2i8 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF EKITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Printed ^witli Gronovius) Limit's ' Systema Naturae.' Linn. 

 Diary, 5^0 ; Liun. Letters, i. 18 ; ii. 178, 175 ; Eich. Corr. 345. 

 Ldwsonia L. 



Lawsoii) John (cl. 1712): b. in Scotland; burnt by Indians on 

 B. ISleuse, North Carolina, 1712. Surveyor-General of North 

 Carolina from 1700. ' Voyage to Carolina,' 1709 ; reprinted as 

 * History of Carolina, containing the . . . Natural History . . ,' 

 1714. Plants in Herb. Sloane, 145, 242. Pritz. ed. 1, 150; 

 Appleton, Cyclop. Americ. Biog. ; Drake, Diet. Americ. Biog. 



Lawson, John (fl. 1829-1839). Of Elgin. ' On . . . smut-balls 

 in wheat,' Journ. Agric. ix. 1839, 269. * Treatise on Smut in 

 Grain,' 1829. E. S. C. viii. 178. 



Lawson, Rev. Thomas (1G30-1G91) : b. 10th Oct. 1630; d. 

 Great Strickland, Westmoreland, 12tli Nov. 1691 ; bur. Friends' 

 Burying-ground, Newby Head. Vicar of Eampside, Furness. 

 Afterwards master of Friends' School, Great Strickland. List 

 of plants, Eay Letters, 197. Pult. ii. 116; Eich. Corr. 5; 

 Nich. Anecd. i. 233 ;^E. Syn.. ed. 1, 43, &c. ; Pluk. Aim. 8; 

 Friends' Books, ii. 88." Hleracinm Lawsonii Vill. 



Lay, George Tradescant (fl. 1825-1843). Naturalist to H.M.S. 

 ' Blossom,' on Beechey's voyage, 1825-1828. Collected, with 

 A. Collie, in California, in 1827. Chinese plants in Hb. Mus. 

 Brit. E. S. C. iii. 896; Lasegue, 84; Hooker, 'Bot. Beechey's 

 Voyage.' Layia Hook. & Arn. 



Loathes, Rev. George Reading (1778 ?-1836) : b. 1778?; d. 

 Shropham, Norfolk, 1st Jan. 1836. M.A., Cambridge, 1813. 

 Eector of Limpenhoe, 1803; Wickhampsted, 1804. F.L.S., 

 1805. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 1823, &c. ; to Mag. Nat. Hist. ; 

 and to Bury Bot. Gard. Plants in herb, of Eev. T. Eogers, of 

 Lackford. Gent. Mag. April, 1836, p. 439. Leathesia Grciy. 



Lee, Ann (fl. 1771-1778). Daughter of James Lee. Drawings of 

 ^Icsenihnjanthemum in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. (1771-8). Journ. 

 Bot. 1884, 123. 



Lee, Arthur (1740-1792) : b. Westmoreland, Virginia, 20th Dec. 

 1740; d. Urbana, Virginia, 12th Dec. 1792. M.D., Edinb. 

 F.E.S. LL.D., Camb., Mass., 1782. Commissioner of U.S. 

 to France and Spain. Correspondent of Adanson. Pritz. ed. 1, 

 151; 'Life,' 1829. 



Lee, Henry (d. 1888): d. Croydon, 1888. F.L.S., 1866. Natu- 

 ralist to the Brighton Aquarium. ' The Vegetable Lamb of 

 Tartary,' 1887. 



Lee, James (1715-1795) : b. Selkirk, 1715 ; d. Hammersmith, 

 1795. Gardener at Syoii and Whitton. Nurseryman, circ. 

 1745, with Kennedy at Hammersmith. Had collectors in 

 America and at the Cape. Introduced Fuchsia coccinca. 'In- 

 troduction to Botany,' 1760; ed. 2, 1765; ed. 3, 1776; ed. 4, 

 1794, with portr. Pritz. 179 ; Jacks. 571 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 ii. 330 ; Loudon, Arboretum, i. 78. Lec<i L. 



Lee, John Edward (1808-1887): b. Hull, Yorksh., 21st Dec. 

 1808; d. Torquay, Devon, 18th Aug. 1887. F.G.S., 1859. 

 Geologist and Antiquarian. ' On the dispersion ... of Plants,' 

 Ma-. Nat. Hist. v. 1832, 522. E. S. C. iii. 925. 



