XXVi THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
and additional remarks ; and an arrangement of the plants 
according to the Linnean system. It is important to note 
the existence of these corrections and additions. <A portrait 
of William Curtis was given with the nineteenth or 
twentieth volume, and repeated in the forty-first or forty- 
second—which, I cannot say, because two volumes are 
bound in one, and the portrait is placed at the head; yet it 
is probable that in each case it was issued with the index 
volume. The first series of the magazine terminates with 
volume xlii. (1815), in which is an alphabetical index to the 
whole series, including many corrections and modifications. 
Kxcluding the bulbous plants—and they are so numerous, 
and many of them so beautiful, that it is impossible to make 
a choice—there are few exceptionally noteworthy subjects in 
the early volumes of that period. The handsome Spar- 
mannia africana (pl. 516) commemorates one of the botanists 
of Cook’s second voyage. Phlox ovata (pl. 528) is one 
of the parents of the beautiful race of garden varieties 
of this genus. Pl. 532 represents the gorgeously brilliant, 
though very evanescent, Tigridia Pavonia, a Mexican plant, 
which had been known to Europeans for nearly 150 years 
through the description and figures in the works of 
Francisco Hernandez, but flowered for the first time in 
this country in the garden of Ellis Hodgson, at Everton, 
near Liverpool, in 1796. 
Epidendrum cucullatum (Brassavola), pl. 543, flowered in 
the stove of Edward Woodford, of Vauxhall, adds one more 
to the small number of epiphytes up to that time success- 
fully cultivated in this country. From the same garden 
came the singular Massonia muricata (pl. 559), introduced 
by the very successful collector of living plants whose name 
it bears. As already mentioned, two-thirds of the figures 
in the sixteenth volume are of bulbous plants. In the four 
succeeding volumes they constitute about a half, and after 
this date (1804) their numerical proportion is smaller. 
Again Mr. Woodford contributes a novelty in Spathiphyl- 
lum cannefolium (pl. 603), which he had received from 
Mr. Alexander Anderson, superintendent of the Botanic 
Garden in the island of St. Vincent. Then he follows with 
Kpidendrum elongatum (pl. 611). Whitley & Brames, 
nurserymen, of Brompton, contribute Pterospermum aceri- 
folium (pl. 620), and Woodford the beautiful Petrea 
volubilis (pl. 628). How little was known of Rhododen- 
drons at the beginning of the century may be gathered from 
the fact that the ordinary R. ponticum found a place in the 
same volume. Soon several species of Amaryllis appear ; 
