162 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 
ford ; in 1848, Melilo arvensis q at — and oe 
Picridis** at Com batho, pre five miles west of Cambridge, where 
* was then cur urate-in-ch ‘Be, and penne, in 1856, he sent the 
on ei was materially assisted by Mr. New- 
bould at a tata period in his ‘Flora of Essex,’ fearing that a 
notice of Melilotus arvensis (‘ Phytologist, iii. 481) might have 
been misunderstood, as attributing - discovery to him, wrote to 
disclaim the honour, heading his communication, ‘‘ Mr. New- 
bould the discoverer of Melilotus cana and crediting the first 
finding to “one of our most accurate yet diffident of botanists” 
—no inapt phrase for describing the man 4 to the day i his 
scientionsness, etait and paticane which were such ete 
featur in Mr. Newb ould :—“ I value very much what you have 8? 
Previous to this, however, and shortly after leaving Cambridge, 
where he took his awe = 1842, Mr. Newbould was curate of 
Bluntisham, in Huntingdonshire, having been ordained a deacot 
of the Established Shes ee 1844, and priest in 1845. He sub- 
ge 
‘Bot. Gazette,’ i. 57 (1849). : 
as 63, where th e plant is styled F. agraria. } «Fl. Cambridgeshire, hire,’ 3. 
s ‘Ann. Mag. Nat. Bist Ged Bek i Engl. Bot. coms 
“Phytologist, il 540. ** “Engl. Bot. Suppl.’ 2056. 
