THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXill 
348), first named and figured by Aiton in the Hortus 
Kewensis, was introduced from its distant home in the Falk- 
lands in 1777 by Dr. Fothergill. 
he figures in the remaining volumes (xi.—xiv.) of this 
period are mostly of hardy and Cape plants: the latter 
including many bulbous kinds belonging to the genera Ixia, 
Antholyza, Gladiolus, &c. Among the still rare Australian 
plants I may name Platylobium formosum (pl. 469) and 
Pultenea stipularis (pl. 475) ; the latter genus dedicated to 
the historian of botany in England. 
A few other figures in these volumes merit a word or two, 
notably those of Achimenes coccinea (pl. 374—Cyrilla 
pulchella) and Cineraria cruenta (pl. 406), the parent of 
the marvellous variety of Cinerarias of successive generations 
of florists. Cymbidium aloifolium (pl. 387—Epidendrum), 
flowered by Grimwood and Wykes, nurserymen of Kensing- 
ton; and Hpidendrum cuspidatum (pl. 463, as E. ciliare), 
are the only additional epiphytal Orchids. 
I had almost forgotten to mention that the tenth volume 
contains an alphabetical index to that and the previous 
volumes ; a classified index to hardy trees, shrubs, herba- 
ceous perennials, biennials and annuals; an index to the 
greenhouse plants; an index to the stove plants, and an 
index arranged according to the Linnean system. 
There was a re-issue of some of the earlier volumes with 
arb dated title- site Thus; vol. i, 1798 5 1.5:1. 796; 
, £7973. iv., 1795 ; v., 1796, and vi, 1793 
Kinprep Eneuish LiterRATURE FROM 1787 To 1800, 
This is considerable, and in no other country was 
there so much activity in flower gardening. In Austria 
alone, judging from the admirably illustrated works of 
the younger Jacquin, was there anything approaching it. 
The first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, edited by William 
Aiton, is dated 1782,’ and, as already observed, it is a 
most valuable contribution to the history of the intro- 
duction of exotic plants in the gardens of England. In 
1789 to 1791 appeared James Sowerby’s Flora Luaeurians, 
or Florists Delight, a folio work, illustrated with coloured 
plates, which I have not seen, but which reached only 
* I may mention that there is an earlier Hortus Kewensis, compiled by 
John Hill, M.D., an exceedingly fertile bookmaker of the eighteenth 
ree The first edition was published in 1768, and this wasfollowed 
by a second in 1769, containing twenty coloured plates. Pritzel 
Lbiraeins us Literature Botanice) by a slip states ree = first edition 
ontains plates, and the second therefore ‘‘ minime 
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