A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH BOTANIST 99 
leaves, more strongly toothed (teeth often cartilaginous-tipped), 
more petiolate in well-developed specimens, quite glabrous beneath ; 
the clothing of the scapes; the small oblong petals, just like those 
of nivalis (in stellaris they are linear-oblong, more acute, and 
strongly guiensd) and the Sige ae heads. 
A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH BOTANIST. 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
In the course of my gee cea of the Sloane Herbarium, of 
which the Trustees of the British Museum propose to publis 
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are very well preserved and carefully named, are localized in Dods- 
worth’s neat and Pee hand, and it may be of interest to publish 
these early localiti 
The title to H. s. 27 ce some doubt as to the collector of 
the plants it contains: it runs—* A book of dried plants, which 
belonged to Mr. Pett, ae sapien osed to be gathered by Mr. English 
eve 
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volume, was certainly made by Dodsworth; the labels in his 
handwriting extend up to f. 199: remaining plants are un- 
labelled and may have been added lat 
The little that has hitherto cipeared | in print about Dodsworth 
will be found in the Biographical Index of British Botanists, p. 50. 
He took the degree of B.A. at Cambridge in 1674 and at Oxford 
(where he proceeded to M.A. in 1678) in 1675. In 1690 he was 
rector of Sessay, near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, but the present Snate 
the Rey. G. R. Dupuis, writes that he can iat me no coo ap n 
yn. 
him “botanices apprimé gnarus” and (Hist. 1306) “amicis- 
simus vir reique herbarie pertissimus.” With Plukenet he 
seems to have been on intimate terms as well as with John 
Watts, Curator of the eae ae Garden at Chelsea (1680- 
93) (see letter in Sloane MS. 4062, f. 204, hereinafter printed). 
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