Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik
Sent from:
Göttingen, Germany
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Thanks for "Flora Britannica" and fifth volume of "Linnean Transactions". Requests the "Compendium" and Smith's edition of Linnaeus' "Flora Lapponica", it is not available in Germany. Sending second volume of his edition of [Carl Peter] Thunberg's "Dissertations". Discusses his "Synopsis fungorum" and 'Bungea' or 'Batarrea' as generic name for 'Lycoperdon phalloides'. Requests plants from [Dawson] Turner and [Robert Bransby] Francis for a "cryptogamical manual" [probably "Synopsis plantarum seu enchiridium botanicum ..."]. Requests from [James] Sowerby: 'Spaerocarpus' of Micheli, 'Lichen scopulorum', 'Lichen omphalodes', 'Lichen canescens', 'Lichen muscorum', 'Lichen trapeiformis', 'Lichen inclusus', 'Lichen gelides', 'Bryssus nigra', 'Bryssus barbata', and rare mosses. Requests from Smith: 'Mentha', rare grasses, 'Veronica hybrida', and 'Sibthorpia europaea. Several of the named plants requested have pencilled ticks.
Letter date:
15 Jan 1801
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
8.72
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.
Smith, J E, and Hoffmann, G F, (1800). "Compendium florae Britannicae." Londinum: [printer:] Davis.
Linnaeus, C, and Smith, J E, (1792). "Flora Lapponica" London: B. White & Son.
Persoon, C H, (1801). "Synopsis methodica fungorum ..." Gottinga: Dieterich.
Persoon, C H, (1805-1807). "Synopsis plantarum seu enchiridium botanicum ..." Paris: Cramerum. |
| Additional | Smith replied 11 Mar [1801] |
