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bear the name of longifolius, which is occupied by Gay's plant ; and 

 I propose to call it x Babingtonii = lucms x praslongus ; for there is 

 no genus which has been more carefully treated in the several 

 editions of the Manual than this. 



P. pmlantjus has escaped having many named varieties attached 

 to it ; its most remarkable form being latifolius " Alpers" in herb. 

 Buchenau, with leaves measuring 3f in. long by If in. wide ; and 

 a form from Sweden (Dr. Tiselius) with leaves 12 in. long by 

 £ in. wide. The original specimens of Wulfen (gathered in 1763) 

 are about half-way between these two extremes; the narrowest- 

 leaved specimens I have seen were only a bare f in. wide, 



I have cordially to thank Prof. Babington for allowing me the 

 use of the specimen at my leisure. 



An expressive name for P. pralongm occurs in Host's her- 

 barium ! i.e., "P. elongatum," but apparently this was never 

 published. 



ANNE PRATT. 

 We briefly recorded in this Journal (1893, 288) the death of the 

 lady who was known to several generations of children under the 

 above name, but were then unable to give much information about 

 '>! ; 



of her early life from her niece, Mrs. E. Wells, and a short notice 

 of her work seems desirable. 



Anne Pratt was born 5th Dec. 1806, at Stroud, Kent, and was 

 the second daughter of Robert Pratt, a wholesale grocer of that 

 town. A few years later Mr. Pratt removed to Chatham, and in 

 that town Anne lived till 1846. She received her education under 

 Mrs. Roffey, at East Gate House, Rochester, famous in fiction as 

 the scene of Mr. Pickwick's adventure in the girls' school, and also 

 as the " Nun's House " of Edwin Drood. 



Anne was exceedingly delicate as a child, and her infirmity 

 resulted in a stiff knee, which incapacitated her from all active 

 out-door pursuits. A friend of the family, Dr. Dods, noting her 

 keenness of intellect, offered to superintend her studies in Botany : 

 thus helped she soon became an ardent student, and, aided by her 

 elder sister who undertook the collecting, got together a considerable 

 herbarium. Her artistic skill was turned to account in delineating 

 many of her specimens, and the coloured sketches she made were 

 afterwards frequently employed in illustrating her works. 



Her first literary venture, The Full, the Harden and the Wood- 

 land, was undertaken unknown to any of her relatives, and 

 brought out anonymously in 1838 by Charles Knight. To this 

 succeeded a number of volumes, nearly all connected with British 

 plants, and all marked by more accuracy than is usual in books of 

 the kind. But in the strict sense of the word, Miss Pratt was not 

 a botanist: the introductory portion of her principal work is 



