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London Journal of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany. 

 9 vols. 1849-57. 



From this list it appears that throughout a long term of 

 years, though under varying titles, the stream of information 

 gathered chiefly through garden management was edited and 

 published, taking the form of 28 volumes, with 556 plates. 



The "Floristic" works of Sir William Hooker began with 

 the second edition of Curtis's Flora Londinensis, in five folio 

 volumes, upon which he worked from 1817 to 1828. He con- 

 tributed a large proportion of the plates from his own drawings, 

 while the descriptions throughout (excepting those of the plates 

 on Algae and Fungi by R. K. Greville) were enlarged, and 

 rewritten by him. He was in fact the real author of the work, 

 which, however, was so badly edited even the letter-press was 

 not paged that citation of it was impossible, and it never 

 took its proper place as a scientific work. Sir Joseph Hooker 

 points out that the second edition was not properly styled Flora 

 Londinensis, since it included many species which are not in- 

 digenous anywhere near London. But these were the lapses of 

 the editor, not of the author and artist. Minor works were the 

 accounts of the plants collected on Parry's and Sabine's Arctic 

 voyages (1823-28), but the Flora Boreali Americana was 

 a more important undertaking. It appeared as two quarto 

 volumes (1829-40), in which 2500 species were described 

 with numerous illustrations. It was based on the collections of 

 various travellers, and included ferns and their allies. In 1830 

 came the first edition of the British Flora, a work which was 

 continued through eight editions, the last being in 1860, and it 

 contained 1636 species. The botanical results of Beechey's 

 voyage in the "Blossom" to the Behring Sea, the Pacific Ocean, 

 and China were produced jointly with Dr Walker-Arnott in 

 1830-41, as a quarto volume, with descriptions of about 

 2700 species, and notable for the diversity of the floras included. 

 In 1849 the Niger Flora appeared, dealing with the collections 

 of Vogel on the Niger expedition of 1841. But the most 

 remarkable of all these floristic works was the great series of 

 the Icones Plantarum. It was initiated in 1837 f r the illustra- 

 tion of New and rare plants selected from the Author s Herbarium, 



