From:
Hugh David Griffith
To:
Dr Lind
Date:
1800
Source of text:
L&P/11/126, Royal Society
Summary:
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Contributor:
Royal Society
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Encloses drawings; has no female florets on his 'Eriocaulon sexangulare' , requests Smith's assistance. Sir Joseph Banks and [James] Dickson think the 'Ribes petraeum' in "English botany" is only a variety of 'R. rubrum'; argues against this, small ink sketch. Smith should expect Dickson's "Fasciculus [plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae]" soon as he is working on the plates. Encloses a new 'Lichen'. Asks after the 'Ulva' he previously sent
[Short note only, written on scrap of paper]
Requests Sowerby to draw 'Alsine media' to figure with 'Cerastium aquaticum'. Wishes Sowerby to acquire wild specimens of 'Lychnis viscaria' from [John] Mackay [(1772-1802), employed at Dickson nursery, Edinburgh] of Edinburgh, for which he is postponing 'Lychnis flos cuculi'.
Postpones dinner with Smith and [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert.
[Notes on recto of folio in Smith's hand:] transcript of description of 'Eriogonum' from Michaux "Flora Boreali-Americana" vol 1 246, and list of plants headed "Hort Gramina Austriaca".