352 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
XLVII. — Smitn’s ‘EnenisH Fora.’ 
e generally accepted though erroneous impression that the 
Adena. edition was merely a reprint doubtless accounts for the 
lack of any reference to it by such accurate bibliographers 
Pritzel and Jackson. In the Thesawrus (ed. 2, n. 8748) a detailed 
list is given of t ur volumes which ead the first peu 
in a ic sidke appended to his entry says, “Vols. i-iv .. . were ssued 
very shortly before [Smith’s] death a this state ment, pace wove 
y Sir Thomas ee Cullum, to whom the wor is dedicated 
(Sm. Corr. i. 512); the third in 1825, and the fourth in March, 
1828. These four volumes contain the flowering plants and ferns. 
Smith had himself contemplated bringing his work to a conclusion 
with a volume on the cellular cryptogams, but Hooker, i in the 
preface to = y., remarks: “He was arrested by the hand of 
death . very day [17 March, 1828] he received from 
~ ‘printer the last sheet of the ivth. volume.” At the end of . 
vy. (p. 346) is the following note:—‘The numerous ta very 
Mario additions, received by the author during its ee ss, and 
announced at the end of the 23rd Class [pp. 262-74] ven eee = 
him to think the subject is far from exhausted, and to look for 
still more discoveries = a bia future volumes hace they 
may appear.” This note also ars in the second edition (iv. 
p- 334), regardless of ihe fact that these additions and corrections 
are therein embo — the text, and sya the most impor- 
tant differences fro the € previous editio 
The poblieation + of a second edition we begun the same year, 
volumes i. and ii. being issued; the third appeared i in 1829, the 
fourth in 1830. The text of these volumes is almost identical 
with that of the first editio on, but the intercalation of the ‘‘ Cor- 
rections and Additions” somewhat alters the pagination; “a few 
habitats which have been added to this edition are inclosed in 
brackets ” (iii. p. viii; note signed “R. T.,” doubtless Richard 
Taylor, the printer). In compliance with the wish of the publishers 
the completion of the work was undertaken by W. J. Hooker, an nd 
