170 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
his beautiful country, and from his beloved relations, he now lives 
in the foggy and expensive London, where he participates in the 
afflictions of so — y of his worthy and exiled countrymen! 
Lagasca and I met almost daily after this interview, and made 
some inrETe excursions together. 
In 1831 the state of La Gasca’s health compelled him to leave 
London for Jersey, so pat he remained until 1834; here he con- 
tinued to add to the herbarium which he had formed in England 
to replace the one bec had ee destroyed in Spain during the 
of 182 is return to England he compiled 
a list of the plants te had noticed in Jersey, which was printed in 
the Report of the Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society 
for 1839. This, says Mr. Leter-Gasland (Fi. Jersey, sep “ ie have 
taken the trouble to exhum i It is dat London, 
October 4, 1834,’ and was sent by Dr. Li indley (who norte to have 
own better) to Colonel Le Couteur, the President of the Jersey 
an ors.’ 
earn from the draft of a letter by Robert Brown to 
sca, dated Aug. 2, 1834, and preserved in Brown’s corre- 
Ppchdenis: that sca had Ae ssc to present his herbarium 
to the British Museum—a proposal which Brown encouraged ; 
to a MS. by Trimen in his copy of the Flora of Middlesex, on 
= authority of John Bull, it was “ PY ech at Madrid and partly 
a, in a shocking conditi 
be carried back beyond 1724, Ahr de to it by Mr. Druce (Dillen. 
: Us 
(the “M. P.” of Ray’s Synopsis), Cent. i. 13, no. 90 (1695 Aes 
the locality quoted by Si ae : Petiver :— sf “This I ee He 
Autumn on the Ditch-banks in the Meadows beyond the Lord 
Peterborough’s House or by Westminster.” On the drawing for 
p quoted Notes on E. B. Dra ; 
p. 161), J. De Carle Bowatby teat h “ P. Hydropiper Patleey 
without granules upon the calyx, thought a ‘be a distinct species 
by Prof. La Gasca of Madrid, who gathered it in a ditch on the 
Road side at Chelsea, Octr. 1826,” * e drawing seems to have 
been made from La Gasca's 8 specimens, with corrections and root 
added from specimens sent by Babin ington 
scion cht tebe 
- on note oomtintiee “Considered b by Mr. 8: Sea Yaka P. minus. ve minus 
of tgs on eae Sweet’s P. repens.” This last name, which is not taken pe be 
elsewhere, will be found in Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, ed. 2, 4 
(1880), wishes description, localized ‘‘ Fulham.” 
