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JOHN SCAMPTON (fl. 1696). 
By James Britten, F.LS. 
In this Journal for 1909 (pp. eed under the heading “A 
Seventeenth Century English Botanist gave some account of 
the Rev. Matthew Dodsworth (fl. 1660-90), itso plants are in 
the Sloane Herbarium (H. 8. 27) and from whom letters are 
included in the Sloane MSS. My work upon the Sloane Her- 
barium Catalogue has incidentally led to a considerable acquain- 
tance with others of about the same period whose knowledge of 
British plants was considerable, but of whom little beyond their 
names is known. Ihave thought that oe ett derived as 
Graminum, &c. (1716) p. 3, as bora 
russis & viridibus. Qr? Gracias Arund. penal molli nee 
minus CB 7. 4. Its Panicles some green, others brown and 
yellowish, are smaller and more loose than the Wood Rheed. The 
first discovery of this Grass is owing to Mr. John Scampton & 
Curious Botanist, who sent it me from Leicestershire.” 
Of this there are excellent specimens in Herb. Sloane 329, f. 36, 
to which this printed account is attached with a further ticket i = 
Petiver’s hand :—* Gr. arundinaceum locustis aureis nob. 
found very De all along y® side of a moat neer ja eae ; 
it grew 3 or 4 feet high but most of it lay in ye ground; it rise 
ym 
So tall and y° stalke so povse it could not stand dare (ann 
interested in the flora of his neighbourhood. Petiver 
letter to him (2332, f. 63 ask) 1 in which he acknowledges “ yours 
from Huntingdon,” is fad dated—it was probably written in 
1695: it includes lists of plants as to which Scampton n had 
consalted him, with interesting critical notes, and asks that 
vg r. Arundinaceum Raii Syn. : 
its several states”; it was probably in answer to this that the 
excellent examples now in Herb. Sloane were sent, with letter 
from which an extract has already been given. Petiver urges 
