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to consider. Dr. Moss tells me that he had a reason for not 

 taking up Sahsbury's name, but he does not remember what it 

 was. It may be noted that there are stillborn names in Salix 

 (p. 393) and Populus (395) which are not quoted in the Camb. 

 Flora synonymy. 



QuERCus sEssiLiFLORA fp. 392). This is the first pubhcation of 

 this name ; Mr. Wilmott calls my attention to the fact that in 

 Sahsbury's reference — " Mart. Fl. Rust. n. 10, t. 11 et an t. 12 ? " 

 — the doubt should apply to the former rather than to the latter 

 plate. 



A few other notes made while going through the Prodrovius 

 may be added here. 



It is not easy to distinguish the names of collectors from whom 

 Salisbury himself received specimens from those cited in the books 

 which he quotes. It would seem, however, that among the former 

 were Eoger Shakespear (11. 1777-83), once referred to as Eobert, 

 Jamaica; Masson (1749-1800?), Cape; James Lee (1715-95), 

 Bourbon, Cape, and Australia ; R. Finlay, Jersey ; George Brooks, 

 Honduras ; and Benjamin Hussey, Falkland Islands (1737) : of 

 the three last I have no further information. Salisbury also 

 acknowledges help "ex Herbario amicissimi Smith" " (p. 57), and 

 from Banks: Conyza antlielmintica " inter numerosas stirpes est 

 quas amicissino Banks debeo, cui sat gratum omnium plane nun- 

 quam testari possum " (p. 194). He also speaks warmly of the 

 help he had received from Andre Thouin (1747-1824) ; under 

 Artedia squaviata (p. 161) he writes : " Inter alia rarissima dona 

 celeberrimi Thouin cujus in me benevolentiam hie reticere 

 nequeo." Salisbury probably made Thouin 's acquaintance when 

 in Paris in 1786, in which year he went to visit his patron Miss 

 Anna Salisbury,! who was living at Montpelier ; in the Frodromus 

 he mentions having in this year collected plants there and in Lan- 

 guedoc. He also gives localities for four English plants : Ceras- 

 tium arvense (" prope Wentbridge [Yorks] coUibus calcareis abunde 

 legi," p. 300) ; Geranium sanguineum and Pimpinella dioica 

 {Trinia glauca) near Bristol ; and Cineraria integrifolia (" in 

 coUibus calcareis prope Stamford abunde legi," p. 200). There is 

 a pretty note on Veronica Chamcedrys : "In nostra insula, margines 

 viarum et sepium adulto vere fere ubique ornat, colore florum 

 j^theri sereno vix cedente, peramabilis planta " (p. 92). 



In view of the general neglect of the Frodronius, it may be well 

 to point out that it contains many critical notes and full descrip- 

 tions of species : as an example of the former may be instanced 

 that on Oxalis amhigua {stricta L.) of which he says " Confuderunt 



* At this period the relations between Smith and Sahsbury were still 

 cordial ; it was in the same year that the former named the genus Salisburia 

 " in honour of Richard Anthony Salisbury Esq.. of whose acuteness and inde- 

 fatigable zeal in the service of botany no testimony is necessary in this Society, 

 nor in any place which his writings have reached : " Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 331. 



t This is not the place to enter into Salisbury's domestic history ; material 

 for so doing, which is briefly summarised in Diet. Nat. Biogr. 1. 1(;'3, will be 

 found in the Banksian Correspondence in the Department of Botany, vol. x (2). 



