270 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



1781 ? ; d. Bitham House, Banbury, 27 July, 1855. Gardener 

 to Hibbert, and, from about 1809, nurseryman at Chelsea. 

 ' ProteEe,' 1809. ' Coniferous Plants,' 1850. Pritz. 166; Jacks. 

 141,408; Journ. Bot. 1886, 296; Trans. Hort. See. i. 262; 

 Gillow, Diet. Catholic Biography, vol. iv. 



Koenig, Johann Gerhard (1728-85): b. Courland?, 1728?; d. 

 Jagrenatx^orum, India, 26 June, 1728. Pupil of Linna3us. In 

 Iceland, 1765, Linn. Mantissa Gen. PI. 13. In India from 

 about 1768. Physician to the Danish settlement in Carnatic. 

 Naturalist to the Nabob of Arcot. On the Madras establishment 

 of the East India Co. in 1778. Bequeathed his plants and MSS. 

 to Banks. Collected in Ceylon, Malacca, Siam. Pritz. 168 ; 

 Roxburgh, Coromandel Plants, pref. ; Banks Corresp. iv. July 9, 

 1785. 



Krieg, David (fl. 1699-1703) : b. in Saxony. F.R.S. Physician. 

 Collected in Maryland. Correspondent of Dale. Sent plants 

 to Petiver, Mus. Pet. 45, 95. Plants in Herb. Sloane xxxvii, 

 Ixxiv, xcii ; Pult. ii. 57 ; Ray Hist. PL iii. pref. p. iii. 



Lawson, George (1828 ?-95): b. Dundee, Scotland, 1828?; d. 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10 Nov. 1895. F.B.S.Edmb. Assistant 

 to J. H. Balfour, 1848. Prof. Nat. Hist., Kingston, Canada, 

 1858. Prof. Chemistry, Halifax, Nova Scotia. ' Hist, of 

 Water-lilies,' 1850. ' Synopsis of Canadian Ferns,' 1864. Pritz. 

 177; Jacks. 570; Journ. Bot. 1896, 48; R.S.C. iii. 895; viii. 

 177; X. 532; AtheucTum, 1895, ii. 722. 



Lawson, Marmaduke Alexander (1840-96) : b. Seaton Carew, 

 Durham, 20 Jan. 1840; d. Madras, 14 Feb. 1896. M.A., 

 Camb., 1864. F.L.S., 1869. Prof. Bot., Oxon, 1868-82. 

 Director Bot. Dep., Ootacamund, 1882. Contrib. to 'Flora 

 of Trop. Africa ' and ' Flora of British India.' Herb, of Oota- 

 camund pi. at Madras. R.S.C. vii. 178; x. 532; Journ. Bot. 

 1896, 191, 239; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1895-6, 40; Kew Bull. 1896, 

 185 ; Druce, Fl. Berks, clxxvii. 



Leeds, Edward (1802-77) : b. Pendleton, 9 Sept. 1802 ; d. Bow- 

 don, Cheshire, 1877 ; bur. Bowdon. Hybridized Narcissi. Gard. 

 Chron. 1894, ii. 561, 625. 



Leipner, Adolph (1827-94): b. Dresden, 13 Aug. 1827; d. 

 Chfton, Gloucestersh., 1 April, 1894. Settled at Chfton, 1854. 

 Lecturer on Bot., Univ. Coll., Bristol. Formed bot. garden of 

 the College. A founder of Bristol Naturalists' Society, 1862. 

 ' Silica in Rubiace?e,' Journ. Microscop. Sci. v. (1857), 134. 

 ' Mosses of Bristol,' Proc. Bristol Nat. Hist. Soc. iii. (1868), 21. 

 R.S.S. iii. 944 ; viii. 198; Journ. Bot. 1894, 224. 



Leitch, John (1859?-1896): b. Monimail, Fife, 1859 ? ; d. Silloth, 

 Cumberland, 22 Dec. 1896. M.B., Edinb., 1871. Had a her- 

 barium ; did not publish. Journ. Bot. 1897, 112. 



Levinge, Harry Corbyn (1831 ?-96) : b. 1831 ? ; d. Knockdrin 

 Castle, Mullmgar, 11 March, 1896. Secretary Bengal Public 

 Works Dept. Collected ferns in Sikkim, Kashmir, and Nil- 

 ghiris. Discovered Ghara denudata in Ireland. Contrib. to 



