98 THOMAS RICHARD ARCHER BRIGGS, 
His first published botanical notes, Pepenrad s in the Phytologist 
from 1860 to 1862; his paper in the 186 1 vol., ‘* Dates of Flowering 
Plants in the Vicin nity of Plymouth,” saa g good earnest of the 
patient and exact obasciak ation which wa hs so characteristic of 
all he wrote. Equally interesting is it to at that even thus early, 
—-some twenty years before the publication ot his Flora,—the 
determination to observe and chronicle all that his neighbourhood 
could produce in the way of wild flowers seems to have been already 
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we of his father’s to Malvern, Worcester, Hereford, and South 
Wales,—probably the most extended tour that he ever took. His 
sdluatey as a field botanist had already been rewarded by the 
discovery of several plants not previously recorded from 
including Tillea muscosa and the then little-known Epilobium 
lanceolatum. But in 1864 the addition to the British Flora through 
him of a most interesting speci sd by Bee eager Schousb. 
H. beticum Boiss.) was announced s himself in this 
ournal, where soon anther it t was fully aendiben by Prof. Babington 
and a figure of it given.* : 
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note :— Hypericum undulatum found in Occacm 0) appears the he following 
known it, but not by name, for ee = bogs near "that soa 
abies via him that it was H. perforatum, rg gee ———— 
