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Lobb, William (1809-1863): b. East Cornwall, 1809; d. San 

 Francisco, 1863; bur. Lone Mt. Cemetery. Brother of pre- 

 ceding. Collector for Yeitch in S. America, 1840-8, and in 

 California, 1849-1857. Veitch, 'Manual of the Coniferae,' 

 p. 258. Lohhia Planch. 



Lobel, Matthias de (1538-1616): b. Lille, Flanders, 1538; 

 d. Highgate, 1616. Botanographer to James I. Pupil of 

 Eondeletius at Montpelier. 'Adversaria Nova' [with Peter 

 Pena] , London, 1570-1. ' Observationes,' Antwerp, 1576. 



• Illustrationes,' ed. W. How, 1655. Superintendent of Lord 

 Zouch's garden. Hackney. Introduced Ephedra distachya, 1570 ; 

 Salvia gra7idi/iora, 161(5. Pult. i. 96 ; Eees ; Pritz.194; Jacks. 

 574 ; Fl. Midd. 369. Eugr. portr. fol. vign. by Francis Della- 

 rame, 1615. Copy at Kew. Lobelia L. 



Lockhart, David (d. 1846) : d. Trinidad, 1846. Kew gardener. 



Assistant to Christian Smith on Congo Expedition, 1816 : sole 



survivor of the staff. Lasegue, 444. Plants from Bahia in Hb. 



Mus. Brit. Journ. Bot. 1847, 40; R. S. C. iv. 68; Card. 



Chron. 1885, xxiv. p. 286. Lockhartia Hook. 

 Lockhead, William (d. 1815) : d. St. Vincent Bot. Garden, 22nd 



March, 1815 ; bur. in the garden. Succeeded Anderson as 



Curator, July, 1811. Drawings in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. 



R. S. C. iv. 67 ; Guilding, 'Account of St. Vincent Bot. Card.,' 



1825. 

 Loddiges, Conrad (d. 1820) : b. Germany ; d. Hackney, 1820. 



Nurseryman, Hackney, from 1771 ? Introduced plants from 



Michaux, Bartram : Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 84. 'Botanical 



Cabinet,' 1817. Pritz. 194; Jacks. 574; Bot. Mag. t. 965. 



Loddigesia Sims. 

 Loddiges, George (1784-1846) : b. Hackney, 12th March, 1784 ; 



d. Hackney, 5th June, 1846. F.L.S., 1821. Son of preceding. 



♦ Botanical Cabinet,' 1817-1834, with many of the plates drawn 

 by himself. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 334. 



Loftus, William Kennett (c. 1821-1858) : b. 1821 ? ; d. on board 

 ' Tyburnia,' returning from India, November, 1858. F.G.S. 

 On Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, 1849-1852. Conductor 

 of Assyrian Excavation Expedition, 1853-1855. On Indian 

 Geological Survey from 1855. Collected in Assyria, Persia, &c. 

 Plants in Brit. Mus. and Herb. Kew. Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 

 iii. (1858-59), 259. 



Logan, James (1674-1751) : b. Lurgan, Ireland, 1674 ; d. Stan- 

 ton, Pennsylvania, 31st Oct. 1751. Went to America with 

 Penn, 1699. Secretary of Pennsylvania, 1701 ; Governor, 1736. 

 ' Experimenta .... de plantarum generatione,' Leyden, 1739; 

 in English, London, 1747. Pult. ii. 277 ; Pritz. 195 ; Jacks. 

 96 ; ' Memorials of Bartram,' 307. Logania Br. 



London, George (d. 1713). Apprentice to Rose. Gardener to 

 Bishop Compton, William and Mary, and Anne. In partnership 

 with Henry Wise at Brompton Park Nursery, 1694-1701. 

 Mus. Pet. 45 ; Johnson, 123 ; Felton, 35. 



Long, Henry Lawes (fl. 1839). 'Enquiry concerning Quercus 



