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Lam. in Mem. Acad. Paris, 1784, 342 (1787) ; Encycl. i. 471 

 (1784) ; Banks ex Bruce Trav. v. (Appendix) 72 (1790). 



B. ferruginea L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. t. x. (1874) ; Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. iii. 397 (1789). 



B. abyssinica Spreng. Pugill. ii. 90 (1815). 



Not much is known of John Frederick Miller. He was one 

 of the sons of John Miller (Johann Sebastian Muller) and followed 

 his father's profession of artist and engraver. He accompanied 

 Banks and Solander to Iceland (misprinted "Ireland" in Diet. 

 Nat. Biogr.) as artist in 1772 ; a list of his Iceland drawings will 

 be found in Journ. Bot. 1907, 314. He subsequently drew plants 

 for Banks at Kew and elsewhere ; we have in the Department of 

 Botany a number of these, ranging in date from 1772 to 1774 : 

 among them are the original sketches for some of the plates in 

 the Icones — Alstrcemeria Ligta (t. 2), Illicium floridanum (t. 5), 

 Antholyza athiopica (t. 9), and Brucea already mentioned. Of 

 many of these, as of some of the Iceland plants, finished drawings 

 were made (also for Banks and now in the Department of Botany) 

 by Thomas Burgis, who was inferior to Miller as an artist. Miller 

 engraved (and drew ?) some of the plates for Weston's Universal 

 Botanist (vol. iv. 1777). His brother James also drew plants for 

 Banks. 



James Britten. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Maianthemum bifolium in England (p. 202). — In Mr. A. B. 

 Jackson's interesting account of the above species he has not re- 

 ferred (p. 205) to Mr. Braby's (not " Breby ") own account of its dis- 

 covery in Yorkshire in Science Gossip for 1876, p. 210. He there 

 gives the history of his finding it, with extracts from letters from 

 Mr. Mitten, Mr. Borrer, and Dr. Walker Arnott. Mr. J. G. Baker 

 (North Yorkshire, ed. 2, p. 381 (1892) ) remarks, after giving the 

 station : " This is the only British station where the plant is 

 clearly indigenous." Mr. Jackson strangely leaves out its northern 

 distribution. It ranges in Sweden from Scania right up to Lap- 

 land ; in Finland only misses the most northern provinces, and 

 occurs up to 69° 4' N. lat. ; while in Norway it extends up to 

 69° 50' N. lat. Dr. Boswell Syme, who knew the Caen Wood 

 locality well, never supposed it native there, but the authors 

 of the Flora of Middlesex suggest " possibly native." — Arthur 

 Bennett. 



Elymus arenarius L. in South Devon (p. 226). — In the 

 Victoria History of the County of Devon (1906), p. 80, I wrote : 

 " The sea lyme-grass was recorded by Hudson in 1778 as inhabit- 

 ing the sea-coast near Exmouth ; it was also reported from the 

 same station by Jones and Kingston in 1829 on the authority of 

 Miss Filmore, and by Kavenshaw in 1860 on the authority of Mr. 

 Edward Parfitt ; but according to a manuscript note in the British 

 Museum herbarium copy of Kavenshaw's List, Mr. Parfitt's speci- 



