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religious character, and a later list of plants which he found 

 is given in Robinson's 'Natural History of Westmoreland and 

 Cumberland,' 1709. Linnreus dedicated to his memory the 

 genus Lawsoiiia, of which the well-known Oriental Henna is 

 the type ; and Villars named after him Hie?-aciu?n Latvsoni. 



1695. Gibson's edition of Camden's 'Britannia' contains 

 plant-catalogues drawn up by Ray, for Westmoreland at pp. 

 8 1 7 and 846, for Cumberland at p. 846. They are founded 

 mainly on Lawson's notes. In Gough's edition, 1789, the 

 Westmoreland catalogue will be found in vol. iii. p. 164, and 

 that for Cumberland in vol. iii. p. 206. 



1744. Wilson, John. ' A Synopsis of British Plants in Mr. 

 Ray's Method,' 8vo, Newcastle-on-Tyne, contains a trust- 

 worthy record of a large number of new localities. Wilson 

 was a man in humble circumstances, a stocking-maker, or, 

 another account says, a shoemaker, at Kendal. He became 

 enthusiastically interested in plants, and educated himself to 

 such purpose that he wrote a capital book. There is a good 

 story about him in Pulteney's ' Sketches,' of how he was once 

 sorely tempted to sell his only cow to buy a copy of 

 Morison's ' Historia Plantarum,' and how a benevolent lady 

 intervened and made him a present of it. In later life he 

 became a teacher of botany, and removed to Newcastle, where 

 his book was published. To Lavvson and Wilson we look as 

 tlie fathers of Lakeland botany. Robert Brown named in 

 \Vilson's memory the genus Wilsonia in Convohulacece. 



1762. Hudson, William, born at Kendal 1730, died in 

 London 1793, was the author of the first original flora of 

 England in which the binomial nomenclature as invented by 

 Linnaeus was applied, and consequently he was the first to give 

 to a great many English plants the scientific names by which 

 they are now known. The first edition of his ' Flora Anglica ' 

 was published in 1762, the second in 1778. He practised for 

 many years as an apothecary in London in Panton Street. 

 In the winter of 1783 his house and all his collections and 



