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It would seem that the Cape flora had a special attraction for Solan der, 

 altliouirh his opportunities for becoming personally acquainted with it were 



so si i gilt. 



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es the MS. "Index Plantarum Capensium '' mentioned In 

 the lext, there are in the Department two others, both excellent examples of 

 the thoroughness of Solander's work. The former, a small quarto entitled 

 " Flora Capensis," is in two parts ; the first contains a catalogue of the Cape 

 plants then known, including tliose collected by Banks and Solander as well 

 as those previously described, with references to the second edition of the 

 * Species Plantarum' and to other works, and an indication of the species 

 regarded as undescribod. The second MS. (a folio)— the <' Florula Capensis 

 mentioned on p. 29 — is of a more ambitious nature ; it is a systematic list 



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Thunberg, llobertson, Brande, and the Forsters— and may be regarded as a 

 catalogue of the Cape plants in the Banksian Herbarium, in which however 

 I have not come across specimens from the two last named. The notes on the 

 species, by Solander and Dryander, are often of considerable interest ; they 

 include identifications of plants which in tlie Herbarium bear MS. names, 

 references to Massoh's drawings and descriptions, and in many instances 

 definite indications of the localities where the specimens were collected 

 which usofnlly supplement the" Prom. B.Spei" endorsed on the Herbarium 

 slieets. The '' M. " and " B. " prefixed to the names indicate the presence of 

 the species in the Masson and Banksian herbaria. The attention of workers 



seldom if ever 



mav be directed to this volume which, so far as 1 Know, is 



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consulted. 



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