Biographical Notice of H, G. Florke. 197 



The two following species will be fully described in the third 

 volume of the ' Contributions to Botany :' — 



1. Hcematocarpus Thomsoni, nob.; — Fibraurea hsematocarpa, 



Hook. ^ Th. FL Ind. i. 201;— In Khasya et Sikhini : v.s. 



in herb. Hook, (^ et ? . 

 2. comptus, nob. ; — Baterium validum, nob. I. c. p. 124. — 



In Khasya : v, s. in herb. Hook. ^ y Khasya (Griffiths^ Hook. 



& Th.). 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIV. — NotuldB Lichenologica, No. XIII. 

 By the Rev. W. A. Leighton, B.A., F.L.S. 



Biographical Notice of H. G. Fldrke, hj U Abbe Eugene Coemans, 



Heinrich Gustav Florke was born December 24, 1764, at 

 Altenkalden, a small village of the grand-duchy of Mecklen- 

 burg, where his father was at that time Lutheran Minister. 

 His mother was also the daughter of a protestant pastor, named 

 Schmidt. 



Florke lost his mother whilst he was very young, without 

 having had the good fortune to know her; and his father 

 remarried some months afterwards for the interest of his young 

 family. This second union was happy, and introduced no 

 changes into the peaceful and retired habits of the family. 



The Florke family was very numerous, and possessed of little 

 wealth, and were followers of the severe doctrines of the sect of 

 mystic pietists of Dargung. 



At the age of four years the young Florke quitted his native 

 village, with his parents, and went to dwell at Butzow, where his 

 father was nominated Propositus, i. e. Pastor-Inspector. This 

 was where he received his first education. 



The school of the town, which he attended, was at that time 

 in a most unsatisfactory state. The master of the school, named 

 Thube, did not comprise in his scholastic system the moral 

 education of youth, but treated his pupils as a flock of sheep, 

 which it was his sole business to keep in order, and entertained 

 them with Jewish antiquities and ridiculous reveries instead of 

 instructing them in religion and grammar. 



Florke remained three years in this miserable school, without 

 having learned anything, and quitted it, in 1775, to go to the 

 humble college of the little town where his parents dwelt. 



Afterwards he entered the University of Butzow, then in ex- 

 istence, and during some years attended the theological lectures. 

 Young Florke, who was very diligent, and never negligent of 



