10 FERNS I BEITTSH AND FOREIGN. 



not tlie earliest, collector sent out from Kew, and who 

 succeeded in introducing large numbers of Cape Pro- 

 teacece and Ericaceae, sent home several Ferns from 

 the Cape of Good Hope and Madeira. This collector 

 proceeded to the Cape in 1774, and came home by 

 way of Madeira about the year 1778, returning again 

 in 1786, and remaining at the Cape during the nine 

 following years. Early in the present century Mr. 

 Afesader Caley, who was originally a horse-doctor, 

 residing near Birmingham, but acquired a love for 

 plants through collecting h.erbs, was sent out by 

 Sir Joseph Banks to New South Wales, and to him 

 we owe Platy cerium alcicorne, Doodia aspera, and 

 Davallia pyxidata, the first introductions from Aus- 

 tralia, received about the year 1808. The next col- 

 lectors to whom the garden was indebted for Ferns, 

 are the Messrs. Allan Cunningham and James 

 Bowie. They left Kew in 1814, on a botanical 

 expedition to Brazil, where they remained exploring 

 the country and sending home large collections till 

 1816, when the former proceeded to New South Wales, 

 and the latter to the Cape of Good Hope. No living 

 Ferns appear to have resulted from the Brazilian ex- 

 pedition ; but several Australian species and one or 

 two from Norfolk Island were received from Mr. 

 Cunningham, and two or three from Mr. Bowie from 

 the Cape. 



Several other collectors were employed in the ser- 

 vice of these gardens, when under the Directorship of 

 Mr. Aiton, such as Messrs. Barclay and Armstrong ; 

 but I can trace no Ferns to them, nor, with certainty, 

 to David Lockhart, a gardener from Kew, who accom- 

 panied the ill-fated expedition of Captain Tuckey up 



