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literature, as well as in science the poet Crabbe. George Crabbe was- 

 born at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, 24th December, 1754. He was son to an 

 officer in the Customs, who at first thought of training him for a like 

 employment ; but eventually apprenticed him to an apothecary, to pre- 

 pare him for the medical profession. Having conceived a taste for 

 poetical composition, and finding himself in considerable straits, he 

 applied about 1780 to the celebrated Edmund Burke. Acting on his 

 advice, he qualified himself for Holy Orders, and in 1781 he was ordained 

 to the curacy of Aldeburgh, and in 1783 obtained promotion in Dorset- 

 shire. For a time he held the curacy of Great Yarmouth ; and he lived at 

 Great Glemham andEendham, where he had an opportunity of studying- 

 the Botany of the neighbourhood of Framlingham. He afterwards held 

 the livings of Merston and Croxton Kerryel in Leicestershire, where he 

 made his botanical notes, which have proved so useful to the Editors 

 of the recently-published Flora of that County. He lived to a good 

 old age, and died at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 8th February, 1832. 



His Framlingham list includes 226 flowering plants and a few 

 Cryptogams. Its importance chiefly consists in its being the first con- 

 siderable contribution to the Botany of East Suffolk, and as adding 

 nearly 40 new species to the Flora of the County. Mr. Crabbe also con- 

 tributed largely to the Suffolk list in the Botanist's Guide. Few of 

 these were additions to his list of 1798. Others of them, though new 

 to the County, do not rest solely on his authority, but are confirmed by 

 other names, and can only be credited to him in conjunction with other 

 persons. 



His plants, on the whole, are not such rare forms as those of the 

 preceding list. The following are selected from them, Anemone nemo- 

 rosa ; Ranunculus Lingua ; Silene quinquevulnera ; Cerastium tetrandum ; 

 Hyper icum hirsutum ; Falcatula ornithopodiodes ; Primus Padus ; Bup- 

 leui'iou tenuissimum; Pulicaria vulgaris ; Carduus eriophorus ; Stratiotes 

 aloides ; Crocus vernus ; Actinocarpus Damasonium ; Datura Stramonium ; 

 Typha angustifolia ; Scirpus silvaticus ; Carex canescens and extensa ; 

 Melica uniflora ; Serrafalcus secalinus ; Hordeum maritimum ; Lolium 

 temulentum. 



In 1800-3, Sir J. E. Smith, M.D.,F.K.S., published his Flora Bri- 

 tannica, 3 vols. 8vo., London. The English Flora, 4 vols. 8vo., was not 



