102 THOMAS RICHARD ARCHER BRIGGS. 
now retired from the army, and for a time lived with his family in 
Plymouth; until, a few years later, they all moved together to 
adh : : : 
occasional short visits to his friends; so that there were probably 
many years between 1878 and 1890 in which he did not spend a 
single night from home, except for his one visit of twelve or thirteen 
ays to my house. Hence his brother, writing to m Fursdon, 
ay 
mov Fursdon ngest ee i s from 
Plymouth, besides the one Sweet aes ve set Makbe and South 
W 
ndence 
Scilly Isles. This limnited: range of seman as a field bo 
while it enabled him to master more completely whatever there was 
e learnt about the plants of the south-west of En, 
inevitably had an unfavourable effect on his knowledge of the 
British Flora as a whole, and so makes only the more remarkable 
the work he did as Curator of the Botanical Exchange Club, and the 
position he justly held as an authority on British plants petiothi 
At length, in 1880, his Flora of Pl _— appeared. 
highly appreciative and yet eminently just review* of this work 
which appeared in me Journal at the time of its publication leaves 
little that is worth saying on the subject here. Never, proba 
familiarly known to most of u sufficient evidence of this ;—I 
mean, the extent to which this sie is still accounted the pattern 
volume for the best local Floras since published, and the circum- 
stance that it continues in itself so full of interest to the general 
student, that he may turn to it now and open it almost anywhere 
with the -erapeptinadd ’ ome on matter which will help or quicken 
him i in oat si 
= as sxc sete pr puiatina 5 for the 
veliest possible interest in their production. 
> i eye cait of N. entes the Rubi showed less affinity y with th those of 
* Journ. Bot, 1880, pp. 281—285. 
