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 THE LATE L')RD DK TABLEY, 77 Funaria fancicularis Dicks. Hamstead ; Qaeslet; Aldridge. — F. calcarea Wahl. {F. Muhlenbecki B. G.). Dove Dale! R. G. Lane from Mill Dale to Ham. Bariramia pomiformis L. Frequent on banks, Hamstead ; near Stone, &c. Fhilonoth fontana L. Flash ; Cannock Chase ; Rushton ; Chartley, &c. — Var. ccsspitosa Wils. Footways, Newborough ; Cannock Chase ; Morridge Top ; Rushton Marsh ; Chartley. — P. calcarea B. & S. Sherbrook and Brindley Valleys, Cannock Chase. Breulelia arcuata Dicks. Dove Dale, Valentine. Mill Dale, abundant. Onhodontium gracile Wils. Very rare, rock by the Churnet, near Alton Towers, c. frt. Leptobryum pyriforme L. Whitmore, E. O. Alton, Tixall ; EUaston ; Penn Common ; Norbury Park. (To be continued.) THE LATE LORD DE TABLET. John Byrne Leicester Warren, third and last Baron De Tabley, was born at Tabley Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire, on April 26th, 1835. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, taking his M.A. degree in 1856. In 1860 he was called to the bar, and in 1871 took up his residence in London. He succeeded to the title in 1887. His many qualifications in the direction of literature and art are sympathetically recorded in the AthencBum for Nov. 30th, 1895, by Mr. Theodore Watts, and in the Contemporary Review for January, 1896, by Mr. Edmund Gosse, who describes him as '* a scholar of extreme elegance, a numismatist and a botanist of exact and minute accomplishment, the shyest of recluses, the most playful of companions, the most melancholy of solitaires, above all and most of all, yet in a curiously phantasmal way, a poet." These writers enjoyed Lord De Tabley's intimate friendship — a somewhat rare privilege, for he was by nature a recluse, and as a consequence was intensely sensitive, and easily pained by the real or fancied want of sympathy of those with whom he came in contact. The papers I have mentioned have done justice to his literary attainments ; but the only attempt to present him as a botanist is that of his friend Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, whose letter in the Spectator of December 7th supplements in other respects the notices of Messrs. Gosse and Watts. It is this aspect of Lord De Tabley's varied attainments which demands record in the pages of this Journal, in which the results of his work among British plants have for the most part been published. The period during which Warren occupied a prominent position among British critical botanists extended from 1869 — when he published in this Journal his "Account of Cheshire Rubi " — to 1877, when he contributed his *' Notes on Sussex Plants " : these two papers are excellent examples of his thorough painstaking