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which he left " saturated with disappointment and affront," resolved 

 " to record the behaviour which occasioned my perplexity " — this he 

 does at some length (op. cit. 25-28) — and "to return to the scene of 

 it' no more." Whatever Lee's scientitic knowledge of the plants ma}"" 

 have been, it is cei-tain that he had a large li\dng collection of them, 

 and it was from this that his daughter made the drawings which form 

 the subject of this note. Ha worth himself, however, was recognized 

 by Dryander as the principal authority on the genus ; this is evident 

 from the fact that in the second edition of the Ilortus Keiveyisia 

 the arrangement of the genus in his Miscellanea JS^aiuralia (1803) 

 is exclusively followed, and the diagnoses of the species are in evTry 

 case taken from it, with reference : even the species originally 

 described in Hort. Kew. ed. 1 are here cited from " Haworth Misc. 

 Nat.," the original place of publication being ignored. 



Of the artist herself little is known, but her work was evidently 

 (and deservedly) in repute in the middle of the eighteenth century, 

 to wdiich period most of the scanty references to her relate. The 

 drawings of Mesembryanthemum range in date from 177G to 1778 ; 

 Stokes (Commentaries^ p. cxxviii) says that Fothergill (1712-80) 

 engaged her to make colom-ed drawings of the I'arer plants in his 

 garden at Upton (Essex) ; and Davall (1763-98), writing to Smith 

 in Januar}^ 1790, speaks of "Miss Lee's drawing of Frotea mellifera " 

 as being in her father s possession, thus suggesting that she herself 

 was dead at that time. Some thirty years ago (see Journ. Bot. 1884, 

 123), Mr. James (misprinted John) Lee, grandson of James and thus 

 nephew of Ann, was good enough to show me some excellent Hower- 

 drawungs, dated 1771-76, which were the work of his aunt, and her 

 numerous drawings of birds and insects are also in possession of the 

 family. She also collected insects : of these Thunbei'g, when visiting 

 James Lee while in England in 1778, saw^ her "fine collection " which 

 had just been increased by " the uncommonly beautiful insects from 

 the coast of Bengal which Lady Monson had collected there and 

 bequeathed to Miss Lee" {Travels, iv. 291). 



1. M. CADUCUM Ait. Hoi-t. Kew. ii. 179. 

 The drawing of this is from a specimen past flowering and is of little 

 value. The name on the drawing is in Solander's hand, but the 

 diagnosis as printed in Hort. Kew^, which is followed by a full 

 description, in that of Dryander. In Ind. Kew. the species is 

 entered as " [Soland. in] Ait. Hort. Kew." : the reasons, sufficiently 

 conclusive, against this method of citation are set forth in my 

 History of Aiton's ' Ilortus Kewensis ' (p. 4) issued as Supple- 

 ment III. to this Journal for 1912. It appears from the book kept 

 in the Banksian Herbarium (now in Bot. Dept.) in which were 

 entered the plants brought to be named from Kew (1777-97) and 

 other gardens that this was brought in May 1778 : Dryander notes 

 " preserved in spirits to be examined with the rest." A few Banksian 

 s])ecimens in spirits, without (or with illegible) labels are in the 

 Department ; they are probably identical with some of the species of 

 Hort. Kew. and should be examined by monographers. In common 

 with most of the Hort. Kew. species, this was introduced by Masson 

 in 1774 : an interesting note as to the extent of the genus is in 



