusilla, Centunculus 
minimus, &¢., I have given up in despair, though long sustained in 
f hat they 
ely to be refound.” Possibly they may be, but my own ex- 
perience fosters the belief that in the meanwhile others are far 
more likely to be missing than those to be refound. In fact, 
should the ah rate of loss continue, twenty years hence it will 
not require a a . volume in which to record the then 
existing Flora of Middlesex 
NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF SELBORNE. 
By rae Rey. Joun Vavenan, M.A. 
Tus paper was originally written with a view to its appearing 
among the ‘Proceedings’ of the Hants Field Club; but that 
to 
interest to those—and they are many—who venerate the name of 
Gilbert oy and to whee the neighbourhood of Selborne is 
I have not thought it necessary t lete list of th 
ry to give a complete list of the 
local flora - It has rather been my desire to mention the Din and 
on. 
3 Some a e plants: sichieonsd by Gilbert White, and by the 
in 
Scarce, owing to its set taken up for sale by 
Nore Hill, Selborn 
4 Cultivated ground, Alton, 1887. — *f. 
Cultivated ons Alton, 1887. — *F. micrantha 
| ground, Alton, 
884. 
On June 11th, 1885, I found several 
