CXXVl FLOKA OF BERKSHIRE 



Doody's herbarium is in the British Museum, and his interleaved 

 copy of Eay's Synopsis, with numerous notes, is in the Library of the 

 Bi-itish Museum (969 f. 21}. Pulteney says that 'among the Crypto- 

 gamic plants he made the most discoveries of any man in that age, 

 and in the knowledge of them stood clearly unrivalled.' His manu- 

 script notes on the Mosses are in the Sloane Collection, and are 

 numbered 2315. Robert Brown named the genus Dooclia after him, as 

 Roxburgh's genus of the same name had been changed to Uraria. 

 Doody died in 1706. The plants recorded by him in Ray's Syno2)sis, 

 ed. ii. 345, 1696, from Bagshot Heath, and which are probably still 

 to be found thei'e, both in Berkshire and in Surrey, are Lycopodium 

 davaium, Eynchospora alba (already given for Berkshire by Johnson), 

 Drosera longifoUa, Osmunda regalis, Hypericum elodes, Erica Tetralix, the 

 hoary form of Ccdluna (see Clusius), and Scirpus caespitosus. 



More information about Samuel Doody will be found in Field and 

 Semple's Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea, London, 1873 ; in the 

 Flora of Middlesex, p. 376 ; and in the Dictionary of Nationcd Biography, 

 vol. XV. p. 236. 

 DuBoiSjC. Charles Du Bois, or Dubois, a London merchant, who was born in 

 1656, had a Botanic garden at Miteham in Surrey. He was Treasurer of 

 the East India Company, and made a large collection of plants, many 

 of which he procured from India. The British specimens were chiefly 

 supplied by Mr. Stonestreet. The Du Bois collection, now at the 

 Botanic Garden, Oxford, was formerly contained in bound volumes ; 

 unfortunately it has been rearranged, but is still kept separate from 

 the General Herbarium of the University. It contains the following 

 plants from Bei'kshire and Oxfordshire, none of which appear to have 

 been gathered by Du Bois himself : — Lycopodium inundatum from Bag- 

 shot, collected by Mr. Stonestreet ; Pohjstichum angulare by Mr. Bobart 

 from Newbury, as before mentioned ; a form of Convolvulus arvensis 

 found by Mr. Stonestreet near Henley ; a form of Polypodium vnlgare 

 from Windsor Castle, communicated by Dr. Manningham ; Bobart's 

 Scrophularia nodosa from Cumnor ; Vicia sylvatica from near Oxford ; 

 Malva sylvestris, a form sent by Mr. Rand from Windsor ; and Galium 

 erectum from near Oxford by Mr. Buddie. 



The Sherard herbarium contains a plant which appears to have 

 been removed from the Du Bois collection, and is labelled in 

 Mr, Stonestreet's handwriting '■ Potamogeiton millefoVnim seufoliis gramineis 

 ramosum, Rail Syn. 61. D. Thorp collegit in Thamesi prope Oxoniam.' 

 Sibthorp labelled the plant Potamogeton pectinatus ; it is however P. in- 

 terruptus. 



Du Bois died in 1740 and was buried at Miteham. For further 

 particulars concerning him see the Dictionary of National Biography, 

 vol. xvi. p. 77. Brown commemorated him in the genus Duboisia. 



