BRITISH AND lElSH BOTAnIsTS. 101 



Botany in ' Penny Cyclopasdia ' from letter E. Translated 

 Schleiden, 1849. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xii. 202; Pritz. 

 176 ; Jacks. 570 ; E. S. 0. iii. 844 ; ' Athenaeum,' ii. 1874 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxii. 137. Portr. Men of Eminence, 1865. 

 Lankesteria Lindl. 



Law, John Sutherland (d. 1886 ?). Of Bombay Civil Service. 

 F.L.S., 1856. Collected in Deccan, Concan, &c. Wight, Ic. 

 1070. PI. at Kew and Oxford (Fielding) Herb. Lasegue. 

 Laiuia Wight = Adenosacme. Lawia Griff. = Terniola Tul. 



Laurence, or Lawrence, Rev. John (1688-1732) : b. Stam- 

 ford Barnard, Northamptonsh., 1668; d. Bishop's Wear- 

 mouth, Durham, 18 May, 1732 ; bur. same place. B.A. 

 Camb., 1668 ; Eector of Yelvertoft, 1703. Eector of Bishop's 

 Wearmouth, 1721. Prebendary of SaHsbury, 1723. ' A new 

 system of Agriculture, containing an account of Silphium,' 

 1726. Additions to ed. 5 of Curtis' 'British Grasses,' 1812. 

 Journ. Hort. xxx. (1876), 271, with portr.; Gent. Mag. 

 1732, 775 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxii. 206. Portr. in possession 

 of Pemberton family ; copperplate by Vertue in his ' Clergy- 

 man's Eecreation,' 1714. 



Lawrence, Miss Mary (£1. 1790-1810). Of London. ' Teacher 

 of botanical drawing.' ' A collection of Eoses from Nature,' 

 1799. ' A collection of Passion Flowers,' 1799-1800. Pritz. 

 177 ; Jacks. 142. 



Lawrence, Robert William (1807-33) : b. 18 Oct., 1807 ; d. 

 Tasmania, 18 Oct., 1833. Collected in Western Mountains, 

 Tasmania. Lasegue, 328 ; Journ. Bot. 1834, 236 ; Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. 272 ; PI. Tasmania, cxxv. ; E. S. C. iii. 894. 

 Laivrehcia Hook. 



Lawson, Isaac (fl. 1737-47) : b. in Scotland ; d. Oosterhout, 

 Netherlands, 1747. M.D. Leyden, 1737. Friend of Lin- 

 naeus and Gronovius. Physician to the Army. Printed (with 

 Gronovius) Linn^'s ' Systema Naturae.' Plants from Padua, 

 with List, in Herb. Sloane, Ixiii. Linn. Diary, 530 ; Linn. 

 Corr. i. 18 ; ii. 173, 175 ; Eich. Corr. 345 ; Pult. View of 

 Linnaeus, 15; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxii. 291. Lawsonia Ti. 



La'wson, John (d. 1712) : b. in Scotland ; burnt by Indians on 

 E. Neuse, N. Carolina, 1712. Surveyor-General of N. Caro- 

 lina from 1700. 'Voyage to Carolina,' 1709; reprinted as 

 ' History of Carolina, containing the Natural History,' 1714. 

 Plants in Herb. Sloane, 145, 242. Pritz. ed. 1, 150 ; Apple- 

 ton, Cyclop. Americ. Biog. ; Drake, Diet. Americ. Biog. ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xxxii. 294. 



Lawson, John (fl. 1829-39). Of Elgin. ' On smut-balls in 

 wheat,' Journ. Agric. ix. 1839, 269. ' Treatise on Smut in 

 Grain,' 1829. E. S. C. viii. 178. 



Lawson, Rev. Thomas (1630-91) : b. 10 Oct., 1630 ; d. Great 

 Strickland, Westmoreland, 12 Nov., 1691 ; bur. Friends' 

 Burying-ground, Newby Head. Vicar of Eampside, Furness. 

 Afterwards master of Friends' School, Great Strickland. List 

 of plants, Eay Letters, 197. Pult. ii. 116 ; Eich. Corr. 5 ; 

 Nich. Anecd. i. 233 ; E, Syn., ed. 1, 43, &c, ; Pluk. Aim. 8 ; 



