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and I find botanists in general can now easily enough make out any 
Mint that comes in their way. On this point, indeed, my late 
friend was sufficiently disposed to be partial to me, as he always 
was in every instance in which he could give me credit or do me 
any service. A few days after the above conversation — 
‘ ‘ he gave 
His blessed part to Heaven and slept in peace. 
So may he rest ! His faults lie gently on him ! ” 
I wish the foregoing particulars may afford the Society any 
entertainment, and am always, dear sir, your faithful friend, and 
very obedient servant, J. E. SMITH. 
Additional remarks by Sir James E. Smith to a letter from Mr. 
John Lindsay, Surgeon, Jamaica, on raising some Lyco- 
podium from its farina, and addressed to Sir Joseph 
Banks. 
Sir J. E. Smith says— “The raising of any species of Lyco- 
podium from its farina has not, to my knowledge, been described 
as practicable, Mr. Lindsay, therefore, has all the merit of an original 
observer. It is not to detract from bis due praise, but to do 
justice to unostentatious ingenuity, that I now mention Joseph Fox, 
a journeyman weaver of Norwich, as having made similar experi- 
ments upon Lycopodium selago with the like success. He showed 
me in the year 1779, young plants of this species raised from seed in 
his own garden. This humble observer, whose name has not yet 
appeared in any book, is the original discoverer of many rare plants 
in the county of Norfolk, and it is with pleasure I commemorate 
his former assistance to myself .” — See Linncean Society’s Trans- 
actions, Vol. II, page 315. Read 2nd April, 1793. 
