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which he visited in 1891; during this visit he collected, at Quebec, 
his Euphrasia canadensis, which he described and figured in this 
Journal for 1898 (p. 1, tab. 881 
Townsend’s life at Honington is summed up in a local news- 
paper as that of ‘‘a generous Predlord and an ideal country squire.’ 
hurchm i 
geo he continued to represent the division until 1892 
ring his visits to London, Townsend frequently consulted the 
National ‘Herbarium at the British Museum, where he was always 
a welcome visit Hi t intimate botanical friend, however, 
Madingley, Cambridgeshire, on one of Henslow’s cal excur- 
sions ab 46, and ‘‘immediately fraternized.” The intimacy 
thus begun was d until Newbould’s death id lo 
latter place he undertook clerical duty during a vacancy in 
family living.* 
Well read and endowed with various accomplishments, Townsend 
was modest and retiring in character; indeed, one who knew him 
intimately re eae humility as his most striking characteristic. 
The respect an em which he was held by all classes at 
Honington ‘ound’ scpeaea in the various local papers, which vie 
in their appreciation of his ‘generous, kindly nature,” his “ high 
culture and ee ideals. 
_ Townsend became a Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edin- 
ne in 1846, and of the Linnean Society in ae ; he was also a 
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botanical library have been placed in the hands of Mr. A. 0. Hume, 
in trust for the scientific arse aig projected for South London 
The portrait accompanying this notice is —<— an excellent 
photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry, taken in 1896. 
James BritrEn. 
SOMERSET PLANT-NOTES FOR °1905. 
By Rev. E. S. Marsnatu, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tue material for this paper, which is mostly additional to my 
old friend Rev. R. P. Murray’s excellent Flora of the county (re- 
ferred to below as Fl. Som.), was gollautad in the spring and early 
summer of last year. The brambles of my present me tthe 
‘near Taunton) look decidedly interesting; but their flow 
season was unusually short, and they were mostly over by the ding 
* The biogra: graphy o} of ale in sehen be tie for 1886, pp. 161-174, contains 
various deta 0 botanists. = 
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