XOTES FROM THE XATIOXAL HERBARIUM 3J:5 



Herbarium so far as additional thereto. The following note bv Rudge, 

 which accompanied the collection, mav as well be placed on record : 

 " This Herbarimn consists of the following collections : Dickson's 

 British Plants published in Fasciculi and also his Fascicuh of Italian 

 specimens, the other British Plants were collected bj Samuel Pudge, 

 Esq., in the neighbourhood of Elstree [Herts], together with such 

 garden specimens as were contained in his Hortus Siccus, and the 

 others were collected in several other counties by myself. [W.] Tor- 

 ner's Herbarium, which forms the chief part of this collection, was 

 purchased for £21 and was principally formed by him during the 

 time he acted as Librarian at Sir Jos. Banks's, from the duplicates in 

 the Banksian Herbarium, and it also contains many specimens col- 

 lected by him in the Xorth of Sweden and from the Botanic Garden 

 at Upsal. The Ericse were given to me mostly b}^ Mr. Salisbury, 

 from whose catalogue of the genus in the Linn. Trans, they are 

 naijied. The Fuci were chiefly from the collection of Dawson Turner, 

 Esq. The whole have been carefully examined and compared with 

 the Banksian Herb, and are marked in the left-hand corner HB to 

 show that they correspond with the specimens in that Herbarium." 

 Some of Turner's sheets are endorsed " not in H.B." — -an indication 

 which in many cases had ceased to be correct at the date when the 

 herbarium was acquired. In P. Brown's corresi^ondence is a letter 

 (80 April, 1845) from Thomas (Ignatius Maria) Forster in which he 

 mentirjus that among letters addressed to his father (Thomas Furley 

 Forster) were some from Torner dated from Banks's library (Soho 

 Square) relating often to Afzelius. 



Salisbury's Drawings of Erica. 



There are in the Herbarium a number of small admirably finished 

 drawings in ink, by P. A. Salisbury, of the flowers and leaves of 

 various species of Erica, the history of which I have only lately 

 ascertained. When I first knew them they were among other 

 drawings in the Department, but as they were clearly connected with 

 Salisbury's work in the Banksian Herbarium, which his notes on the 

 sheets show to have been very considerable, it seemed best for con- 

 venience of reference to add them to the sheets. At the same time a 

 number of fragments bearing Salisbury's names, which were in 

 p ickets in a little box, were in like manner incorporated ; the history 

 of these is given by Salisbury in his preface to his second edition of 

 Thunberg's Disserfatio de Erica (1800). Having explained that in 

 this, " editoris potius quam correctoris oflicium susceperim," and that 

 he had reprinted the work textually, adding a few notes, he points 

 out the necessity of knowing the true characters of species " sa^pe 

 perplexas," and continues : " Frustulum igitur plurium rariorum 

 Ericarum in hac monographia, quas vivas colo, ingratiam indoctorum 

 delineavi, tum Folio, tum Anthera, ubi res ita postulabat, seorsim 

 additis." The figures, to the number of twenty-four, which aj^pear 

 on the plate accompanying the Disserfatio, are selected from the 

 drawings, which show many more details than are here reproduced. 



Other figures, giving details of various species, will be found in 

 vol. iii (pp. 289-292) of the too little known collection of Salisbury's 

 drawings and MSS., also in the Department of Botany. 



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