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to note that, on ]). 1550, the Mobinin, which Ashmole mentions, is 

 referred to individually. After speaking of it under tlie name 

 ''Pseudacacia Americana Rohini," Avhich he expressly states (p. 1552) 

 is his own name, Parkinson adds : — ^" Arbor siliquosa Virginensis 

 spinosa, Locus nostratibus dicta. The Virginian Locus tree A very 

 like tree hereunto hath beene sent and brought us out of Virginia, 

 growing to be a very great tree and of an exceeding height with 

 Master Tradescant." 



It may be added th it Loudon {Arbore/am, pp. 49-50) attributes to 

 the ekler Tradescant the introduction of the ten following species : — 

 Shrphylea trifolia, Robiiii-a Pseudacacia, Sj/ruiga persica, Pistacia 

 Terebiiithus, Rhus Cotinus, Gelt'is occidentalism Gistus laxus, 

 O. crispus, G. populifolius, and G. monspeliensis. His son is 

 credited with the eleven following : — Platanus occidentalism Taxo- 

 dium distichum, Acer rubrum, Vitis indpina, V. Labrusca, Gapri- 

 folium seiiipervirens, Jnglaiis ciiierea, Rhododendron hirsutum, 

 Jasminum humile, Gistus corborieiisis, and G. hirsutus. 



It may, perhaps, here be noted that in the Ashmole MS., no. 14G1, 

 at the Bodleian, traditionally known as " Tradescant's Orchard " — a 

 volume of 64 coloured drawings of fruits — one is named " The 

 Tradescant Cherry " and another is labelled " grown by J. T. at 

 Hatfield." 



"JOHN" ROXBURGH. 



Ik the Biofjrapihical Index of British and Irish Botanists is an 

 entry : 



" Roxburgh, Johx (fl. 1809). Son of William Roxburgh. 

 Resided at Cape four to five years for purpose of collecting. Sent pi. 

 to Lambert. Plants in Brit. Mus. D. Don, Appendix to Lambert's 

 'Pinus.'" 



This informatio 1 is mainly derived from Don (as cited), whose 

 note in full is : 



" Mr. John Roxburgh, who resided at the Cape four or five years 

 for the purpose of collecting plants, sent a very large collection of 

 specimens, well preserved and particularly rich in the genera Erica, 

 Brunia, Biosma, Phylica, Borbonia, Hermannia, Aspalathus, 

 3Iahernia, etc." 



In this Journal for 1916 (p. 303), in the course of a paper on 

 John Fleming, I n\ex\i\o\-\ii(S. i\\^i Fleiningia prostrata, pubUshed in 

 vol. iii. of Carey's edition of William Roxburgh's Flora Indica, was 

 attributed to " Roxb. Jun." : on this I commented — " This seems to 

 indicate that it was added by James Roxburgh, who wrote the preface 

 to the volume, though I was not previously aware that either he 

 or his brother John, who may possibly be intended, had published 

 species." 



It was then a question whether James should be included in the 

 new edition of the Biographical Index, and it became evident that 

 he, and not John, was the only son of William Roxburgh who had 

 any claims for insertion, for the simple reason that John had no 

 existence! This is made evident by the "family table" of the 



