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Shuttleworth's plant may not after all be a large-flowered form of 

 that species. 



Mr. Bicknell (Bull. Torr. Club, 1897, 530) says "there is little 

 doubt that Salisbury's name, A. latifolium, is a synonym" of 

 A. canndense. Even that little may disappear, for Salisbury — who 

 had singularly lax views as to the laws of priority — cites A. cana- 

 deme as identical with his plant. 



BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH 



BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S,, F.G.S. 



First Supplement (1893-97). 



Five years having elapsed since the date to which we brought 

 down our original work, it appears desirable to issue a supplement 

 to include the names of botanists who have died between J anuary 1st, 

 1893, and December 31st, 1897, together with some which were 

 accidentally omitted from the original Index. 



The present Supplement naturally follows the plan of the original 

 work : serial sources of information previously consulted have now 

 been examined down to the end of 1897, and few others require 

 special mention. It may, however, be well to state explicitly that 

 only deceased botanists are included in the list : this, by an over- 

 sight, was nowhere stated in the original Index. 



The only work of importance in addition to those already cited 

 in the Index is ' First Records of British Flowering Plants,' by 

 W. A. Clarke, F.L.S. (1897); we refer to this as Clarke. 



It is proposed on the completion of the publication of the 

 Supplement in the Journal of Botaiuj to reissue it separately in 

 pamphlet form, together with one or two pages of minor corrections 

 referring to the original work. The compilers will be glad to receive 

 any assistance in drawing up these. 



Acton, Edward Hamilton (1862-95): b. Wrexham, 16th Nov. 

 1862; d. Cambridge, 15th Feb. 1895. B.A., Camb., 1885. 

 Chemist and physiologist. ' Practical Physiology of Plants ' 

 [with Francis Darwin] , 1894. R.S.C. ix. 10. ' Eagle,' March, 

 1895 ; Journ. Bot. 1895, 127. 



Alexander, William Thomas (1818-1872) : b. 23rd June, 1818; 

 d. 31st May, 1872. Assistant- Surgeon, R.N. On H.M.S. 

 'Plover' in East Indies and China, 1845-6. Collected ferns, 

 mosses, &c., on Chinese coast, Chusan, Hongkong, and Loochoo 

 Islands. Fungi of Cloyne, 1852. Journ. Bot. 1848, 273 

 (erroneously T. Anderson) ; 1853, 236 ; 1857, 333, 353 ; 1894, 

 294, 299. R.S.C. i. 44. Phyt. iv. 727. Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 

 pref. 11. 



Allom, Elizabeth Anne (fl. 1841). ^ Of Margate. 'The Sea- 

 weed Collector .... illustrated with natural specimens from 



