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There is a valuable account of his life in Journ. Bot., VII., 5 (18G9), 

 from the pen of J. G. Baker, of Kew. See also "Mennell," p. 21 ; 

 Britten and Boulger (c), p. 8. 



Hooker dedicated the Australian myrtaceous aenus Backhousia 

 to him, while the following species were called after him : — 



Correa Backhousiana, Hook. = C. speciosa. Ait., var., Backhousiana ; 

 Helichrysum Backhousii, F. v. M. ; Ozothamnus Backhousii, Hook. f. = 

 Helichrysum Backhousii, F. v. M. ; Wilsonia Backhousii, Hook. f. ; 

 Beyeria Backhousii, Hook. f. = B. opaca, F. v. M. ; Octoclinis Back- 

 housii, Hill = ? ; Blandfordia Backhousii, Lindl. = B. niarginata, Herb. 



Baxter, William, was in Kangaroo Island in 182-3, and there 

 is a plate of Correa pulchella in Sweet's " Flora Australasica " grown in 

 1824 from his seed. This is the only part of South Australia he visited. 

 There is no doubt the Eucalyptus santalifolia, var. (?) Baxteri, Benth. 

 (B. FL, iii., 207) was collected by him in Kangaroo Island. He was 

 a well-known collector, and collected for the Sydney Botanic Garden 

 and also for private firms. His collections of West Australian plants 

 are best known, and therefore I propose to reserve biographical details 

 of him for ni}^ list of Western Australian botanists. 



Behr, Hermann H. — A medical man, long resident in South Aus- 

 tralia. He collected many plants, especially in the fourth and fifth 

 decades of the nineteenth century. He described plants with Mueller 

 and Miquel {e.g.. Eucalyptus odorata), but as a rule his plants were 

 described by Schlechtendal, in Linnea, and by Mueller. 



He contributed a paper on the character of the South Australian 

 flora to vol. XX. of Linnea. See p. 180. 



He left for California, and in 1884 published a " Synopsis of the 

 Genera of Vascular Plants of San Francisco." (8vo., San Francisco.) 



He died a few years ago. 



The following species were named after him, and offer clues to the 

 collections and collecting places of a worthy South Australian citizen, 

 of whom few biographical details appear to be available : — 



Abutilon Behrianuin. F. v. M. = ^. Avicennae. Gaertn. ; Cryp- 

 tandra Behriana, Reiss. =^ C. tomentosa, Lindl. ; Lasiopetalum Behrii, 

 F. V. M. ; Lavatera Behriana. Schlecht. = L. plebeia, Sims ; Malva 

 Behriana, Schlecht. = Lavatera vleheia, Sims ; Trymalium Behrii, 

 Reiss. = Spyridium suhochreatum, Reissck ; Aciena Behriana, Schlecht. 

 = A. ovina, A. Cunn. ; Loudonia Behrii, Schlecht. ; Argyrophanes 

 Behrii, Schlecht. = Helichrysum Baxteri', A. Cunn. ; Aster Behrii, 

 Schlecht. = Vittadinia australis, A. Rich. ; Baeckea Behrii, F. v. M. ; 

 Calythrix Behriana, Schlecht. = C. tetradonta, Lahill. : Camphor omyrtus 

 Behrii, Schlecht. = Baeckea Behrii, F. v. M. ; Chrysocephalum Behrianum 

 Sond. = Helichrysum Baxteri, A. Cunn. : Eriochlamys Behrii, Sond. 

 and Muell. ; Eucahi plus Behriana, F. v. M. ; Senecio Behtianus, Sond. 

 et F. V. M. ; Halgania Behriana, F. v. M. = H. littoralis. Gaud. var. 



(c) Britten, James, and Boulger, G. S. " A Biographical Index of British and 

 Irish Botanists." (1893.; 



