880 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
in the Kennet Valley, Berks, where Prof. Pisco F.R.S., of 
Oxford, recently found it—G, Cuarincz Druc 
OropancHE RuBRA Sm. = QO. ausa Steph.—The Rev. A. Wood- 
dare Peacock sent me an Orobanche gathered by Miss E. F. Lewin 
897 in Cawthorpe Woods, near Louth, N. Lincolnshire. I 
soul not at once determine it, and at last sent it to Dr. Gunther 
Beck, the monographer of the genus. He has replied that it is 
O. alba Stephan var. communis Beck, Mon. 209. It seems that we 
shall have to give up Smith’s name, as the dates are as under :— 
OropancHe aLBa Stephan ex Willd. Sp. Se iii, 350 (1800). 
0. “th egeee DC. Fi. Fr. iii. ie (180 
O. rubra Sm. Eng. Bot. t 1786 (1 807). 
O. epithymum DC. var. purpurascens Briigg. in F]. des Unteren- 
gadins (Jahresb. der Naturf. Gesellsch. Graubiindens, xxxi, 
Beilage, p. 139 (1887-8) ). 
. Peacock writes that pe knows of no soil at Cawthorpe in 
which Thymus would be likely to grow, though he thinks there 
on this it might grow. This will be a work for next year to deter- 
f 4 
Mon. In addition to the gc in Top. Bot. ed. 2, p. 3 the 
species is recorded from:—62 York N.E., Webster sp., a vert fine 
form; I have not yet been able to dissect it, but if any of our species 
it is this, oo Kirkeudbr. J. McAndrew MS. 97 Westerness, Mac- 
vicar sp. 102 Ebudes, S. Grieve, Journ. Bot. 1882, 818. 110 O. 
Hebrides, “so sp.—Arruur Bennett. 
Trirotium resupinatum L, in Sussex (p. 850).—This plant was 
found in Sussex by Mr. I’. Hilton in 1889, at Kingston-by-Sea, and 
in 1894 at Henfield, and both gee are to be found in Journ. 
Bot. 1901, p. 408.—C. E, Samo 
Narnanie, Jonn Winon. —The date of this botanist’s birth 
seems hitherto sarcoincies but I have recently lighted upon a memo- 
um in his handwriting, in his correspondence, which gives 
some > interesting particulars. From it we learn that he was born 
at Hampton, Middlesex, on 26th December, 1768; went to New- 
castle in Tanilaty, 1786 ; travelled in nealing A south of Europe 
and France in 1790-91; was married on 4t y, 1795, at 
Chester-le-Street Chutal, Durham ; and that his wife died on 28th 
a 1826. His British herbarium was the foundation of 
le of Wineh’s collections went ade all his British 
d his Pee renee, remained at Burlington House. 
