102 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
worth, a first-rate botanist for his time, as I know from having had 
some of his specimens which had escaped destruction. The other 
two localities I have never been able to verify. None of these 
localities are suitable for I. fetidissima, being either wet peat or 
fen silt. fi 
cultivation. 
With us in Lincolnshire I. fetidissima, which is a most doubtful 
native, was in late years found at least in three places, but only 
where the influence of sandy limestone or chalk is found. The 
with a number of first-rate botanists through Dr. R. Latham, the 
lexicographer 
In seeking for exact information everything fails us. There 
was no specimen in the ruin of the Dodsworth collection I received 
years ago; and Latham’s notes and specimens all seem ost. Not 
received a co 
if he remembered rightly, even into Lincolnshire, recording ernt- 
aria glabra for Wilsford. Of this Dr. Latham 
i i now in the Herbarium at Cambridge. 
I have given the Dodsworth note-book, which is an interleaved 
copy of Hooker's Smith’s Compendium, 1886, along with the type- 
specimens of J. spuria in flower and seed, and also a tube of seeds, 
to the British Museum Herbarium. 
