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referred to Milla by Mr. Baker, and excludes his B. volubilis 
(= Strophilirion) and vd coccinea (ue Brevoortia\. The three species 
left must stand as follow; 
Hooxera coronaria Salish. Parad. t. 98 edie = Brodiea grandi- 
flora Sm, in Linn. Trans. x. 2 (18 
H. PuLcHELLA “Balisb. Le akT Bs. congesta Sm. l.c. p. 3. 
H. muntirtora = B, multiflora Benth. Pl. Hartw. 339. 
The other plants placed under Brodiea by Mr. Watson, Liat in 
Proce. Amer. Acad. and in ‘ Botany of California,’ li. 158, m take 
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identity of H. pulchella Salisb. Mr. Baker doubtfully refers it to 
B. congesta 8m., and Mr. Watson ite doubtfully) to B. capitata 
Benth. I think, however, that if § ury’s remarks be read care- 
will be seen ao Smi the ee congesta and Salisbury’s H. 
who was likely to know. But an ele which might be felt 
as to the synonymy of the latter is overcome by the statement of 
the authors of the ‘Genera,’ who say, ‘‘B. capitata Benth. Pl. 
Hartw. 339, a specie typica B. congesta Sm. nequaquam differe 
videtur, nisi staminibus omnibus nec 8 solis antheriferis.* Hookera 
ape Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 1 dubie ad unam alteramve 
aband don ith’s conduct was Snfustifable, 3 asmuch as he 
dettbebataly set aside Salisbury’s name (of the existence of which 
he was fully cognisant) in favour of his It is to be regretted 
The restoration of Hookera is not only a tardy act of justice to 
Salisbury, but it brings back to nomenclature the commemoration 
of the able artist who planned and illustrated the ‘ Paradisus 
prone This work contains 117 plates, erode s discontinu ed 
“the 122nd No. of Paradisus Londinensis, of witich only a od 
copies were a by Mr. Hooker to his friends, without any figure.” 
Salisbury was believed by Sir Joseph Banks to help Hooker with 
money in the  poblidation of the work.§ William Hooker (who was 
born in 1779||) was a pupil—and an apt one—of Francis Bauer: 
ong Menzies’ eS , of B. ont Sm. in Herb. Mus. Brit. is one 
maskeas by Brown, ‘ Distinct and hexandro 
t Salisb. Gen. p. 1 ~ ¢. 189. 
§ Banks’ MS. Godiapiieum Jan. 15, 1806. || Salisb. Gen. p. 85. 
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