242 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANT 



V. The Abtists. 



0£ the 250 plates which the work contained, more than a hundred 

 were conti-ihuted by Mrs. Withers, who for a long- period held a con- 

 spicuous place among the illustrators of floral magazines. She was 

 " Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide " and was already 

 well known as an artist in 1831, in which year Loudon (Gard. Mag. 

 vii. 95) speaks highly of her ability " to di-aw flowers botanically." 

 an art in which she was then giving lessons. Later he speaks {op. cif. 

 X. 452) of her " high talents and great industry," and especialK of 

 the artistic merits of a " selection of Heartseases " which were in 1S34 

 on view at the rooms of the Horticultural Society : " an eminent artist 

 happened to call while they were before us, who declaimed that he had 

 never seen any work of the kind so beautifully executed." Besides 

 plates in the Pomological Magazine (1828-80) which she illustrated 

 throughout. Transactions of the Horticultural Society, etc., Mrs. 

 Withers drew some of the plates for Bateman's O rc.lii da cece of Mexico. 

 We have in the Department of Botany three drawings from her 

 pencil: a very beautiful life-size figure of a blue Columbine, "from 

 Lord Darnley's wood, Cobham, Kent" (1847), and a reduced di-awing 

 of Zamia pungens and a cone in its natural size drawn in Kew 

 Gardens in 1839 ; the latter is a very fine piece of work. 



Most of Mrs. Withers's plates are in vols. ii. and iii., those in vol. i. 

 are mostly by R. Mills, who contributed about 60 to the work : 

 at the same time he took a chief part in illustrating Knowles 

 and Westcott's Floral CaUnet (1837-40). Other artists were 

 Miss Taylor (23), the Miss Maunds, of whom more will be said when 

 the Botanical Cabinet is considered, and Mrs. Edward Bury (8); indi- 

 vidual plates bear unfamiliar names. Writing in March, 1838, at 

 which period Mrs. Withei's was in the ascendant, " H. N. H." 

 (=Henry Noel Humphreys (1819-79) — probably the "eminent 

 artist" mentioned in the preceding paragraph) says of The Botanist : 

 " The work is veiy beautifully got up : the plates are well engraved 

 on steel and very carefully coloured : indeed, perhaps more so than 

 any work of its class except the Floral Cabinet " — the latter he 

 mentions as " the only botanical periodical, upon this scale, which 

 has taken advantage of the superiority of lithography for its plates " 

 (Gard. Mag. 1838, 174-5). 



VI. New Species, etc. 



It may be worth while to give a list with dates of the few new 

 species })ublished in The Botanist, with notes on one or two other 

 names which have suggested themselves while going through the 

 volumes. 



61. Pimelea lanata Henslow. March 1838. = ser?ce« R. Br. 

 85. Candollea CunninghamiiJ^ewth. Sept. 1838. Bentham's name 

 nowhere appears, but it is attributed to him by Maund in 

 his MS. list (see p. 241) and he accepts the responsibility 

 in Fl. Austral, i. 39. 

 101. Seliconia tricolor Benth. Jan. 1839. 

 106. Chorozema Bicl'sonii Graham. Feb. 1839. 



