MR. T. SOUTHWELL OX THE RAISING OF LYCOPODIUM. 
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does its writer infinite credit — I therefore append the original 
communication, which appears in the ‘Transactions’ of the Linnean 
Society, vol. ii. 1794, pp. 313 — 315, as an appendix to a letter 
from a Mr. John Lindsay to Sir Joseph Banks, dated June 30th, 
1793, recording, the successful raising of Lycopodium cernuum 
and Bryum cesspit it hi am, “or a species very like it,” from “some 
of the fine dust or farina ” from their fructification, which he 
had “repeatedly sown from them both, and in a proper situation 
found they grew very readily.” He, encouraged by this, sowed 
“ that curious part of the fructification of Marchantia polymorpha ” 
with equal success [p. 314]. The following are the 
“Additional Remarks by James Edward Smith, M.D., F.L.S.” 
“ The foregoing observations of Mr. Lindsay are highly worth}* of 
attention, as confirming the Hedwigian theory of fructification of 
mosses ; and the result of his experiment on the Bryum was the 
same with those made on the same genus by Hedwig. 
The raising of any species of Lycopodium from its farina has 
not, to my knowledge, been described as practicable ; Mr. Lindsay 
[p. 315], therefore, has all the merit of an original observer. It is 
not to detract from his due praise, but to do justice to unostentatious 
ingenuity, that I now mention Joseph Fox, a journeyman weaver 
of Norwich, as having made similar experiments upon Lycopodium 
selayo 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.” 
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