36 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
until 1804. It is evident that the manuscript of this was in 
an te Sipe state, and some of it even in print, when the earlier 
mes were issued. The delay is explained by Smith in his 
Heer to vol. i., but this has been very generally overlooked in 
this connection. It may be supplemented by an extract from a 
letter from Smith to Dryander, preserved in the Department 
otan 
“My "pabliniine White writes me word that on account of the 
ake e 
expressed in the preface, and thinks we may promise the re- 
mainder to be published this time twelvemonth. These 2 volumes 
go to the end of Syngenesia. I think it will be necessary to give 
an Index of the Genera in them. Would you advise an Index of 
English names? Ithink it may be spared, as it will be superseded 
(as well as the Index of the Genera) by a complete Index at the 
end of the fourth volume, but this is a point on which I beg your 
advice. . . . As to title, I think Flora Britannica will be simplest 
his reasons for the continued delay (Sm. Corr. i. 452). The volume 
eventually appeared about March, 1804, but will be found quoted 
in English Botany four years previously. Bearing the above 
conclusion, it may be pointed out that the late Dr. Reynolds 
Green, in his account of Smith in the Bg History of 
Botany in the United Kingdom (pp. 255, 257) published in 
seen confuses this work with the English Flora, a much 
ater 
Be. G,. Wr 
(Department of hrs British Museum.) 
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