JOHN CLAVELL MANSEL-PLEYDELL 261 
Seobts in the. county, lost since Pulteney’s time, he be once 
mounted and rode all the way to Corfe Castle, to get Canon Bankes 
to guide him to the spot. At the age of eighty he travelled from 
atcombe to Wareham to be shown the newly found Leersia 
oryzoides and the newly restored iahen gibba (which Bell Salter 
had reported without locality). Stimulated by the successful re- 
Searches of newcomers into the district, wae his friends the 
vs. W. Moyle Rogers and R. P. Murray, and the addition by 
them of many critical species, Mr. Mansel- ‘Pleydell printed in 1895 
& second edition of the Flora of Dorset, his own contributions to 
Which included Lavatera sylvestris, Leucojum vernum, Potamogeton 
Pinus, P. decipiens, Sparganium neglectum, and Carex curta. 
