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‘counties of Carnarvon, Flint, and Anglesea. Watson (Top. Bot. 
ed. 1, pt. 2,533) says: * These three catalogues.came to hand too 
late in 187 3 for citation under the orders Ranunculacee—U mbellifera. 
species.” It will always remain inexplicable that Watson, usually 
prone to suspicion rather than to credulity, should have accepted 
regarding some of them—aroused, perhaps, after the list had been 
printed. In his ‘miscellaneous notes’ (/.c. 650) Watson writes 
(under Printla farinosa\: ** On page 821, the county of Carnarvon 
is given for this plant on faith of Mr. ‘Robinson's catalogue, and 
also of his after assurance, in reply to speoiad:s inquiry, that it was 
found in the Snowdon district, where it ‘looks as truly wild as it 
does in the Lake district.’’’ In 1878, when Robinson was visiting 
the Department of Botany, I cross-examined him —— — —_ 
and took down his account of it. He said that it ‘“‘w ing 0 
the banks of a pond near Hawarden; I think the vlad was culled 
neither Northop nor Hawarden is in Carnarvon, but in Flint. 
bout this time I visited him at Frodsham, and a 
unsuccessfully to obtain a sight of his herbarium. He carried 
usiness of a druggist in a small way, but no o notice of f hig 
death (which took place 4 Nov. 1884) appeared in the Pharmaceutical 
Journal, The fullest account of him is that in the Biographical Indea, 
p- 144; there is a brief notice in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xvi. 318, 
and an estim 
7 of Cheshire (p. lxxxvii) :—‘‘ Records eh oe ‘to 1868 are 
oted where definite and probable, and some later ones when 
substantiated through other sources. lies sen ent ones are de- 
clined.” —Ep. Journ 
W. Fraser Totmim (d. 1596): 
W. F. Tolmie, one of the last survivors of the earlier hotanica 
collectors on the North-West coast of America, "ied at Tatice 
ds re) F Sir W. 
1836, spe on my 
cal students,” nad adds, ‘ oT had the Beenie of Boe aaa 
‘hi to [a] Deine june in the Huds son Bay Company’s 
possessions on the h-West coast of America.”” He was at that 
time ‘‘ stationed at Fort M‘Loughhn, in Millbank Sound, N. lat. 52” 
(Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 159), but, according to Dr. Asa Gra ay (Amer. 
ourn. Sci. exxxii. 244), had previously (in 1832) acted as medical 
officer at Fort Vancouver. Dr. Tolmie and Dr. Meredith Gairdner 
(who died in or before 1840). sent seven collections additional to 
those of Richardson. and others, on which the ‘ Flora Boreali- 
Americana’ was founded; and in that work a genus, subsequently 
