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Scotica," brought out in 1821. The next year but one 

 brought the first of the three volumes of the " Exotic Flora," 

 containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise 

 interesting exotic plants, admirably delineated, chiefly from 

 those cultivated in the Glasgow and Edinburgh Botanic Gar- 

 dens. Here first is manifested the interest in the flora of our 

 own country, which has since identified the name of Hooker 

 with North American botany, a considerable number of our 

 choicest plants, especially of the Orchis family, having been 

 here illustrated by his pencil. 



The " Icones Filicum " (in which he was associated with 

 Dr. Greville), in two large folio volumes, with two hundred 

 and forty plates, begun in 1829 and finished in 1831, was his 

 introduction to the great family of Ferns, to which he in later 

 years devoted his chief attention. 



In 1830 began, with the " Botanical Miscellany," that se- 

 ries of periodical publications which, continued for almost 

 thirty years, stimulated the activity and facilitated the inter- 

 course of botanists in no ordinary degree. The " Miscellany," 

 in royal octavo, with many plates, closed with its third volume, 

 in 1833. The " Journal of Botany," a continuation of the 

 " Miscellany " in a cheaper form (in ordinary 8vo, issued 

 monthly), took its place in 1834, but was itself superseded 

 during the years 1835 and 1836 by the " Companion to the 

 Botanical Magazine " (2 vols. imp. 8vo). In 1840 (after an 

 interval in which the editor took charge of the botanical 

 portion of Taylor's "Annals of Natural History "), the Journal 

 was resumed and carried on to the fourth volume in 1842. 

 Then, changed in title and enlarged, it appears as the " Lon- 

 don Journal of Botany " for seven years, until 1848, and 

 finally, as the " Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscel- 

 lany," for nine years more, or to the close of 1857. The 

 whole was carried on entirely at the editor's cost, he furnish- 

 ing the MSS. for the letter-press, the drawings, etc., without 

 charge, " so that it may be supposed that his expenses were 

 heavy, while his profits were, as he always anticipated, liter- 

 ally nil." 



The plates of the Journal being too few to contain a tithe 



