.l(>Si:i'H ANDkKWIS AM) HIS II KIIIJA IM UM 2.')0 



'I'll*; Ilo'lariuin at <nui tiino htjlon^'cd to tlu* li(;v. Cliarlcs Siilloii 

 r 1 7'"»(; ISKi; \vli(j HC'iit Kpccimeiis from it to Siiiitli, in wlioso Jler- 

 b;ii-iiiiii 1ln;j — 6'. y., two HpeciineriK of J/^^/i//s« — may bo found, with 

 lal>L'l.s in AndrewH's hand : on thost; Smith lias notod : " (iiven mr; by 

 the liuv. C Suttfjn from an old hoi-ljarium colloctod in Essex." The 

 Ifei'bai'ium latijr became the property of the Jiev. .John Hemsted, 

 whose father— also .Jolm — was Vicar of Haverliill, Suffolk, and whose 

 grandfather (b. 1(5(50) was of Sudbury. lioi'n at Linton, (y'anibridf^c- 

 shire, June II, 174(5, the tliird .lolni Hemsted graduated \',.A. at 

 (Jaml>ridg(; 1810 and jirocecded M.A. in 1S14: he subs(;<juently 

 V)ecame ri;ctor of St. John's, i{<;dford, wliere he died in February 

 1824.. 



AJtliougb bi' did not piibHsli ;iii v1 biii'4', lliinisled was a consider- 

 able botanist. A coi-n-spondent of J. K. Smitli and James Sowei-by, 

 he contributed several |dants to K/if/lixk lioLdiiy, sonu; of which 

 form the subjects of thret; hitters to Sowerby, now in the l>(;[wrtment 

 of liotatiy. With one of these Hemsted sent three plants which he 

 thought had " some pretensions to scarcity — Gnajjhaliuvi dioicum, 

 Jlaruiuriu (jlahra, and Af/roaliH Hpicji-Vc.nli.''^ The first of these is 

 mentioned as from "Jlemjwted" on Sowerby's drawing for K, Jjot. 

 t. 747, though the ligure was not prejjared from his s|;ecimen : the 

 Ilerniaria was the specimen employed fort. 1171 : on the drawing 

 is a note by Smith to Sowerl)y : " is this found wild at Newmarket 'i 

 If you an; not ci-rtain, j>leas(; to write to Mr. H(.'msted as it is very 

 important " : the answer was in the allirmative, as in the text to the 

 jiiate Smith says " wild s|>ecimen near Newmarket" (see F. A.Garry, 

 Noim on l)rowin<jH for K. Jiolaiii/, ]>]>. lO^i, loli^. jn the same 

 letter Hemsted speaks of (J-rcpU hifnuin, and refers to the opinion of 

 Kelhan, with whom ho was on terms of intimacy, concei-ning it (see 

 (iarry, op. cU. 112). In his letter of Aug. 10, 179(5, Hemsted 

 criticizes the colouring of Sowerby's plates, which he says " has sadly 

 fallen olf : only give yourself the trouble of coniparing the Cam- 

 panula lalij'olia with the IVdckeliuni published in the early part of 

 your work, but I forbear adding any more as it is not my intention 

 to give blame but to convince": in a postscript he says that his 

 remarks apply " principally to the purples." The third letter 

 (Mar. 10, 1707) relates to mosses sent by Hemsted. 



In Turner and iJillwyn's BotaniiitiC Guide (1805) Hemsted 

 reeonls (\). .'>()4) Sanecio paludoHux L. from Lakenheath Fen, near 

 Wangford ; and Sulix rubra Hudson from Icklingham. He added 

 Linnean and English names to Andrews's Herbai'ium, arranged it 

 according to the Linnean sy.st<;m, and drew up a MS. index of genera 

 and one of s]jeci(;s for each fascicle; but there are few plants of his 

 collecting. A fascich; of Mints, now with the Herbarium, is labelled 

 throughout in II(;msted's hand ; it seems to consist mainly of one 

 of the sets which Sole distributed, and Sole's names are often 

 quoted. It would appear that Hemsted was specially interested in 

 Mentha ; in a letter to Sowerby dated Sept. 10, 1709 (in the IX'part- 

 rnent of Botany) lielhan says: "Mr. Hemsted came over to Cam- 

 bridge this morning and brought me specimens of two Mints which 

 he had not been able to ascertain." 



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