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of Clayton's plants. Writing to Haller Oct. 8, 1737, he says : 

 " Gronovius will, doubtless, soon publish the plants sent by Clayton 

 from Virginia, unless he considers too long about the matter"; and 

 on Jan. 23, 1738: "I wish [Gronovius] had not so long hesitated 

 to publish his book. He is too timid."* Smith, writing of Gro- 

 novius, says : " Gronovius received from Clayton various specimens 

 of Virginian plants, which he, tdth the assistance of LimicBus, then 

 resident in Holland, arranged according to the sexual system, and 

 with proper specific characters, descriptions, and synonyms, pub- 

 lished under the title of Flora Virginica " ; and again : " He was in 

 frequent correspondence with Linn^us, whom he furnished with 

 numerous si)edmens of American plants sent by Clayton."! Linnasus 

 also acknowledges his indebtedness to Gronovius's Herbarium in 

 the preface to the first edition of the Species Plantarum: it is more- 

 over certain that in some instances at least he had before him the 

 actual specimens from Clayton on which Gronovius based his descrip- 

 tions — as in the case of Dulichos regidaris L. {Galactia glabella Wich.) 

 which bears the Linnean name in Linnaeus 's own hand. 



James Britten. 



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). 



(Continued from p. 195.) 



Hind, Rev. William Marsden (1815-94) : b. near Belfast, 21 

 Feb. 1815; d. Walsham-le- Willows, Suffolk, 13 Sept. 1891; 

 bur. Staplehill. B.A., Dublin, 1839. LL.D., 1870. Curate of 

 Derriaghy, Co. Down, 1839. Perpet. Curate, Pinner, 1861. 

 Rector of Honnington, Suffolk, 1875. Contrib. to Melvill's 

 ' Flora of Harrow,' 1864 ; edited ed. 2, 1876. ' Flora of Suffolk,' 

 1889. British herbarium at Trin. Coll., Dubhn ; Suffolk her- 

 barium at Ipswich Museum. Jacks. 253; R.S.C. iii. 358; vii, 

 984 ; Journ. Bot. 1894, 352. 



Hogg, Robert (1818-97) : b. Coldstream, 1818 ; d. Pimlico, 14 

 March, 1897. Horticulturist. F.L.S., 1861. LL.D. Editor of 

 Cott. Gardener, afterwards Journal of Horticulture. ' Vegetable 

 Kingdom,' 1858. Edited Miss Plues's ' Eatable Funguses ' (with 

 G. W. Johnson), 1866, and Notcutt's 'Handbook of Brit. PI.,' 

 ed. 2, 1871. 'Wild Flowers of Great Britain' (with G. W. 

 Johnson), 1861-80. Pritz. 147 ; Jacks. 560 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1896-7, 57; Gard. Chron. 1897, i. 188 (portr.). 



Holland, Robert (1829-93) : b. Peckham, Surrey, 2 Aug. 1829 ; 

 d. near Acton Grange, Cheshire, 16 July, 1893. Contrib. to 



* Correspondence of Linncsus, ii. 300, 314. 

 t Bees, Cyclopcedia, xvii. 



