MAUNd's " THE BOTANIST " 243 



[119. Caiophora lateritia Benth. May 1839. The identity of this 



with Loasa lateritia Hook, is not indicated in Ind. Kew.] 

 135. Acacia Miceana Hensl. Sept. 1839. 

 [169. Mimulus imniceus Benth. May 1840. This name { = Di- 



placu$ puniceus Don) is cited in Ind. Kew. from Steudel, 



NomencL ii. 150 (1841).] 

 179. Acacia dentifera Benth. Aug. 1840. F. Mueller (Second 



Census of Australian Plants) erroneously dates this 1839. 

 181. Aquilegia fragrans Benth. Aug. 1840. 

 [184. Fharbitis Learii Benth. Sept. 1840. This antedates Lindley, 



Bot. Eeg. t. 56 (1841), wliich is cited for the name in Ind. 



Kew. J 

 192. Solanum vestitum Benth. Oct. 1840. Ind. Kew. incorrectly 



gives the date as 1839. 

 [201. Oheliscaria Dnimmomlii Graham. Feb. 1841. Cited in Ind. 



Kew. as of Maund.] 

 21S. Maloa odorata Westcott. June 1841. {= Malcastrum 



capense vnr.fragrans E. G. Baker.) 



I must not conclude without expressing my thanks to Mr. S. A. 

 Skan, of the Kew Herbarium, who has on this as on other occasions, 

 notably in connection with our Biographical Index, rendered me 

 much help. 



James Britten. 



WORTHINGTON GEORGE SMITH. 

 (1835-1917.) 



Woethington George Smith, who died at Dunstable from heart 

 failure on Oct. 17 of last year, was born in North London on 

 March 23, 1835. In his early years he was a " drawing student " 

 of Greek and Roman sculpture at the British Museum, and subse- 

 quently studied for the profession of architecture. In 1858, he 

 abandoned the pursuit of architecture in favour of book-illustration 

 by wood-engraving and lithography; for many years he drew and 

 engraved architectural subjects for tlie Builder. The study of 

 ancient sculpture and ornament led him to pay close attention to 

 plant form and later to botany : he had early begun the study of the 

 larger fungi as a mental exercise. After receiving several money 

 prizes for architectural designs, he was, in 1865, awarded the Bank- 

 sian Gold Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for coloured 

 drawings of plants. 



Jiefore this time, however, he had become a member of the Socioiy 

 of Amateur Botanists, which had been I'ounded in 1862, and to which 

 reference has been made at various ti)nes in these pages in connection 

 with biographical notices of tliose of its members who eventually 

 became well known in the botanical world — Mordecai Cubitt (\)()ke 

 (1825-1914), its president; William Williamson Newbould (1819- 

 86) ; Henry Trimen (1843-96) ; with others of humbler rank, such as 

 Alfred Grugeon (1826-1913) and some still living, such as Sir W. 



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