PROGRESS OF BOTANICAL INVESTIGATION. XXIX 



sequently contributed the lists of Devon and Cornwall plants to Bishop 

 Gibson's Camden's Britanoiia, the first edition of which appeared in 1695 ; 

 but these lists contain nothing new concernmg Plymouth botany. 



Hudson's Flora Awjlica, 1762; ed. 2, 1778, &c. ; and the Lists of 

 Devon and Cornwall plants in Gough's Camden's Britannia, 1789, give 

 very few stations belonging to Plymouth. Those that do will be found 

 quoted under the species to which they respectively relate. 



In the year 1797 the Rev. Richard Polwhele brought out the first 

 volume of his History of Devonshire, after the second had been issued. 

 Particulars concerning the botanical productions of the county occupy 

 pages 82-100 of vol. i. Among this large amount of matter there are 

 few records connected with Plymouth, so that only a little over a dozen 

 references to the work will be found in this Flora. This is the more 

 surprising from the fact that a Mr. Yonge, a member of the ancient 

 family seated at Puslinch, within the area, contributed some of the in- 

 formation. Turner and Dillwyn are greatly indebted to Polwhele for the 

 plant stations they give under Devon in their Botanist's Guide, 1805. 



Gough's Camden, ed. 2, 1806 ; Polwhele's History of Cormvall, vol. 

 iv., 1806 ; the Lysons' Cornwall, 1814, and Devonshire, 1822, each supply 

 a few additional notes concerning the botany of Plymouth. 



In 1820 the Rev. John Pike Jones, Curate of North Bovey, Devon, 

 published a small work entitled, A Botanical Tour through various 

 parts of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall. In the course of the 

 tour he, in company with Mr. George Anderson, f.l.s., visited Plymouth, 

 but recorded little concerning the botany of the locality, being, to use 

 his own words, "too much engaged m inspecting the numerous in- 

 teresting objects in the immediate neighbourhood to undertake any 

 botanical excursions." A second edition was issued in 1821, but without 

 any additional matter. 



In 1829 Jones, in conjunction with J. F. Kingston, published the 

 Flora Devoniensis, an important work, of great excellence considering 

 the time at which it appeared. It is still of value to all interested in the 

 botany of the county. It did not, however, add much to the existing 

 knowledge of Plymouth species, being remarkably deficient in records of 

 stations for the neighbourhood of this town. Perhaps this led Mr. George 

 Banks, f.l.s., a silversmith and engraver of Devonport, to begin in the 

 following year the publication of The Plymouth and Devonjjort Flora. 

 It appeared m monthly parts at one sliilling each, but ceased after only 

 eight had been issued, containing particulars respectuig sLxty-two plants, 

 inclusive of two or three garden ones that the author injudiciously 

 admitted. This work has a number of local stations of plants, at many 

 of which the species still gi'ow, and numerous references to it will be met 

 with in the pages of this Flora. A laudatory notice of it from Sir William 

 J. Hooker appears in the preface to ed. 3 of the British Flora. 



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