FRANCIS Bauer's 'delineations of exotic plants' 107 



that an exposed mainland situation will account for the more 

 abundant clothing of the involucre and robustness of the whole 

 plant. But should not this circumstance have produced leaves 

 more strongly dentate rather than (as it is) less so? Mr. W. H. 

 Beeby, to whom we have submitted specimens, shares our doubt, 

 but neither he nor we can suggest a better name." 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

 XXVI. — Francis Bauer's ' Delineations of Exotic Plants.' 



In a description of this work published in this Journal for 1899 

 (pp. 181-3) no reference is made to the authority which should be 

 cited for the names of the Heaths figured, when these happen to be 

 new. The matter has been brought under my notice ia connection 

 with Erica se.vfaria, which is there published for the first time. 

 There is no letterpress to the work, save for Banks's preface, but 

 the name of each plant is printed on the plate, and this has been 

 accepted as an adequate pubhcation. 



Salisbury (in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 334 (1802) ) cites for E. sex- 

 farla '• PI. Kew. f. 11 "; in Alton's Hortus Kewensis (ed. 2, ii. 864 

 "(1811)) it stands as ''Icon. hort. Kew. 11"; Bentham (in DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 618 (1892)) has " Dryand. ! in Bauer icon. pi. Kew. 

 t. 11 " ; and Mr. Jackson in his Inde.v has "Ait. Exot. PI. t. 11." 

 Bentham, who consulted the Banksian Herbarium when preparing 

 his monograph, is undoubtedly right in supposing that Dryander is 

 responsible for the name ; it appears in his handwriting not only 

 on the herbarium sheets, but on Bauer's original drawings for the 

 work (nearly all of which are named by Dryander), and in Solander's 

 MSS., where it is substituted for names previously given by Solander. 

 Unfortunately Bentham's citations are not consistent ; for E. longi- 

 folia (which is written up in the Herbarium in Dryander's hand) he 

 cites "Ait. in Bauer icon. hort. Kew. t. 4), while the next species, 

 E. Leeana (which is not written up by Dryander) is given as 

 " Dryand. in Bauer icon. hort. Kew. t. 24." 



Whether, however, Dryander can rightly be cited as the authority 

 for these names must depend upon howfar it is justitiable to go beyond 

 the information which appears on the title-page of a book. This 

 question is of importance in connection with Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, 

 as to which something was said in this Journal for 1897, p. 481. 

 In the present instance, however, the difficulty is increased by the 

 fact that, as will be seen from the title-page of the work, reprinted 

 in Journ. Bot. 1899, p. 181, and from the other information there 

 given, Alton had no part in it save in so far that he was the 

 Curator of Kew Gardens, from which the plants figured were 

 derived. It may of course be urged that the phrase " published by 

 W. T. Alton," taken literally, justifies the attribution of tlie "pub- 

 lication" to him, especially as there was another pubhsher in the 

 ordinary sense of the word ; and it is no doubt this last view which 



