the compendium of smith's 'English eloka.' 177 



of most of the Latinized terms, by means of the note which precedes 

 the Index, and of the few words that are accentuated throughout the 

 book." A description of the plan of the work, which " is the same 

 as that of the Compendium mentioned above," follows; other addi- 

 tions to the matter taken from the English Flora are indicated in 

 the concluding note, which states that " the figures annexed to the 

 genera refer to the Orders of Jussieu ; and those annexed to the 

 species, to the volumes and plates of the ' English Botany.' " " The 

 last four pages of the book, following the indexes, are occupied by 

 the " Index to Jussieu's Orders," to which the figures attached to 

 the genera refer. 



It is thus evident that the Compendium is more than a mere 

 compilation, and that the author was a competent botanist. The 

 descriptions, based on the lines of the Compendium Florae Britan- 

 nicce (which was in Latin) are very well done, and full}'' justify the 

 author's anticipation of the usefulness of the book. Further evidence 

 that it is rightly attributed to Maclntyre is suggested by its supply- 

 ing the accentuation of the Latin names ; Mr. Christy refers to 

 a book published by him in 1836, entitled Ftymotonia, "containing 

 Principles of Classical Accentuation, intended as a Guide to the 

 right Pronunciation of Greek and Latin words and of all Scientific 

 Terms," " which shows its author to have been a very accomplished 

 Latin and Greek Scholar." Since the publication of his paper, 

 Mr. Christy has informed me that he has learnt that in 1823— 1 

 Maclntyre kept a large private school at Stockwell Park, Surrey, 

 which apparently was not a successful venture. 



In 1836 appeared the second edition of the Compendium, " with 

 additions and corrections by W. J. Hooker." It may be supposed 

 that the publishers thought that the book, which was presumably 

 their property, would obtain greater prominence if it appeared under 

 the auspices of a well-known botanist whose British Flora was at 

 that time the standard work of reference, for Maclntyre was then 

 alive ; his name appears in the list of Fellows of the Linnean Society 

 for 1813, with the initials " LL.D." appended. Mr. Christy can find 

 no explanation of this degree, nor of " V.P.M.S.L.," which also 

 follows Maclntyre's name in Proc. Bot. Soc. Lond. It may be noted 

 that the date of his "floruit" in the Biographical Index is almost 

 certainly erroneous ; the last reference to him, so far as we know, is 

 in the Linnean list cited. 



For the second edition, also published by Longman, the Com- 

 pendium was reset; it was printed in Glasgow, where Hooker was 

 then Begius Professor of Botany. The preface, beginning with an odd 

 misprint — " A principal boject of Botany," — is practically identical 

 with that of the first edition, a reference to " the third edition of the 

 first vol. of The British Flora of Dr. Hooker " being added. The 

 " Index to Jussieu's Orders " is omitted, though the figures in the 

 text relating to it are retained ; numerous species (indicated by a 

 prefixed asterisk) are added, with notes on some of the species ; the 

 revision was evidently careful and thorough. This edition was re- 

 issued without alteration (save for the correction of the misprint 

 indicated above) in 1844, and for a long time held its place as 

 a useful guide to British plants. 



