38 Mr. Brown, on the Pi'oteacea of Jussieu. 



1735; no generic characters are there given, but from the re- 

 ferences to Boerhaave's figures it is evident that the genus is to 

 be understood in the same extensive sense which he at length 

 gave it in the second Mantissa. In 173? appeared the Genera 

 Phmtaruin, and in it for the first time the natural generic cha- 

 racter of Vrotea : as in this work he only cites Lepidocarpodendron 

 and Ihjpophyllocarpodendron of Boerhaave, it follows that here 

 the genus is more limited, though its character is not peculiarly 

 applicable to either of Boerhaave's genera referred to ; and 

 the description of antherse and germen is not reconcilable to 

 any plant whatever of the family. In the same year Hortus 

 Clitfortianus was published, in which he resumes his first opinion 

 of Protea, reducing to it all Boerhaave's genera, but referring 

 lo the character given in his own Genera Plantarum. It does 

 not appear on what ground this change of opinion was formed : 

 for in Clitford's garden, according to Viridarium Cliffortianum, 

 there had only been two species, Protea argentea and saligna, 

 neither of which had flowered, and the former was already lost; 

 while in his Herbarium, now in the collection of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, the specimens of all the three species given in the body 

 of the work are without fructification, and of Protea racemosa 

 added in the appendix there is no specimen whatever. 



If LinniEus is to be considered in a great degree the author of 

 the Prodromus Florae Leydensis, published by A. Van Royen ia 

 1740, as has been asserted by some of his pupils, and may be 

 inferred from a passage in his Diary published by Dr. Maton, 

 it must be noticed as his next work in the order of time ; for 

 from the same Diary it appears that he could only have been 

 employed in its composition in 1738. In this work the genus 

 Protea is given in the same extensive sense as in Hortus Cliffor- 

 tianus, and no fewer tiian 21 species are characterized, of which 



however 



