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found in the extracts from the Commentaries which follow these 

 remarks : Fothergill's garden at Upton was chief among these. 

 The continuation of this work was arrested by the author's death, 

 which took place at Chesterfield, the place of his birth, on April 

 30th, 1831. 



In Edwin Lees's Botany of Worcestershire (p. Ixxxix. 1867) 

 there is the following anecdote : — 



" In the ' Worcestershire Miscellany ' (Supplement, 1831) is 

 the following curious note in reference to the death of Dr. Stokes, 

 and a plant recorded by him as growing at Worcester, where he 

 once resided: — 'Till the last year (1830) the Scandix cercfolium 

 grew as recorded by Dr. Stokes, " in considerable plenty, in the 

 hedge on the south-west side of the Bristol road, just beyond the 

 turnpike." Those Vandals (as respects botanists), the Eoad 

 Surveyors, last year altered the course of the Bristol road, cut the 

 bank away where the Scandix grew, and not even a stray plant is 

 now to be met with there. Coincidences sometimes force them- 

 selves upon our notice ; had anyone told Dr. Stokes that the 

 removal of the plant he found in " May, 1775," would predicate his 

 own removal from this mortal life, he would surely have smiled. 

 Yet mark, this Scandix cerefolium grew unmolested in its habitat, 

 as first remarked by Dr. Stokes, from May, 1775, to May, 1830. 

 In the latter year the road was altered, and the plant eradicated, 

 so that in May, 1831, it could be no longer found in its old home, 

 and that same month '"' and year was Dr. Stokes gathered to his 

 fathers."' The year previous to his death he published the first 

 volume of a work entitled ' Botanical Commentaries,' the result 

 of fifty years' observations and study. He made extensive collec- 

 tions of plants, which were sold and dispersed after his death." 



If Stokes were living in Worcester in 1775 he may have been 

 apprenticed there. In any case it would be interesting to know 

 his relationship to the Jonathan Stokes, florist, who, as will be 

 seen from the following notes, carried on with his son a garden in 

 Worcester, or to the "J. and his daughter Penelope Stokes, 

 florists," who cultivated " Eiddgreen garden," the situation of 

 which is not specified. On p. 27 "Mr. Jos. Stokes" is mentioned 

 as having gathered Olea lancifolia"n,B he believes in India, but 

 probably at the cape of Good Hope": "Miss Stokes " gathered 

 Veronica montana at Knaresborough (p. 55) : Jonathan Kogers 

 Stokes, probably the son of Jonathan,! is mentioned (p. 27) as 

 having sent a specimen from a square in Leeds and (p. 113) as 

 having gathered Salvia nilotica in the Edinburgh garden. On 

 p. 239 it is mentioned that " Mr. Stokes " gathered Iris fceti- 

 dissima in a garden in Worcestershire and that " Mrs. Stokes " 

 gathered the same plant in Devonshire. 



(To be concluded.) 



* This is not quite accurate, since he died in April. 



f His second name is his mother's maiden name. He was probably born 

 in 1792 or 1793 {Letters of Anna Seward, iii. p. 229) ; and Stokes had apparently 

 at least three other children {ibid. p. 10(5), one of whom, Honora, Miss Seward's 

 goddaughter, died in 1792 {ibid. p. 1.5(i). 



