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Clenston on the day of his funeral—people of all classes, not a 
tithe of whom could be accommodated in the village church. Io 
some it was the sympathy of a common pursuit that appealed, and 
the energy, the delight, and the patience with which he followed 
out his researches. To far more it was the kindliness of the man, 
the goodness, the genial look of interest, whatever the special link 
on. is 
passport in themselves. H 
in anything he either said or did, abounding in benevolence, in- 
tensely human, loyal, loving, genial, humorous; he preserved to 
the end of his life the freshness, the vigour, the intensity, the 
simplicity, the sweetness of a child, combining it with the mature 
judgment, the wide knowledge, the ripe experience, the rapt insight 
into the life beyond the grave, of a departing saint who already saw 
Heaven opened.” 
_ Prof. Newton, F.R.S., who was frequently with him twenty to 
thirty-five years ago, while Mr. Mansel-Pleydell was collecting 
materials for his Birds of Dorset, writes from Cambridge, that, at 
the time when he was nearly overwhelmed with the liabilities he 
had incurred in connection with the unfortunate Somerset and 
Dorset Railway, ‘the calmness with which he bore up against 
what at one time seemed the prospect of utter ruin was very 
remarkable.” He adds: ‘“ The simplicity of his character and the 
almost boyish ardour of his pursuit of Nature made his society, to 
me at least, most attractive, and I feel that I. have in him lost a 
really good friend.’ i 
uch ardour characterized him to the end. He was attending 
an 
was on his way toa meeting of the Dor ‘ : 
on the 2nd May, when the fatal attack seized him to which he 
succumbed next day. E. F. Linton. 
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND MonmouTa Prants.—The undermentioned 
Species were observed by us in June, 1901, chiefly in the neighbour- 
hood of Stroud and Chepstow, a few being gathered in the company 
Rev in N rred. YV.-c. 33, 
L. s near Pitchcombe ; 
dant, with Crepis taraxacifolia 
Thuill., in a sown grass-field above Stonehouse.—Polygala oxyptere 
ichb. l it of a down, between 
K.8. Marshall. Harescombe.—Onobrychis viciefolia Scop. 
above Stroud and Pitchcombe; truly wild.—Ante 
wo patches, on a down above Pitchcombe.—Hieracium murorum 
L. var. pellucidum Laest. Plentiful about Stonehouse and Pi ch- 
combe.—Atropa Belladonna L. Downs between Randwick and 
