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but nothing of the Flora, except the figures, was 
prepared, nor any botanical characters or descrip- 
tions whatever. The final determination of the 
species, the distinctions of such as were new, and 
all critical remarks, have fallen to the lot of the 
Editor, who has also revised the references to Dio- 
scorides, and, with Mr. Hawkins’s help, corrected 
the modern Greek names.” 
Sir James lived to complete six of these volumes, 
and half the seventh, which has been published 
since his death by his distinguished friend Mr. Ro- 
bert Brown. 
The Flora Greca was a work, in the compilation 
of which Sir James had peculiar pleasure. Those 
who have seen the thousand beautiful delineations 
of the flowers of that country, by the hand of Mr. 
Ferdinand Bauer, may conceive it was no dull em- 
ployment: it was a work of relaxation, to which he 
returned with impatience after any pause in its pro- 
gress. It was agreeable to him to observe that 
many of the plants of that beautiful and classic land 
were the same as the most admired offspring of 
Flora in our own. The white lily was at all times 
his admiration; and he was charmed with disco- 
vering that its native bed and choice habitation 
is in the vale of Tempe. “The violet and prim- 
rose, Sir James tells us, “enamel the plains of 
Arcadia, and the (arcissus Tazetta, which Dr. 
Sibthorp was disposed to think the true poetic 
Narcissus, decorated in profusion the banks of the 
Alpheus. The barbarian horde under whose escort 
they were obliged to travel, had taste enough to 
collect nosegays of these flowers. The oaks of the 
