Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
London
To:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent to location:
Bungay, Suffolk
Summary:
Just returned from Matlock, [Derbyshire], in much better health. Details of Linnean Society fellowship and constitution. Transcribes manuscript note on 'Lycoperdon epiphyllum' from Linnaeus' "Flora Suecica", and his own notes on 'L. pedunculatum'; advises Woodward write only on the English 'Lycoperdon'.
Goodenough received Woodward's 'Fucus' specimens but they have been unable to examine them. Corrects mistakes Woodward made about 'Fucus' in his last letter [30 July 1788, see RelatedMaterial below] and regrets being unable to help with specimens of 'Equisetum sylvaticum' and 'Mentha villosa' at present. Linnean Society has begun to make a library and herbarium of English plants and would be grateful for Woodward's specimens of 'Bromus arvensis', 'Carex limosa', 'C. strigosa', and 'Orobanche ramosa', and he would like 'C. strigosa'.
Saw 'Ophrys loeselii' in [William] Curtis' garden. At Matlock found plants not usually known there, including: 'Thlaspi alpestre', 'Lichen laetevirens', 'L. saccatus', 'L. immersus', and 'Hypnum intricatum' Schreber. Comments that [Richard] Relhan's "vile figure" of 'Thesium alpinum' seems same plant as Gerard's "beautiful & accurate one".
Letter date:
17 Sep 1788
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.75
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Woodward's letter of 28 April 1788, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/33. For Woodward's reply of 15 November 1788, see JES/COR/18/37.
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. |
