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THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF THE VARIOUS 
PARTS OF CURTIS’S ‘FLORA LONDINENSIS.’ 
By B. Daypon Jacxson, Sec. L.S. 
In the following remarks I can claim little merit but editorial, 
the entire working out of the subject—one of the last on which he 
was engaged—having been accomplished by our deceased friend 
Alfred Reginald Pryor.* 
The issue of Curtis’s ‘ Flora Londinensis’ was long protracted ; 
the parts were issued at uncertain intervals, sometimes very wi 
apart ; the work did not pay its expenses, and its progress was 
compared to a funeral. I tried some time ago to discover the 
order in which the plates were issued, only the later plates Lape 
mar. 
th the order indicated in the index to each fasciculus of 
twelve numbers, a plan which, however good when the Linnean 
system was inant, is awkward at the present time, the more so 
by an ingenious and painstaking elaboration of all the references 
to Curtis, which are extant in the following contemporaneous 
Floras :— 
Lightfoot’s ‘Flora Scotica,’ 1777. ca 
Withering’s ‘ Botanical Arrangement of British Plants,’ ed. 2, 
1787-92. References by Dr. Stokes. Much used. wie 
Sibthorp’s ‘ Flora Oxoniensis,’ 1794. Next to the preceding in 
usefulness. 
Relhan’s ‘Flora Cantabrigiensis,’ 1785. Not much used, no 
specific references being given by the author. 
Hudson’s ‘Flora Anglica,’ ed. 2, 1778, does not cite Curtis, 
owing to some feud between the two authors ; the absence of citation 
is emphasised by Lightfoot’s Flora being extensively quoted, itself 
published after the completion of the first fasciculus of the ‘ Flora 
ondinensis.’ 
From these chief sources, with an occasional reference to others 
for single points, a full list was drawn up by Mr. Pryor, who had 
intended to summarise its contents for publication. But before he 
could do so he was taken from us; and his list, from which the 
following summary has been drawn, has been placed in my hands 
for that purpose by the Editor of this Journal. 
* He is better known as a correspondent of this Journal under the name of 
Reginald A. Pryor, an inversion adopted to prevent confusion of himself and his 
father, both possessing the same names. 
