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Landon, Sylvanus (ii. 1699). Surgeon. Brought plants to 

 Petiver from Spain, Azores, and Borneo, Mus. Pet. 45. 



Landsborough, Rev. David (1779-1854) : b. Dairy, Glen Kens, 

 Galloway, 11th Aug. 1779; cl. Saltcoats, Ayrsh., 12th Sept. 

 1854. Minister of Stevenston, Ayrshire, 1811. A.L.S., 1849. 

 D.D. 'Pop. Hist. Brit. Seaweeds,' 1849; ed. 3, 1857. Con- 

 tributed to Harvey's ' Phytologia.' Discovered Ectocarjms 

 Landshurqii. Pritz. 175 ; Jacks. 242 ; ' Memoir ' in his ' Arran,' 

 ed. 2, 1875 ; E. S. C. iii. 836 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 426. 

 Lamhhiuujia Harv. 



Langham, William (fl. 1579-1633). * Practitioner in Physicke.' 

 * The Garden of Health,' 1579 ; ed. 2, 1633. Jacks. 28. 



Langley, Batty (fl. 1729-1808). Of Twickenham. ' Pomona, or 

 the Fruit-Garden ; illustrated,' 1729 (figures by author). Pritz. 

 ed. 1, 148. 



Langley, Larret (fl. 1827-1839). Of Brompton Academy, Piother- 

 ham. F.L.S., 1827. 'Flora of Piotherham,' Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1829, 269. 



Lankester, Edwin (1814-1874): b. Melton, Suffolk, 23rd April, 

 1814; d. 30th Oct. 1874. M.D., Heidelberg, 1839. F.R.S., 

 1846. F.L.S.,1840. Sec. of Ray Society, 1844-1862. 'Forma- 

 tion of Wood,' Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1839. ' Setae of Fiinaria,' 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. (1840), 361. 'Plants and animals in . . . 

 waters of Harrogate,' ih. vii. (1814), 105. Contrib. to Phytol. i. 

 Wrote Botany in 'Penny Cyclopedia' from letter R. Translated 

 Schleiden, 1849. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xii. 202 ; Pritz. 176; 

 Jacks. 570 ; R. S. C. iii. 844 ; Athenaeum, ii. 1874. Portr. Men 

 of Eminence, 1865. Lankesteria Lindl. 



Laurence, or Lawrence, Rev. John (1688-1732) : b. St. Mar- 

 tin's, Stamford Baron, Northamptonsh., 1668 ; d. Bishop's 

 AVearmouth, Durham, 18th May, 1732 ; bur. same place. 

 M.A., Camb. Rector of Yelvertoft, 1703. Rector of Bishop's 

 Wearmouth, 1721. Prebendary of Salisbury, 1723. 'A new 

 system of Agriculture . . . containing an . . . account of . . . 

 Silphium,' 1726. Additions to ed. 5 of Curtis' ' British Grasses,' 

 1812. Journ. Hort. xxx. (1876), 271, with portr. Portr. in 

 j)ossession of Pemberton family. 



Law, John Sutherland (d. 1886?). Of Bombay Civil Service. 

 F.L.S., 1856. Collected in Deccan, Concan, &c. Wight, Ic. 

 1070. PI. at Kew. Lasegue. Latvia Wight = Adenosacme. 

 Laiiia Griff. = Teniiola Tul. 



Lawrence, Miss Mary (fl. 1790-1810). Of London. ' Teacher 

 of botanical drawing.' 'A collection of Roses from Nature,' 

 1799. 'A collection of Passion Flowers,' 1799-1800. Pritz. 

 177 ; Jacks. 142. 



Lawrence, Robert William (1807-1833) ; b. 18th Oct. 1807; d. 

 Tasmania, 18th Oct. 1833. Collected in Western Mountains, 

 Tasmania. Lasegue, 328 ; Journ. Bot. 1834, 235 ; Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 272; Fl. Tasmania, cxxv. ; R. S. C. ih. 894. Law- 

 reiicia Hook. 



Lawson, Isaac (fl. 1737-1747): b. in Scotland; d. before 1748. 

 M.D., Leyden, 1737. Friend of Linnaeus and Gronovius. 



