Robert Forby, Fincham, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith

Sending a species of 'Hyoscyamus' for Smith to examine. Makes observations of his own, believing it may be variety of 'Hyoscyamus niger' found by [John] Martyn [(1699-1768) botanist] in 1729 and not noticed since by any English writer. Comments on it being found outside Paris by Tournefort, abortive attempts to grow it in gardens, and location the specimen was collected from

The vocabulary of East Anglia; an attempt to record the vulgar tongue of the twin sister counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it existed in the last twenty years of the eighteenth century, and still exists; with proof of its antiquity from etymology and authority ...

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