smith's geokgian plants. 297 



British lists, either as two species (" neither have I any doubt that 

 B. Liniaria, rutaceum, and lanceolatum are three distinct species" : 

 Boswell in Eng. Bot.) ; or as one species {matricanqfolmm) and a 

 var. lanceolatum according to Hooker & Baker's Synopsis Filicum, a 

 view which Mr. Baker strongly reasserts. 



To the British localities named in the course of this paper may 

 be added — to complete the list of those which I have met with — 

 from Turner & Dillwyn's Botanist's Guide, ii. 720 (1805), for var. y of 

 Smith's Flora Britamiica, " Side of the lake at Hornsea " (Hornsea 

 Mere, Yorkshire), " on the authority of Mr. Teesdale." 



Unfortunately, Dr. St. Brody is unable to revisit Stevenston in 

 further search for the B. matncarimfolium ; but he recollects the 

 precise spot where he obtained his specimens, and will be glad to 

 communicate with any botanist who proposes to investigate the 

 district. 



Explanation of Plate 388b &c. — b. BotrycMum matricaricefoUum A. By.-. 

 the Stevenston plant, c. B. lanceolatum Angst. : the Sands of Barry plant 

 (after Newman). 



SMITH'S GEORGIAN PLANTS. 

 By James Britten, F.L.S. 



A NOTE on a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium called my 

 attention to the descriptions of certain new species in The Natural 

 History of the rarer Lepidopteroiis hisects of Georgia (London, 1797 ; 

 2 vols. fol. pp. XV. 214, tt. civ), "collected from the observations 

 of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James 

 Edward Smith, M.D., F.R.S." From Smith's preface (which, 

 like the text throughout, is printed both in English and in French), 

 we learn that the excellent figures of insects and plants were drawn 

 by Abbot, but that " the systematic names and definitions " were 

 supplied by Smith : it may be worth while to quote the passage in 

 which the division of labour is recorded : — 



'' The materials of the following work have been collected on 

 the spot by a faithful observer, Mr. John Abbot, many years resi- 

 dent in Georgia, who, after having previously studied the meta- 

 morphoses of English insects, pursued his enquiries among those 

 of Georgia and the neighbouring parts of North America. The 

 result of his observations he has delineated in a style of beauty and 

 accuracy which can scarcely be excelled, and has accompanied his 

 figures with an account, as well as a representation of the plants 

 on which each insect chiefly feeds, together with many circum- 

 stances of its manners, times of the different metamorphoses, and 

 other interesting particulars. For all such facts recorded in these 

 pages the public are entirely obliged to Mr. Abbot. His memo- 

 randums, not methodized by himself for pubhcation, have merely 

 been digested into some sort of style and order by the editor, who 

 has generally added remarks of his own, in a separate paragraph 

 and different type from the rest ; and who has entirely to answer 



