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FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



Manning 



HAM. 



KanI'. 



Black- 

 stone. 



Oxford. There is a tablet to his memory in the church near the 

 south entrance with the following inscription : — 



H. S. E. 



Johannes Jacobus Dillenins M.D. e civitate Darmstadt 



Oriundus, natu igitnr G-ermanus, studio et amore Anglus. 



Eruditione demum orbis literarii civis. Professor 



Botanices Sherardinus ab ipso Sberardo nominatus 



Et in arte sua longe omnium princeps. Quanto et quani 



felici labore Naturam penitus investigaverit, quam 



artifici etiam manu admiranda ejus depingere 



potuerit, q»am colores leviter variare, quam facili 



ductu aera incidere Testantur opera ejus immortalia. 



Nemo interea ant melius %T:sit aut flebilior occidit, 



_. ^^^ . L -T J f Domini mdccxlvii 



Die scihcet Aprilis secundo, annoj^^^^^.^ ^^^^^^ 



The Eeverend Thomas Manningham. D.D., of Slinfold. Sussex, and 

 Prebendary of Windsor, was a correspondent of Sherard and Dillenius. 

 Sherard called him 'a really curious and diligent botanist,' and 

 Dillenius complinients him in his preface to the Sijnopsis. He was 

 buried at Slinfold in 1750. His addition to the tlora of Berkshire 

 was the Polypody from the walls of Windsor Castle. 



Isaac Rand was, like Doody, an apothecary, and for many years 

 a A'ery zealous cultivator of botanical science. In 1724 he was ap- 

 pointed Keeper of the Chelsea Gardens, and in 1730 published the 

 Index Plantarum officinalium Horti Chelseiani, an octavo volume containing 

 518 plants connected with Materia Medica. Nine years later he issued 

 his Horti medici Chelseiani Index compendiarins. He was a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society. Linnaeus named the Rubiaceous genus Randia after 

 him, having made his acquaintance when he visited the Chelsea 

 Gardens. Rand died in 1743. His only addition to the flora of 

 Berkshire was the form of Malva sylvestris from Windsor, which was 

 noticed above. 



John Blackstone was an apothecary of Fleet Street in London, who 

 published in 1 737 a work entitled Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield sponte 

 nascentium, and in 1746 another which he named Specimen Botanicum 

 quo Plantarum phvrium variorum Angliae indigenarum loci natales iUastrantur, 

 a duodecimo volume of 106 pages. He visited Oxfordshire about the 

 vear 1736, and made many interesting discoveries in that county, as 

 his MS. in vol. 317 of the Sloane Collection shows. His herbarium is 

 now in the British Natural Historj' Museum. There are two letters 

 of his in the Richardson Correspondence, one giving an account of the 

 first discovery as a British plant of Dentaria bulbifera. In the Hope 

 Collection there is a print with the figures of three botanists, one of 

 whom is William Curtis, author of the Floin Londiyiensis, and another 

 John Blackstone, of whom it is said to be a good likeness ; it is 

 the only known portrait of him extant. He died in 1753. Hudson, 



