34 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Leonard Cockayne, that we owe - ce . the plant eri 
of the islands, while Mr. Cheeseman, Curat d 
useum, and withal a great sairasiley on Bact lore, has rou 
an unrivalled kno wledge to the ee of his excellent 
Manual of the New Zealand Flora 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
LVIII.—Smiru’s ‘ Ftora Britannica.’ 
Smith “that the nomenclature of our whole flora stood in need of 
revision,” and suggested to him the advisability of preparing an 
entirely new work on the subject. few years later Smith w 
contributing anion jmously to our rg of British plants 
through his descriptions in English 
The important position which that work was destined to 
occupy was not dreamt of at its inception. It “ owed its origin 
to a number of pe plants made by James Sowerby, to be 
introduced in the foregrounds of landscapes’; these he was 
induced by various sereearen friends to issue as plates. Smith 
undertook to write the text for.them, and thus began his most 
andieing work (Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 304). But its dis- 
advantages, consequent upon the haphazard selection of ‘the 
subjects depicted, aad the length of time its ultimate completion 
presumed, were not forgotten by Smith, who aimed at a systematic 
flor Latin. In claiming authorship of rH gee Botany he 
informs us that the Flora Britannica “ which has long been 
was then preparing (HE. B. iv. p. ii. 1795). It was 
not until 1800, however, that the first two volumes were published 
in London, and a further four years elapsed before vol. 3 was 
given to the world. The work concludes with the Musci; a 
wa 
isetiad y J. J. Romer at a Suvioh in 1804-05 ; additional stations 
for many of the species are given in this, chiefly on the authority 
of L. W. Dillwyn’s Sneed of Sree more rare plants found in 
the ide of Dover’ in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi: 177-184 (1802). 
epitome of the first t two volumes was issued in London in 
1800 under the title Compendium Flore Britannice ; bg was 
F. 
offmann, and published at Erlangen in 1801. a. Tanlish 
edition by J. Galpine, which continued the enumeration of the 
species in the parent work to the end of the fowering plants, was 
