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remaining years of Mr. Rose’s life, his delight was to assist young 
people in their classical or botanical studies, and he was always 
attended by some one or other eager to profit by hi§ conversation. 
He had long formed the plan of a popular work on the uses of 
plants, and though unable to execute his intention altogether him- 
self, he suggested the scheme to Mr. Charles Bryant, brother to the 
gentleman above-mentioned, an excellent and industrious practical 
botanist. This was the origin of the “Flora Dictetica” published 
in 1783. It was dedicated to Mr. Crowe, who had for some years, 
as well as several other gentlemen of Norwich, embraced with 
ardour the study of British Botany. The Rev. Mr. Bryant was 
by this time settled at his living of Heydon, from thence he after- 
wards removed to Colby in Norfolk, where he died at an advanced 
age in 1799, having never experienced any diminution of his 
fondness for botanical pursuits. Mr. Hudson and Mr. Lightfoot 
were, as long as they lived, his constant correspondents. Mr. 
Charles Bryant died before his brother. 
Mr. Pitchford, therefore, was the only survivor of the original 
Linmean School of Norwich. He had been a frequent correspon- 
dent of the authors of the “Flora Anglica” and “Flora Scotica.” 
But, though an admirer of Linnaeus, he was always peculiarly 
partial to Ray, and though ever so well acquainted with a plant by 
its Lin mean name, he would never rest while any obscurity enveloped 
it in the works of Ray. 
The Curices and Menthce more particularly engaged Mr. Pitch- 
ford’s attention ; and it must be confessed the study of them 
on his plan, of scrutinising synonyms without access to any old 
English herbarium, was not soon to be exhausted. No wonder, 
therefore, that his conversation and epistolary correspondence on 
these subjects found no end. Nothing, however, could be more 
candid and amiable than his discussions. In the last interview I 
had with him he was particularly strenuous with me to separate the 
Mentha hirsnta, with capitate flowers, from the verticillate M. 
saliva. I think it but just to record the opinion of so indefatig- 
able a practical observer, though my own remains unshaken. As 
some years have now elapsed since the Linmean Society published 
my paper on Mints, I take this opportunity of observing, that 
subsequent experience has strongly confirmed the solidity of the 
characters taken from the pubescence of the calyx and flower-stalk, 
