Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from:
Bungay, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Hopes Smith has recovered from his illness. Would prefer to be a Fellow rather than Associate of the Linnean Society; requests information and rules of the Society. Pleased by Smith's short paper on the irritability of plants. Postponing writing his 'Lycoperdon' paper until the winter; requests Smith's notes and transcript of Dillenius on 'Bovista'.
He and [John] Pitchford searched in vain for 'Ophrys loeselii' in St Faith's bogs, which have been improved and drained, but found new habitat for 'Carex limosa'; [Robert] Stone [(c 1751-1829), botanist] found 'Carex strigosa', a "capital addition" to the Norfolk flora. Received four specimens of 'Algae': 'foeniculaceus' of Gmelin and [William] Hudson; 'Abies marina' of Gmelin but erroneously labelled; a non-descript 'Fucus'; and a non-descript 'Conferva'; observations on all. A recently published figure of [Louis] Gerard's 'Thesium alpinum' does not resemble the Suffolk plant, asks for comparison with Linnaean herbarium. Requests specimens of 'Equisetum sylvaticum', 'Mentha villosa', and 'M. sylvestris'. Asks if 'Fucus pyriferus' Linnaeus is Sir Joseph Banks' 'Fucus giganteus'.
Letter date:
30 Jul 1788
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.72
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 17 Sep 1788 |
| Related Material | Woodward, T J, 'An Essay towards an History of the British Stellated Lycoperdons: being an Account of such Species as have been found in the Neighbourhood of Bungay, in Suffolk', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1794 2(1), pp.32-62. |
