38 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1906. 
OBITUARY. 
F. W. Bursipce.-—It is with profound regret that we have to annouuce 
the death of Mr. F. W. Burbidge, M.A., V.M.H., the highly esteemed 
curator of the Trinity College Botanical Gardens, Dublin, who passed 
away in his sleep ‘on Sunday morning, December 24th, in his fifty-ninth 
year. For some time Mr. Burbidge has suffered from an affection of the 
heart, but the end came with ted sudd He was born at 
Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on Marchi 24th, 1847, and educated in the 
village school. After some experience in private gardens he went 
successively to Chiswick and Kew, leaving the latter in March, 1870, to 
join the staff of The Garden. In 1878 he went to Borneo and Sulu, 
as collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, and introduced numerous 
fine plants, including the popular Cypripedium Lawrenceanum and 
Phalenopsis Marie. The account of his travels is recorded in a very 
entertaining work, entitled The Gardens of the Sun. On his return in 
1879 he was appointed Curator of the Trinity College Botanical Gardens, 
and in 1889 he was made an honorary M.A. He will be greatly 
missed, but his name will be perpetuated in the graceful Burbidgea nitida, 
discovered by him, also Dendrobium Gap acti Aérides Burbidgei, 
Cypripedium Burbidgei, and Masdevallia B His wife, to whom 
he dedicated the beautiful Phalznopsis Masiies) died only a few months 
earlier. 
LIPARIS LGESELII IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. 
Tue discovery of the rare Liparis Leeselii in a new British locality is a 
very interesting circumstance, which has just been recorded by Mr. H. J- 
Riddelsdell in a note from which the following is an extract :—‘* The 
locality in which it occurs was quite dry at the time of discovery ; in winter 
it is no doubt wet, but never impassably wet. . . . There isa good 
quantity, many hundreds of plants in fact, healthy, and in excellent fruit, 
covering perhaps an acre of ground. The nature of the locality is to some 
extent indicated by the association with Liparis of such plants as Epipactis 
palustris, Orchis latifolia, and some O. incarnata, Scutelaria galericulata, 
Hydrocotyle, and Anagallis tenella. Botanists will require no apology for 
reserve in indication of the locality. There is no danger of the plant being 
disturbed or exterminated by natural means. The previously known 
distribution of Liparis in Great Britain included only five counties, Norfolk 
and Suffolk, Cambridge, Hunts, and Kent. It may have been found in 
The here is a kable extension of range.” 
agen of Bot., 1905, p. 274. 
