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1656. Britten, James. Blake's plant names. Garden 84: 80-81, 243-244, 276. 1920.— 

 Identification of plants described under old (and very badly spelled) English common names 

 in Stephen Blake's Compleat Gardeners Practice. [See also Bot. Absts. 8, Entries 1674, 

 1717.]— M. F. Warner. 



1657. [Britten, James.] Clarence Bicknell. Jour. Botany 56: 303. 1918. — Clarence 

 Bicknell (1842-1918) was the author of a quarto volume (1885) on the Flowering Plants and 

 Ferns of the Riviera and Neighboring Mountains. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1658. [Britten, James.] Claude Frederick Hugh Monro. Jour. Botany 56: 335. 1918. 

 —Monro (died Aug. 14, 1918, aged 55) was a collector of plants in Rhodesia, and published 

 2 papers, 1 on the grasses and 1 on the trees of the region. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1659. Britten, James. The cultivated dahlia. Jour. Botany 56: 33-35. 1918.— The 

 introduction of the dahlia to the gardens of England was practically due to Lady Holland 

 who, in 1804, sent seeds from Spain. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1660. Britten, James. The Duchess of Beaufort's flower drawings. Garden 84: 428- 

 429. 1920. — The Duchess, who died in 1714, was the friend of Sir Hans Sloane and in corre- 

 spondence with the principal botanists and horticulturists of her day. Her herbarium, now 

 in the Department of Botany of the British Museum (Natural History), is frequently quoted 

 in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis for the first introduction of plants into England. These 2 volumes 

 of paintings of plants grown at Badminton at the beginning of the 18th century include a 

 great many species which have hitherto been supposed to have been introduced to living 

 collections at a much later date, while a number of them are no longer in cultivation. The 

 plates of the 1st volume were done by Everard Kickius and some of them are very fine; while 

 those of the other volume, by Daniel Frankcom, have less artistic merit, but are very faithful 

 representations. — M. F. Warner. 



1661. [Britten, James.] Edward Walter Hunnybun (1848-1918) and "The Cambridge 

 British Flora." Jour. Botany 56: 248-250. 1918.— A short sketch of Hunnybun's life is pre- 

 ceded by a description of his methods of work in preparing illustrations for The Cambridge 

 British Flora. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1662. [Britten, James.] Ernest David Marquand (1848-1918). Jour. Botany 56: 187- 

 189. 1918. — Marquand was "an all-round naturalist," best known for his studies on the flora 

 of Guernsey. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1663. Britten, James. Felix Gilbert Wiltshear (1882-1917). Jour. Botany 56: 117-118. 

 1918.— Wiltshear was in charge of the library of the Department of Botany of the British 

 Museum from 1905 until he entered the army in 1916, and contributed various important 

 bibliographical notes to the Journal of Botany. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1664. Britten, James. "John" Roxburgh. Jour. Botany 56: 202-203. 1918.— The sup- 

 posed botanist of this name seems to be fictitious. The collecting attributed to him was 

 probably done by William Roxburgh, author of the Flora Indica, whose son James bore 

 part of the expense of its publication. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1665. Britten, James. Lady Anne Monson (c. 1714-1776). Jour. Botany 56: 147-149. 

 1918. — Lady Monson was a student of the plants and insects of the East Indies. — Neil E. 

 Stevens. 



1666. Britten, James. Morandi's 'Historica [sic] Botanica Practica.' (Bibliographical 

 notes LXXn.) Jour. Botany 56: 212-217. 1918. — Description of the Historia Botanica 

 Practica (Mediolani, 1744) of Giovanni Battista Morandi, and of a very interesting manu- 

 script in the Department of Botany of the British Museum which comprises 122 original 

 drawings for this book, and 4 works in Morandi's own hand: an Explicatio Plantarum, which 



