R. BROWN’S LIST OF MADEIRA PLANTS 3 
announcing the sending of the plants, said that he thought this 
‘a new genus, but this matter I must submit to your better judg- 
ment”; subsequent authors, however, have confirmed Masson’s 
view, and the plant is now known as Musschia aurea. Other ann 
sie toae a by the younger petite in the Supplementum from sp 
mens sent by Masson are Sida carpinifolia, Campanula ( Wahlenbergia) 
lobelivides, Sonchus fruticosus, Carthamus (Carlina) salicifolius, Echium 
candicans, and Digitalis Sceptrum; it would appear from a letter of 
Masson to the younger Linneeus that the latter was at first inclined 
to réfer these to HE. argentewn and D. ee but that Masson 
maintained their af soso from these spec 
Masson left Madeira for the Wes e Eadie: in October, 1778, 
returning to Bapland is in 1781; in 1788 he went to Portugal, and 
thence to Madeira, returning home in 1785. We have in the 
Department of Botany a MS. list in Dryander’ shand, with notes by 
Solander, lettered ‘‘ Massonii Flora Maderensis’’; this is probably 
a transcript from a MS. by Masson; in it the species supposed to 
be new are indicated by an asterisk: a number of the plants are 
localized and have vernacular names. This is the basis of Brown’s 
mo in Buch’s work, which includes his own gatherings in the island 
on Aug 1802. 
It seems somewhat strange that Lowe, to whose constant con- 
sultation of the Banksian collections much of the elucidation of the 
plants mentioned by Buch is due, should have given no account of 
them in the introductory portion of his Flora of Madeira, The 
preliminary ‘‘ notice”’ of two pages was, however, probably intended 
to be merely temporary; had the author lived to complete his work, 
we should Jowheless have had a more sufficient introduction. In the 
preface to his Primitie Flor @ Madere (1881), he thus “EE to these 
sources of info rmation: ‘Cl. Rob. Brown, adjuvante J. I. Bennett 
arm°, summ ‘iutann tate ac benevolentia, plantarum Maderensium 
) Masson aiague lectarum, in Herbario Banksiano conservatarum, 
necnon manuscriptorum ipsius Solandri, copiam feci 
Besides the specimens and lists, we have a volume of twenty-two 
drawings by Sydney Parkinson, who accompanied Banks and Solan- 
der, some of which were engraved although not published. The 
following is a list of them; those engraved are indicated by an 
asterisk ;— 
Tlex Perado Ait. *Linaria he ar Desf. 
,, Azevinho Sol. (canariensis *Sibthorpia grina L 
oir.). *Globularia iilieins iain: 
*Lotus glaucus Ait. Lavandula pinnata L. f. 
Eugenia err L. *Ocotea foetens Nees 
niflora L. Smilax pendulina Lowe. 
*Lythrum “Greefferi Ten. Caladium picturatum C. Koch 
*Helichrysum obconicum, DC. & Bouché. 
*Clethra arborea Ait. ine ents a 
*Ardisia excelsa Ait. Pte 
Diospyros Lotus L. Polypoditim helper 
*Convolvulus Snot B vire- *Asplenium monanthos. 
scens Lowe. B 2 
