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octavo A'ohimes of nearly 600 pages eacli, with plates. It was issued in form of periodical 

 parts, each part coutaiuing a number of memoirs, followed by " Miscellaneous Articles," 

 consisting of correspondence, botanical news, etc. This division of matter affords the 

 only key to distinguish the separate parts in the bound A^oluines. The first part (of Vol. 



I) probably appeared on May 1st, 1804, which is the publication date on the frontispiece 

 portrait of John Ray. The P]dinburgh Review for July, 1804, acknowledges receipt 

 of Annals of Botany, No. 1, price ts. 6d., in list of publications receiA^'d from April 18th 

 to July *7th, 1804. The third and last part of Vol. I contains an obituary notice of Prof. 

 Allioni of Turin, who died July, 28th 1804. The next part, the fourth (being first of Vol. 



II) is the one that contains Salisbury's paper. This fourth part is acknowledged in the 

 Edinl)urgli Review for July, 1805 ; it contains a letter from Dr. Smith (Sir J. E.), dated 

 Norwich, March 24th, 1805, and one from Dawson Turner, dated Yarmouth, May I7th, 

 1805, — a short communication not likely to have lain over long for publication. These 

 facts indicate that the part could not well have been issued before the end of May, or 

 later than the end of June, 1805. Thus, as nearly as can now be ascertained, Salisbury's 

 " Description of the Natural Order of Nymphœ'œ " was published in June, 1805.' In this 

 paper he divided the genus Ni/mphœa of Linnœus into three distinct genera, of which, 

 with some others that Linnccus had no knowledge of, he constituted the Natural Order 

 ''Nymphœ'œ,'' placing it between the orders Ranunculaceœ and Papaveraceœ of Jussieu. 

 His genera and species are as follows, the genus Cyamus being adopted from Smith : — 



Nymphspa umbilicalis, = Nymphnea lutea, Linn. 

 arifolia, = N. advena, Sims. 



sagittEcfolia, = N. longifolia, Michx. 

 Castalia pudica, = N. odorata, Kenn. 



sjieciosa, = N. alba, Linn. 



scutifolia, = N. cœrulea, Sinn. 



stellaris, = N. stellata, Kenn. 



Castalia ampla ^ N. fol. amplioribus, etc., Broivn, Jam. 



mystica = N. Lotus, &ims. 



edulis = N. Coteka, Roxb. MS. 



Euryale ferox. 



Hydropeltis pulla = Hydropeltis purpurea, Michx. 



^ , . ( Nymphaea Nelumbo, Linn. 



Cyamus mysticus, = / . . 



( JNelumbium speeiosum, Willd. 



flavicomus, = Nelumb. luteum, Michx. 



The following formed a list of " Species Dubife " : — N. lutea ji. Kalmiana, Mich. ; 

 N. pentapetala, "Walt ; N. Nelumbo, AValt ; N. reniformis, Walt. 



In the same year, as Mr. Britten informs us, Mr. William Hooker, a London artist 

 (whose memory is perp(4uated in the water-color called " Hooker's Cireen " ), published in 

 the Paradisus Londinensis the plate lettered Castalia magnifica, and dated October 1st, to 

 which Mr. Salisbury supplied the letterpress. 



' The explanation of the year 1806 appearing on the title page, is seen in the fact that the last part of the 

 volume, and final part of the work, was delayed, and could not have been issued until that year, for it contains a 

 letter dated Irkutzk, April 24, 180G, 



