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MR. JAMES BRITTEN ON SOME 



ivas promised, "si quidem cooli nostri sint patientia." Unfortunately this 



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only two of thcni grew and that not to maturity " sive terra' nostra-, sive 

 cijoli culpa." A figure of each is given, '' penicillo filii laudati Benedicti 

 adunihratam," but the material is insufHcicnt for determination. 

 - In the same year (1G72) and prohably at the same time as the plants sent 

 to Bartholinus, which are represented in it, Hermann made the large and 

 important collection, nnmhering sixty-six folios ^vith an average of ^three 

 or four spccim*ens on each, which forms vol. Ixxv of the Sloane Herbarium*. 

 These were partly named by Solander, who found among them several 



species then new to science 



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hich he described in his MSS. 



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specimens, a few of whicli have at some time been removed, are for tlie 

 most part good, but so far as I am aware no one save Mr. Hiern and 

 the staff of the Department has ever consulted them. 



The figure of tlie first of the plants in Bartholinus's Vist^Baccliaris ivcefoUa 

 eferred to by Petiver who names it, after its bringer, '' Stoll's Cape 



and says it had "been a long standard in Chelsey Garden, 



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where it flowers and seeds yearly about ('hristmas. 

 "Mr. Cuninoham brought me the Hrsi Specimen of this nigh 20 Years since, 

 in Ids return from the Cape of Good Hope." This was James Cuninghamk 

 (t 1709?), whose collections formed the first important contribution to onr 

 kno\vled'>-e of the plants of China. Cnninghame, from whom numerous 

 letters containing much interesting matter will be found in the Sloane 



Correspondence, was at the Cape in 1G99, whence he sent a few poor 

 specimens to Sloane (H. S. 59. ff. 14-19) : others are scattered tlirough 

 Petiver's ' Hortus Siccus Capensis ' (H. S. 150), and occasionally have tickets 

 in his hand. Of more interest than these is a list of nine " Plantic Europete 

 ad Bouse Spei Promontorlum spontanec provenientes," noted by Cuninghame 



. 237G, f. 1122). The adventive species, 



Ualca rohindifolia (and possibly ju»rt?'i'i/7o?'aj 



and'il/. crlspa, Fcctticuhnn vnhjare^ FAij^lorhia heUoseop'ia^ Meratriaiis annua, 



Urtica livens, and a llamex : the two others are " Umbilicus Veneris " and 



Kos Solis foliis rotundiore : in summitate Montis Tabular! " — the former 



of the numerous Crassulacese, which on general grounds 



in the same year (Sloano 

 indo-in<>- from synonymy, were 



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probably one 



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probably Frosera ameifi 

 rrow on Table Mountain. 



" Oldenlandus (Henric. Beunh.), natiotie Danus, secundus fuit Botani- 

 ^ui ad Caput bonse spei accessit et plantas ibi conquisivit, cujus 



cus ( 



herbarium jam possidet cl. Burmannus, Prof. Amstelodamensis " 



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♦ Petiver went to Holland in June 1711 to buy this and other parts of Hermann's 

 collection for Sloaue. 



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