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It is difficult for the writer who handles the seething cauldron 

 of Day-by-day Questions, to see the potentialities in those least- 

 explored byways of Science—; fallentis semita vitce — preferred by 

 the shyer followers of Flora ; the retiring unostentatious nature 

 of Dr. Heaton's Botanical work does not appear at any rate to 

 have appealed to the memoirist very forcibly. 



I will now enumerate direct from the Doctor's dated and 

 labelled sheets the more important of these Extinctions, fully 

 believing- in the reliability of the specimens as local wit- 

 nesses of a real, if antiquarian, interest. ' Ichabod ' is the 

 epitaph that fitly serves for them all. None of the localities 

 have been in print before, while one (if not more) of the items 

 is actually an Addition to my published Flora, come to life with 

 a posthumous immortality that to an enthusiast is pathetic and 

 pityful. 



The numerals and the species-names agree with those of the 

 Ninth Edn. of the London Catalogue. 



25. Ranunculus sceleratus. Blisterwort. Ditch bank by 

 'Salutation Well' (above Cross-roads, Stonegate, Meanwood), 

 1859. I recollect this growing there up to about 1863. A great 

 change in the direction of a gradual increase in dryness of the 

 soil all about ' Carr Manor,' though never a ' carr ' in my time, 

 has taken place hereabout. 



30. Ranunculus Lingua. Addle dam, 1846, J. D. H. This 

 loc. appeared in Miall's W. R. Flora of 1862, on the authority 

 of a Mr. A. Shipley. 



46. Aquilegia vulgaris. Addle, streamside, 1846. This 

 was there up to '68 or '69, according to my own earliest notes ; 

 it had pale pink blossoms, and the soil being damp sandy peat, 

 with no calcareous strata higher up the beck, which ran from 

 Adel dam, I always held it an established stray from the Corn- 

 mill or cottage gardens a mile higher up. 



52. Epimedium alpinum. 1 Barrenwort. Plantation at 

 Meer's brook, near Sheffield, May 1865/ in Dr. Heaton's writing. 

 Two specimens of a Swiss indigene which has found a place in 

 British Floras for a hundred years, and which, being hardy and 

 able to grow in bare earth in the shade of trees, has established 

 itself where introduced (possibly with soil about the roots ot 

 trees) in several counties. This is the first evidence lor \ ork- 

 shire, however, and it would be interesting to learn if it still 

 grows near Tinsley, where the Deakins Dr. Heaton's mother's 

 maiden name was Deakin were farmers. At Meanwood it 

 has grown in certain gardens, like those ot the Elsworth s 



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