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at were the Vaseul;ir Crvptogams and Petaloid Monocotyledons"; 

 to the latter he devoted tliree Handbooks — AmaryUiilece (1S8S), 

 BroineliacccB (1889), and the Iridece ah-ead\^ nientunied : the 

 LiUaceurwdYi^ treated in vols, xi.-xviii. of the Journal of the Linnean 

 Societj/. He contributed largely to the series of colonial floras pre- 

 pared at Kew : the sixth volume of the Flora Capeiisis — Hwtno- 

 (loracece to LiUacece (l8J){)-7) — is entirely from Baker's pen ; the same 

 orders were also imdertaken by him for the Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 to which he had already contributed the Fapilionacca', Labiat(S, 

 Verhenacece and other orders, beginning in 1868 : he monogra])hed 

 the Brazilian Composifce (2 vols. : 1878-84) for Martius's Flora, 

 and the Legumi)ios(B for the Flora of British India. Of the 

 extensive collections of the Rev. K. Baron and others in Madagascar, 

 Baker described in the Journal of the Linnean Society/ (1877-11)05) 

 more than a thousand new species. The seventeenth volume of 

 Hookers Icones Flanta rum, devoted entirely to fei-nsand comprising 

 a thousand species, is from Baker's pen ; he also undertook The 

 Flora of J\laurifii(s and the Seychelles (1877) — perha])s the least 

 satisfactory of his works. He also prepared for Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders the text for four of the five volumes of his Refugiuni 

 Botanicum (1868-78). 



Meanwhile, as his contributions to this and other journals show, 

 Baker always maintained his interest in Bi-itish botany. In 1864 he 

 ])ublished in The Naturalist, then edited by C. P. Hobkirk, a 

 " Review of British Roses,'' and in the same 3^ear published and dis- 

 tributed a set of specimens under the title ILerharium Bosarum 

 Britanfiicarum \ this paper he am])litied later in the 'Monograph' 

 ])ublished in the Linnean Society's Journal (xi. 1869). The genus 

 Bosa, one of the first which he studied, always retained its attraction 

 for him ; a classification of it appeared in this Jouinal for 1885 and 

 in revised form in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 70-79 (1905), His 

 chief undertaking, after his retirement from the Kew Herbarium, 

 was in connection with Miss Willmott's magnificent work on Hoses 

 f 1910-14), to which he contributed the introduction and technical 

 descri]>tions. 



In 1865 Baker published in this Journal a monograph of British 

 mints, and notes on the plants collected in England and Wales 

 during his holidays appeared from time to time: his interest, indeed, 

 continued to the end, as is shown by the list of Burnham Beeches 

 ])lants printed in 1917. In 1868 appeared the New Flora of Norlh- 

 u mherland and Durham, in which he collaborated with G. R. Tate. 

 His Flora of the English Lake District (1885) was the result of 

 many visits, and included the "widely-scattered records of [his] 

 forerunners in the botanical exploration of the district " : it is 

 ])refaced by a bibliography in which particulars are given of some of 

 the authors. Biograpliy always had an attraction for Baker, as 

 many contributions to these pages show — the sketch of his friend 

 H. C. Watson (Journ. Bot. 1881, 265) may be cited as an example : 

 "The Fathers of Yorkshire Botany" (Bot. Trans. Yorksh. Nat. 

 Union, i. 185-201 and " Biographical Notes on the Early Botanists 

 of Northumberland and Durham" (Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumber- 



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