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Fighteenth Century Records 
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British Plants. 
JOHN Hope, W.S., of Moray Place, Edinburgh, who died 
in 1895, bequeathed to the Royal Botanic Garden a number of 
botanical books, papers, and drawings which had belonged to 
his grandfather, John Hope, who was Regius Keeper of the 
Garden from 1760-1786. 
Amongst the manuscripts are two small note-books the 
contents of which are worthy of preservation in the pages of 
these “ Notes.” 
One of these contains a number of records, of date 1764 and 
1765, of stations for plants about Edinburgh and in other parts of 
Scotland. The fly-leaf at the beginning of the book bears, in 
Dr. Hope’s writing, “ List of plants growing in the neighbourhood 
of Edinburgh, collected, in flower, 1765, as a sketch of the Calen- 
darium Florae of Edinburgh.” The writing of the manuscript 
is not that of Dr. Hope, and internal evidence seems to show 
that he was not the compiler of the list, but it is manifest that 
he had looked through it, interpolated stations, and pointed out 
doubtful records. 
Upon the first page there is the heading, “ A list of plants as 
they were collected and prepared during the year 1764, with ye 
place of growth.” Dr. Hope has interpolated the words “in 
flower” after “ plants” in the heading—an expression we must 
accept in its widest signification as used by botanists in the 
eighteenth century, and as referring to the sporiferous condition 
of Thallophytes as well as to the flowers of Spermophytes. The 
list continues in calendar form from March 1764 until January 
1765, when a couple of pages are blank; and the calendar 
(Notes, R.B.G., Edin., No. XVIIL, August 1907-] 
