Obituary Notices, by James Hardy. 187 



Mr Eichardson's correspondence in connection with the Thirsk 

 Botanical Exchange Club, had commenced with Mr J. G. Baker, 

 F.L.S., in 1861, and there are a series of notes down to 1872. In 

 1864 and 1866, we find him contributing notes of localities of 

 rare species to Messrs Baker and Tate's "New Mora of North- 

 umberland and Durham," published by the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club. The following notes form a sort of Adversaria on 

 some of the entries in that useful and painstaking work. 



Among the plants forwarded in 1864, there were two species 

 of Thalictrum from Kyloe. "The smaller," Mr Baker writes, 

 "is evidently the inland rupestral form of T. minus called 

 calcareum by Jordan, and montanum by Wallroth ; the large one, 

 although there is no fruit on your example, I think we are quite 

 safe in referring to T.flexuosumy ISee " New Flora," &c., p. 114. 



In 1863, Mr E. finds "a form of Barlarea vulgaris with upper 

 leaves resembling those of B. stricta ; but in true stricta, the pods 

 are rigid and adpressed to the stem." 



In 1864, Alyssum calycinwm, an alien, was gathered by Mr E. 

 " on the Eailway side south of Warkworth Station ;" and in the 

 same year Polystichum angulare was gathered in Cauledge woods 

 near Alnwick. 



Sept. 10th, 1865, Mr Baker mentions : "There are fine speci- 

 mens of Hymenophjllum Wilsoni in Winch's Herbarium from 

 Bickerton, near Eothbury, gathered by Sir Walter Trevelyan, 

 who told me he had got it again lately in the same place." Mr 

 E. had obtained local specimens somewhere to send to his friends. 



On Aug. 9, and Dec. 20, 1865, Mr Baker informs him that he 

 had found Agrimonia odorata near the ruins of Staward Peel. 

 Although he calls Mr E's attention to it, he appears never to 

 have found it at Kyloe Crags, where it had been gathered by 

 Professor Oliver. Hieracium pallidum, which Mr E. had got on 

 the basalt at Kyloe and Spindlestone, had made itself quite at 

 home on the rockery at Thirsk, and satisfied Mr Baker with its 

 identity with the Teesdale plant. 



On specimens of Potentilla alpestris from Spindlestone, June 

 12th, 1867, Mr Baker observes, "I do not see any material 

 differences between them and the Teesdale and Craven alpestris. 

 Undoubtedly it and verna come very close to one another." 



In 1865, Mr Eichardson's attention is directed by the same 

 diligent investigaier to the Eubi ; the results were that of the 



