Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Castle Bourke, Tuam, Mayo, [Ireland], to James Edward Smith

• Main Author: Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Hudson; Westport; Empetrum nigrum
• Online Access: http://linnean-online.org/61995/; http://linnean-online.org/61995/1/JES-COR-6-20_001.tif; http://linnean-online.org/61995/2/JES-COR-6-20_002.tif; http://linnean-online.org/61995/3/JES-COR-6-20_003.tif; http://linnean-online.org/61995/4/JES-COR-6-20_004.tif

Plants found in the last month in Westport, County Mayo, [Ireland]: 'Andromeda daboecia', 'Empetrum nigrum', and 'Saxifraga umbrosa', remarking of the latter "the London Pride not in Hudson" ["Flora Anglica"]. Hopes to send an account of Mayo plants. Met Patrick Browne [(c 1720-1790) Irish botanist], "quite a cripple with old age" who showed him a copy of his "Flora Hibernica", believes it not much more than a catalogue [this remained unpublished until 1995]. Browne discussed Jamaican plants [Browne's "The civil and natural history of Jamaica"] and his correspondence with Linnaeus. At Lord Altamont's saw a "true Irish wolf dog", the seven Altamont owns are the only ones left in Ireland. The sheets of a botanical work left with Smith are from [Walter] Wade's intended "Flora Dubliniensi". Parliament have given £300 for Wade's campaign to establish Dublin botanic garden. Wade would like to correspond with Linnean Society and establish an Irish counterpart, requests copy of rules. Hopes [John] Fairbairn received West Indies seeds he sent. Will return to County Mayo for a few more months. Found 'Andromeda polifolia' growing in a bog near Althone.