848 SHORT NOTES. 



Pennell, James H. (fl. 1840). 'Drawing-Room Botany' (1840). 



Jacks. 39. 



Ferguson, William (1820-1887) : b. July, 1820 ; d. Colombo, 

 Ceylon, 31st July, 1887. Surveyor. In Ceylon from 1839. 

 ' Timber-trees of Ceylon,' 1863. ' Notes on Ceylon Ferns,' 1880. 

 ' Ceylon Grasses,' Journ. Ceylon Branch, R. A. S., 1880. Pritz. 

 106 ; Jacks. 396; Journ. Bot. 1887, 320; Ann. Bot. 1888, 403, 

 with bibliog. Fergmonia Hook. fil. 



Field, Barron (1786-1846) : b. London, 23rd Oct. 1786 ; d. Tor- 

 quay, 11th April, 1846. F.L.S., 1825. Judge Supreme Court 

 N. S. Wales, 1816-1824. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 298 ; Jacks. 400; 

 Fieldia Gaud. = Vanda. Fieldia A. Cunn. 



Fielding, Henry Barron (d. 1851) : d. 21st Nov. 1851. Of 

 Bolton Lodge, Lancashire. F.L.S.,1838. ' Sertum plantarum ' 

 [with G. Gardner] , 1844. Herbarium of 70,000 specimens 

 bequeathed to Univ. of Oxford. Pritz. 107 ; Jacks. 117 ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 188; Phytol. iv. 655; Cott. Gard. vii. 188; 

 Lasegue, 330. 



Fifield (fl. 1702). Surgeon. Sent plants 'from Campeachy to 

 Petiver. Mus. Petiv. 94. 



Finlayson, George (fl. 1821). Of Thurso. Surgeon and natu- 

 ralist to Siam Expedition, 1821. Friend of Wallich. Wall. 

 PI. Asiat. ii. 49; Lasegue, 132, 141. Plants at Kew. Fin- 



laysonia Wall. 



Firminger, Thomas A. E. (1812 9-1884) : d. Edmonton, Middle- 

 sex, 18th Jan. 1884. Clerk. M.A. * Manual of Gardening for 

 Bengal,' 1863 ; ed. 2, 1869 ; ed. 3, 1874 ; Gard. Chron. xxi. 



(1884)124. 



Fishwiek, John (fl. 1696). Sent plants from Andalusia and the 

 Mediterranean to Plukenet. Almagest. 18, 54, 85, 221. 



Fitt, George (fl. 1844-1847). Of Great Yarmouth. Contributed 

 to Phyt. i. and ii. ; Journ. Bot. 1847, 287 ; R. S. C. ii. 628. 



Fitton, Elizabeth (fl. 1817) : b. Dublin. Sister of Dr. W. H. 



Fitton. 'Conversations on Botany,' 1817. Pritz. ed. 1, 86; 

 Jacks. 43. 



Mary 



Conversations 



on Botany' (1817), \with foregoing— her sister). 'The Four 

 Seasons ' (1865). Pritz. ed. 1, 86 ; Jacks. 43, 45 ; Proc. Geol. 

 Soc. 1862, xxxiv. 



(To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Arum italicum (Mill.). —On May 15th last, I traced this Arum 

 along the base of the chalk-hills known as the Sugar Loaf and 

 Caesar s Camp, near Folkestone, for a considerable distance ; but it 

 grew much more sparingly than the common A. maculatum (L.), 

 which are very abundant. Occasionally some specimens were found 

 that now appear hybrids, partaking of certain of the individual 

 characters of both species. Is it not within the bounds of possibility 



