38 Mr. Brown, ou the Proteacee of Jussieu. 
1735; no generic characters are there given, but from the re- 
ferences to Boerhaave’s figures it is evident that the genus is to 
be understood in the same extensive sense which he at length 
gave it in the second Mantissa.. In 1737 appeared the Genera 
Plantarum, and in it for the first time the natural generic cha- 
racter of Protea: as in this work he only cites Lepidocarpodendron 
and Hypopl yllocarpodendron of Boerhaave, it follows that here 
the genus is more limited, though its character is not peculiarly 
applicable to either of Boerhaave's genera referred to; and 
the description of anthere and germen. is not reconcilable to 
any plant whatever of the family. 1n the same year Hortus 
_Cliffortianus was published, in which he resumes his first opinion 
of Protea, reducing to it all Boerhaave's.genera, but referring 
to the character given in his own Genera Plantarum. It does 
not appear on what ground this change of opinion was formed; 
for in Clifford's garden, according to Viridarium Cliffortianum, 
there had only been two species, Protea argentea and ‚saligna, 
neither of which had flowered, and the former was already lost; 
while in his Herbarium, now in the collection of Sir Joseph 
Banks, the specimens of all the three species given in the body 
of the work are without fructification, and of Protea racemosa 
added in the appendix there is no specimen whatever. _ 
© If Linneus is to be considered in a great degree the author of 
the Prodromus Flore Leydensis, published by A. Van Royen in 
1740, as has been asserted by some of his pupils, and may be 
inferred from a passage in his Diary published by Dr. Maton, 
it must be noticed as his next work in the order of time; for 
from the same Diary it appears that he could only have been 
employed in its composition in 1738. In this work the genus 
Protea is given in the same extensive sense as in Hortus Cliffor- 
fans, and no fewer than 21 species are characterized, of which 
however 
