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Wales ; being a co-type and part of the original gathering from 

 which Sir James E. Smith's description was taken, vide Sprenge.lia 

 in "Rees' Cyclopaedia," 181 9, where the following remarks 

 occur : — 



" Sprengelia, named by the writer of this article,* in honour 

 " of Mr. Christian Conrad Sprengel, Master of a Grammar School 

 " at Spandow, in Brandenburgh, who published at Berlin, in 1 793, 

 " a most ingenious work on the manner in which insects promote 

 " the impregnation of plants. This fact is illustrated by several 

 " hundred particular examples, accompanied by figures of each. 

 " Dr. Curtius Sprengel, now Professor of Botany at Halle, may 

 " also claim his share of botanical commemoration in the above 

 " name." 



The specimen now before us is thrice labelled, all in Sir J. E. 

 Smith's handwriting, the principal and central one running as 



follows : — 



" Sprengelia incarnata. 

 Given to Mr. Wilson. 



— Lambert. 



— Forster. 



" Christian Conrad Sprengel, Master of a Grammar School 

 at Spandow in Brandenburgh: Book published at Berlin, 1793." 



The second ticket gives the name again, " Sprengelia 

 '•'' incarnata, Smith in Stockholm Transactions for 1794: 

 " Monogynia. New South Wales." 



The third, a descriptive label, is thus written : — 

 " Caps 5 loc. 5 valv. 



"Dissep. e medio valvularum semina plurima subrotunda. 

 " Cal. 5. phyllus, persistens. Cir. rotata. Stam. 5, 

 " antheris connatis. Syng. Monogamia. Laid iji" 

 This last specimen is only one of a large number of Aus- 

 tralian plants in the collection, all being co-types with the 

 examples in Smith's Herbarium at the Linnean Society's Rooms, 

 Burlington House, Mr. B. Daydon Jackson having himself 

 compared some of them, at my request. 



*Sm. Tracts 272, f. 2 (1798). Sm. in Vet, Acad. Handl. Stockholm, 

 1794, 260. 



