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xtremely elementary : the 

 plants intended, however, are in most cases easily recognisable. 

 Each is numbered : on an average there are three on a page, the 

 _ ires on 9;1 folios, each of which has at 

 Young Esqr. pinxio." The descriptive matter 

 promised on the title-page was never supplied. At the end is "an 

 alphabetical Catalogue containing the Generic and Classic Characters 

 of all the plants throughout the Work." This description, however, 

 is, to say the least of it, pretentious, as the catalogue only contains 

 the generic or English name, or an indication of the Linnean class, 

 of each figure, with many misspellings. The index is simply an 

 enumeration of the pages m numerical order, with the names of the 

 plants on each. 



A few of the names are of Young's invention. Dioncea, for 

 which no name had then been published, he called, after himself, 

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royal patroness, on some species of Habenaria. At the end of the 

 William Youii" t Esqr^ lma ' T ° WD ' ^ lst December 1767< 



The volume of specimens exactly corresponds, with one or two 

 omissions, with the figures in numbering and arrangement. Its 

 tatleruns:— "A Collection of Speciments from North and South 



Drafts in Page's and Numbers. Collected by William Young Junr. 

 Esqr., Botanist to their Majesty's in the Year of our Lord ' 1767." 

 dried ^ m ° St CaS63 sufficient ' and are fairl y wel1 



The 

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} have of Young confirm thi 



We first come upon his name in the Correspondence' of Linnmis 

 hJ^'r D r AIe ? nder Garden ' wto k a <* pathetically lamented 

 -?™ a . C ? Untry aboundi ng with almost every sort of 

 I •? 7% i t ^ haVe pIeased God t0 raise U P one botanist," 

 writes to Ellis on July 25, 1761 :-« I have at last met with a man 

 wno w to commence nurseryman and gardener, and to collect seeds, 

 -? the London market. He is a sensible careful man, 



all the advice 



and has a turn for that bui 



procure for him from your gardeners or nurserymen, t. 

 w fl °X a nT T T n Wh ° Want whafc our P rovince affords - He 

 Mile-end; and I must beg that you would procure some commissions 

 trom them to him. He is to employ his whole time in procuring 

 whatever may be ordered. His name is Young, and any letters for 

 him inclosed to me, will be taken care of." 



By what stroke of luck or exercise of interest Young received 

 Ins speedy promotion we cannot ascertain, but we can gather some 

 rapid advancement and subsequent fall from 



