RICHARD VERCOE TELLAM 361 
and “sera for knowledge he retained to within a short time of 
his dea n the summer of 1907 it was my great Pon to 
nearly fifteen years cm On one of these rambles near Falmouth 
he showed me a Hieraciuwm which appeared to be new » him, and 
which- Messrs. Linton a oa Nara ed to H. serrati ifrons 
Almq. This was an addition to the flora of Biatherh ingiaaa 
In the popular acceptation of the term, Tellam was not a 
scientist ; rather was he a devout rene lover and an enthusiastic 
collector ; and I feel sure this is what he would have labelled him- 
self if asked to do so. Physiological fee was to him almost a 
sealed book. Geological, morphological, and to a great extent 
geographical, botany absorbed but little of his time. twig 
and “such like new-fangled notions,’ as he was wont to call 
them, called forth not one iota of his sympathy; but when it 
came to fine distinctions between species and varieties, to local 
assemblages of spre and the prime factors in directing them, 
you could not get away from the feeling that you were in the 
company of a master. et his views were uttered in simple 
everyday phrase, and with almost painful modesty, and to me, at 
any rate, it was apparent that here was one who went to nature 
occupation—that of a farmer—enabled him to cultivate. He 
had a a perhaps a eres knowledge of the alge, fungi, 
lichens, and m s of rnwall; his contributions to our lst 
of phane eee are more numerous than those of any hee 
student ; he became also a collector of local insects. About thirty 
years ago, owing to heart trouble, he gave up farming, and thence- 
forth natural history and his work oa a Wesleyan Methodist lay 
preacher divided his attention. s botanical collections have 
ee given to the Royal seuatation ¢ of Cornwall to be placed in the 
at Truro. 
Tellam was not a writer, otherwise literature would have been 
note-mak more regrettable fact. A stray list or two in 
the reports of West Country natural history Sage <5 records 
i y of Devon and Cornwall, in Ralf: lora of West 
Cornwall, and in W. & G. 8S. West’s papers on ee algee are 
practically all that stand to his credit. When, however, my 
page of that work. The phanerogams which he added to the list 
of Cornish plants are :—Ranunculus Drouetit, R. tripartitus, Calli- 
ee obtusangula, Hieracium serratifrons, Mentha alopecuroides, 
—_ m maculatum, Elodea canadensis, Potamogeton crispus, Gly- 
pie dices Hordeum nodosum, Carex curta, C. pallescens, Chara 
