A FORGOTTEN NATURALIST. : 55 
length.’”’ On March 29, 1812, he pga ‘¢ travelled to Hollow Dean 
Field, Sutton, and got four or five roots of the lizard orchis, now 
igh 
botany ; his garden having above a thousand plants me it.” In 
1822 Prof. Tone w visited him more than once; Pocock describes 
him as ‘‘a pleasant young man and worthy his prikoseo yn 3 
they the and effected an exchange of rare plan On the 2n 
April, 1828, he ‘‘ went to Wilmington, and got — a six roots of 
the oe orchis, all of which must have grown in the two last 
years, as when I was there in 1821, in March, only one root was 
left.” These he planted out a week afterwards in hedge- banks in 
remain as a breeder ; segs roots are very scarce, and I want to 
At the end of Mr. Arnold’s atte is a list of “rare plants 
found by "R. Pocock in the vicinity of Pome! in which are 
some errors—e.g. Hchinophora spinosa. Of greater interest 1s his 
herbarium, which, at the instance of the Editor, Mr. Arnold has 
very kindly pr roctne for the Botanical Department of the British 
Museum, where it will be always, PE 1 for reference. In 8 
present Fa it consists of two folio volumes, which w 
Seti and localised. He Pata started a collection in five 
affixed, w. 
Slogan of British plants already in the Museum ich has 
recently been rendered still more valuable by the ancecaliiae: io 
ugh Davies’s herbarium. To Pocock’s biographer also, we 
indebted for the use of the acme of Pocock, given above, ‘ehiab 
forms the frontispiece to his volum 
SHORT NOTES. 
Aprum eGravrotens Linn., In Huntineponspire.—In r 
ms as a native of Co. 31, 72 Watson says {2 Topographical aia 
p. 189)—* All inland localities this much-cultivated 
littoral plant must be regarded with suspicion.” ioe untingdon- 
e, though it has no present coast-line, is still subject to the 
aoe of the tide up the Ouse as high as Bluntisham Stanch, and 
the claylands of ee oe Warboys, Sawtry, and Holme form a 
considerable part of the western and southern shores of the ancient 
sea, which formerly covered the great level of the Fens. Naturally, 
3 traces of the old maritime flora may be expected, and actually 
