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CANON J. VAUGHAN. 
On July 10th, 1922, there passed away at his house in the 
Close at Winchester a former member of and contributor to the 
Watson Club — Canon John Vaughan, known and beloved by a 
wide circle as a faithful minister, a cultured writer, a scholarly 
antiquary, and an enthusiastic lover of natural history. With 
other aspects of his personality and influence our limited space 
forbids any attempt to deal, but a few lines may well be spared 
to recall the pleasure he afforded to others by his charming 
botanical articles, enriched by wide reading and apt quotation, in 
various periodicals, some of which were collected and published 
in book form, as “The Wild Flowers of Selborne” and “The 
Music of Wild Flowers.” Mr. Thompson’s distribution this year 
of the sea pea brings to mind one such in “Lighter Studies of a 
Country Rector.” The writer only made personal acquaintance 
with him on July 7th in the water meadows near St. Cross, 
whence was pointed out to him on the hills a former habitat of 
Herminium. We then walked across ‘ meads ’ to look at a plant 
in college. Next day but one, being ‘in residence,’ the Canon 
preached at the cathedral on kindness to the dumb creation, and 
then, while engaged in the mid-day celebration of Holy Com- 
munion, collapsed and was taken home, to die in the early 
morning of Monday. Wild flowers were his delight, and with 
wild flowers brought in response to his desire by friends from far 
and near he was accompanied to his resting place under the 
cathedral that he loved. 
J. E. L. 
Myosurus minimus L. Old Drove Road, West Sedgemoor, 
Curry Rivel, Somerset, v.c. 5, June, 1922. — H. Downes. 
Ranunculus pseudo-fluitans Baker & Foggitt var. minor, Pearsall. 
Spring at Cadwell Farm, Beds., v.c. 30, det. W. H. Pearsall, 
June 27, 1922. — J. E. Little. I should refer this to R. pseudo- 
fluitans. I do not know the var. minor, but have seen much 
smaller specimens. — J.G. 
R. acris L., var. Stcveni Andrz. Caleb’s Farm near Winter- 
bourne, W. Glos.. June 14, 1907. Legit C. Bucknall. During a 
long-continued study of the forms of R. acris growing in the 
Bristol district these examples were put aside by the late Mr. 
Bucknall as agreeing best with var. Steveni. They were all 
gathered in the same fields on the same day, but it is noted on 
the drying tickets that some lean a little towards tomophyllus and 
others towards Borceanus. — Jas. W. White. 
