APPENDIX. 



SIR HANS SLOANE'S LIST OF PLANTS. 



The following list of some of the plants of Madeira is 

 curious, as being one of the earliest notices of the botany of 

 the island. It was drawn up by Sir Hans Sloane during his 

 Adsit to Madeira in 1687 *. In an inner margin of the page 

 are given the Linnsean names, which I found in some mar- 

 ginal pencil notes to an old edition of Sir Hans Sloane's 

 works in the library of West Dean House, Sussex : they 

 are evidently the work of no mean botanist. To these a 

 few corrections are added in brackets, by the Rev. Mr. 

 Lowe, from whose scientific skill and intimate acquaintance 

 with the Flora and Sylva of the island a more accurate ac- 

 count of its botanical products may hereafter be looked for. 



" Oleastre species ut quiclam put ant, ut alii Zizyplms alba. 

 Gesn. hort. Germ.fol. 269. Olea Sylvestris folio molli in- 

 cano, C. B., Pin. p. 472. 



" Elegans angustifolia. Linn. Sp. pi. 774. 



* Voyage to Jamaica, vol. i. p. 7, edit. 1707. 



