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giving it undue prominence to the exclusion of others, in which, 
however, those who have studied the Central European forms of 
this difficult. genus do not follow him. In the few specimens, with 
JOHN CLAVELL MANSEL-PLEYDELL, F.G.S8., F.L.8. 
Descended from a family which includes such names as Philip 
Mansel, who came over with William I.; Robert Mansel, whose 
to attribute the development of this taste to the Rev. Henry Walter, 
Rector of Haselbury Bryan, previously Fellow of St. John’s, Cam- 
bridge, and a Professor of Natural Philosophy, under whose tuition 
Sar ee placed before going up to Cambridge (St. John’s Coll., 
This interest in botany was further increased as time went on 
by intimacy or frequent correspondence with Sir William Hooker, 
H. C. Watson, H. Trimen, and others, and by some acquaintance 
in the field, during a stay at Montpellier, with M. Planchon and 
other French botanists. His first botanical publication was the 
Flora of Dorset (1874), in which he recorded several species added 
to the county by himself. Of these, Helleborus fetidus, Raphanws 
maritimus, Geranium pyrenaicum, Galium sylvestre, Valerianella erio- 
carpa, Erythrea pulchella, Bartsia viscosa, Polygonum mite, Cerato- 
phylum demersum, Malaxis paludosa, Allium oleraceum, Potamogeton 
acutifolius, Scirpus nanus, S. Caricis, Eriophorum latifolium, Carex 
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pyron pungens, Lastrea Thelypteris, and L. cristata will sufficiently 
testify to his splendid powers of observation and industry. < 
