A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
of the corn spurrey (S. sativa) was meant ; Carex montana, for which 
Abbot cites Leers, but Leers’ C. montana is really C. ericetorum. ‘The 
specimen in his herbarium is immature, but is probably C. pi/ulifera, 
and Abbot may well have been led astray by Linnzus, since the C. 
montana of Linneus’ Flora Suecica is correctly named, though the C. 
montana of the Species Plantarum is really C. pilulifera. Galium pusillum, 
by which early British botanists meant the plant now identified with 
G. sylvestre of Pollich, is not that species but only a form of G. 
Mollugo. His G. erectum is also a form of G. Mo/lugo, L. Abbot’s 
Cerastium pumilum is not the plant of Curtis but probably a form of 
C. semidecandrum, which is still plentiful in the localities he gives, and 
as we gather from his herbarium where C. semidecandrum is represented 
by another species. The Po/ypodium cristatum from Potton Marshes and 
Aspley Wood is not Lastrea cristata, but L. spinulosa, the Callitriche 
autumnalis is C. hamulata ; the former plant is absent from the midlands, 
and his C. verna is probably C. obtusangula. ‘The wild everlasting pea 
(Lathyrus latifolus), which he records from Haynes and Bromham, is, 
as his herbarium shows, only L. sy/vestris, which still occurs in the county, 
and sometimes with broader leaflets than those of the southern plant. 
His Galum spurium is really G. tricorne. His Veronica agrestis is V. 
polita, the grass Festuca fluitans is Glyceria pedicellata, Towns. ‘funcus 
sylvaticus is represented by Lwuzula vernalis, DC.; his Vicia lathyroides 
is really V. angustifolia, and Ervum tetraspermum is Vicia hirsuta, Gray ; 
his Hieracium murorum is probably H. sciaphilum; his Viola canina is V. 
Riviniana ; his Orchis latifolia is O. incarnata; his Carex distans is C. 
binervis ; his C. pamicea is represented by a specimen of C. remota ; and 
C. cespitosa is C. Goodenowi. 
Mr. J. McLaren, formerly gardener to Mr. Whitbread at Southill 
Park, where his herbarium is preserved, was a careful investigator. 
The Rev. W. Crouch, sometime curate of Lidlington, seems to 
have made an extensive collection of plants between the years 1841 
and 1846. His herbarium is in the possession of Mr. Charles Crouch 
of Ridgmont, himself for many years an industrious observer and re- 
corder. 
The Rev. W. W. Newbould, M.A., F.L.S., the well known botanist, 
occasionally visited the county, and has left some records which are quoted 
as the Newbould MS. He supplied a considerable number of records of 
Bedfordshire plants to Topographical Botany. 
Mr. W. Hillhouse, Professor of Botany at Mason College, Bir- 
mingham, was formerly at the Bedford Modern School, and when there 
compiled a list of the county plants in which several appeared for the 
first time as Bedfordshire species. 
Mr. James Saunders, A.L.S., of Luton, has been one of the most 
assiduous workers in recent times at the flowering plants of Bedford- 
shire, of which he published a very complete list of species found in the 
south of the county in the ournal of Botany for 1883. He has also 
worked at the Characee, of which he discovered the rare To/ypella 
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