v. B. WITTROCK. ICONOTHECA BOTANICA BERGIAKA II. LIII 



Storbritannien och Irland. 



Joseph Dalton Hooker, (tafl. 74), född 1817. Forskningsresande i stor 

 stil (Nya Zeeland, Tasmanien och Antarktiska trakter, 4 år; Himalaya, Tibet 

 etc, 4 år; Syrien och Palestina; Marokko och Stora Atlas; Nordamerika, Rocky 

 Mountains) samt reseskildrare '). Florist i allra största skala ^). Utvecklings- 

 historisk växtgeograf, företrädesvis behandlande de isolerade pelagiska öarnes 

 växtvärld'). Fanerogam-monograf ''). Ikonograf af främsta rang ''). Framstående 

 generell systematiker ''). Chef i 20 år för den stora botaniska institutionen i 

 Kew (»The Royal Gardens»). 



•) /. D. Hooker. Himalayan Journals; or Notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and 

 Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains etc. With maps and illustrations. 2 vol. London 1854. 

 8:0. — /. D. Hooker and /. Bali. Tour in Marocco and Great Atlas. London 1879. 8:0. 



'^) /. D. Hooker- Flora antarotica. 2 parts. 198 coloured plates. London 1844 — 47. 4:o. 

 (The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 

 1839 — 43, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.) — Flora Novse Zelandise. 2 

 parts. 130 col. pl. London 1853 — 55. 4:o. (L. c.) — Flora Tasmanise. 2 parts. 2CiOcol.pl. Lon- 

 don 1860. 4:o. (L. c.) — Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the 

 native plants of New Zealand and the Chatam, Kermadec's, Lord Aucklands, Campbell's and 

 Macquarries Islands. London 1867. 8:0. — The Students Flora of the British Islands. London 

 1870. 8:0. Ed. IL 1878. — The Flora of British India. 7 vol. London 1875—97. 8:0. 



"The Flora of British India" är det i afseende på artantal mest omfattande af alla fullständigt 

 utkomna floristiska verk. I detsamma beskrifvas ej mindre än 14,300 arter. Till jämförelse må 

 nämnas, att G. Bentham i sin "Flora australiensis" behandlar omkr. 7,000 arter och E Boissier 

 uti "Flora Orientalis" 11,681. 



'J /. D. Hooker. Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of 

 the new species. (The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. XX. 1851. 4:o.) — 

 On the vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other tropical 

 Islands and of the continent of America (L. c.) — On the origination and distribution of species. 

 Introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. (Silliman Journ. XXIX 1860.) — Illustrations of 

 the Floras of the Malayan Archipelago and of Tropical Africa. (Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 1862. 

 4:o\ — Outlines of the distribution of Arctic plants. (L. c.^. — Considérations sur les flores 

 insulaires. (Annales des Sciences naturelles. Botanique. VL Paris 1866. 8;o.) — Observations 

 on the Botany of Kerguelen Island. (The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 

 168. Extra vol. London 1879. 4:o.) — Enumeration of the plants hitherto coUected in Kerguelen 

 by the "Antarctic", "Challenger", and "British Transit of Venus" Expeditions. I. Flowering Plants, 

 Ferns, Lycopodiacete and Characese. 2 plates. (L. c.) 



■*) /. D. Hooker. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya; being an account, botanical, and 

 geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, 

 from drawings and descriptions made on the spöt, during a government botanical mission to that 

 country. Edited by Sir William Hooker. 30 col. pl. London 1849—51. Fol. — On WelwitSchia, 

 a new genus of Gnetacea;. [1862] 14 pl. (Transact. Linn. Soc. XXIV. London 1864. 4:o.) — 

 Cytinacese & Nepenthacete {de Cattdolle. Prodromus system, natur. regn. veget. XVII. 1873. 8:0.) 

 — RosaceEe {Marta Flora Brasiliensis. Fol.). 



*) J. D. Hooker. Illustrations of- the Himalayan plants, chiefly selected from drawings made 

 for the late /. F. Cat/icart Esq , of the Bengal Civil Service. 24 col. pl. London 1855. Fol. — 

 Icones plantarum. 3:d series. KM pl. London 1867 — 71. 8:0. — Curtis's Botanical Maga- 

 zine. Vol. 91, tab. 5486— vol. 130, tab. 7991. London 1865—1904. 8:0; tabulis stepius forma 

 multo majore. 



'^) G. Bentham et /. D. Hooker. Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis 

 Kewensibus servata definita. 3 vol. London 1862 — 83. 8:0. 



