LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE To face p. 



Frontispiece. John Hutton Balfour (1878). 



I. Robert Morison ......... 8 



II. Great Gate of the Physic Garden, Oxford . . . . 18 



III. John Ray .......... 28 



IV. Nehemiah Grew (1701) 44. 



V. Plate from Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, 1672 . . 48 



VI. Facsimile of a page from The Comparative Anatomy of 



Trunks, Nehemiah Grew, 1675 ..... 52 



VII. From Grew's Anatomy. Sheweth the Parts of a Goosberry. 



Part of a Vine Branch cut transversly, and splitt half 



way downe y midle 56 



VIII. Stephen Hales (1759) 65 



IX. Plate 1 8 from Hales's Vegetable Staticks .... 82 



X. John Hill .......... 84 



XI. Robert Brown (circa 1856) 108 



XII. Sir William Jackson Hooker (1834) . . . . .126 



XIII. John Stevens Henslow (1851) 151 



XIV. John Lindley (1848) 164 



XV. William Griffith (1843) 178 



XVI. From Griffith's Notulae. Median section of the ovule of 



Cycas. Nucellar apex of Cycas with pollen chamber 



and pollen grains 188 



XVII. William Henry Harvey ....... 204 



XVIII. Miles Joseph Berkeley ........ 225 



XIX. Joseph Henry Gilbert ........ 233 



XX. Henry Witham of Lartington ...... 243 



XXI. William Crawford Williamson (1876) 246 



XXII. Vascular system of stem of Lepidodendron selaginoides in 



transverse section ........ 250 



XXIII. Root of Calamites (Astromyelon Williamsonis) in transverse 



section . . . . . . . . . .254 



XXIV. Cone of Calamostachys Binneyana ; sporangia and sporangio- 



phores 256 



XXV. Harry Marshall Ward (1895) 261 



XXVI. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1868) 302 



Text-fig, p. 77. Figure from Vegetable Staticks showing a vine with 

 mercury gauges in place to demonstrate root pressure. 



