162 GEORGE STACEY GIBSON. 
G. §. Gibson, October, 1848; p. 838, ‘Supplement to the List of 
Saffron Walden Plants,’ November, 1843, Sao Crepis setosa ; 
. 902, ‘Notice on a Carduus found near $ n Walden,’ January, 
18438 (C. dubius Willd.); p. 996, ‘Note ais Primula elatior,’ 
May, 1844, asserting its specific tstinccion: = 1123, ‘ Additional 
Plants found about Saffron Walden during the Summer of 1844, 
with Remarks on some of the Species,’ October, 1844, recording 
Galium Vaillantii. To vol. ii. (1845-47), p. 478, ‘ Botanical Notes 
for aoe: containing records from Yorkshire and the Lake District ; 
. 676, otice of some Localities of Plants in pono 1, &c., in 
the 8th Month, 1846’; p. 269, ‘ Cr - setosa and . a hortensis 
near Saffron Walden,’ ciel aah 847. To vol. i ili. Pes. 50), 
p- 216, ‘Notice of the Discovery of Filago Jussiai near Saffron 
Walden,’ July, 1848, now known as F’. spathulata; p. 308, 
‘ Botanical Notes for 1848,’ ee visits to Box Hill, Bot- 
tisham and Burwell Fens, and Newmarket, August, 1848; p. 540, 
: ot Newbould the discoverer of Melilotus arvensis,’ A ril, 1849 ; 
707, ‘ Botanical Notes for 1849,’ October, 1849. And to vol. iv. 
(i851_5 3), p. 64, ‘ Botanical Notes for 1851,’ February, 1851, 
sauna plants from Dunoon (printed Durroun), Argyleshire. 
e ‘ Botanical Gazette,’ vol. ii. (1850), is a letter from Mr. 
Gibson to Henfrey on Fumaria Vaillantii. In ‘English Botany 
Supplement,’ 2890, Arenaria uliginosa is stated to have been found 
in 1848 by a party of four, so the actual discoverer is believed to 
have been Mr. Gibson. Lastly, the finding of Potentilla norvegica, 
in Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, in 1868, was recorded in our own 
pages (Journ. Bot. vi. (1868) p. 802). 
1846 he communicated to Mr. Watson a list of West Cornish 
plants, which is incorporated into ‘Topographical Botany,’ where 
also records are acknowledged from Mr. Gibson for North Essex, 
Cambridge, East and West noes Surrey, West Sussex, North 
and South Devon, Monmouth, Ra dnor, C a Merioneth, 
Denbigh, North and West 3 Yorkshire, Durham, and Per 
As early as 1843, as we are told in the Preface, on « entertained 
the thought of compiling a Flora of a and wrote to several 
botanists on the subject, among ie o Edward Forster, from 
hints he “learnt that he had already collected considerable 
terials for such a work, and egun to arrange them. 
Finding the task in such goo od ha sid? says Mr. Gibson, ‘“‘I gladly 
made over to him all the information which had come within my 
reach, and during the few — years of his (Forster's) life we had 
frequent conversation and correspondence on the subject of his 
intended Flora. After his death, in 1849, no manuscript of this 
aking, m 
various sources were gradually accumulated, till the appearance of 
the Floras of Suffolk and Cambrid eshire gage me to put 
them eto: shape for publication.” Accordingly, in 1862, ‘ The 
Flora of Essex; or a List of the Flowering Plants ae oe found 
in the County of Essex ; with the Localities of the less common 
Species palsaresiziod by recent observation and reference to former 
