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Lloyd, John (1791 ?-1870) : b. Herefordshire, 1791?; d. 24 Jan., 

 1870. Contributed to Phytol. iv. and n.s. i.-vi. Gard. 

 Chron. 1870, i. 180 ; E. S. C. iv. 64. 



Lloyd, Morris (fl. 1640). Of Prislierworth, Anglesey. Dis- 

 covered Oxyria in Wales. Park. Theatr. 745. 



Lobb, Thomas (fi. 1847). Collector for Veitch in India and 

 Malaya. List of his plants (by Planchon) in Journ. Bot. 

 1847-8. Journ. Bot. 1847, 145; Cott. Gard. xiii. 274. 

 Lohhia Planch. 



Lobb, William (1809-63) : b. East Cornwall, 1809 ; d. San 

 Francisco, 1863 ; bur. Lone Mt. Cemetery. Brother of pre- 

 ceding. Collector for "Veitch in S. America, 1840-8, and in 

 California, 1849-57. Veitch, ' Manual of the Coniferas,' p. 

 258. Lobbia Planch. 



Lobel, Matthias de (1538-1616) : b. Lille, Flanders, 1538 ; 

 d. Highgate, 1616. Botanographer to James I. Pupil of 

 Eondeletius at Montpelier. ' Adversaria Nova ' [with Peter 

 Pena], London, 1570-1. ' Observationes,' Antwerp, 1676. 

 ' Illustrationes,' ed. W. How, 1655. Superintendent of Lord 

 Zouch's garden, Hackney. Introduced Ephedra distachya, 

 1570; Salvia grandi flora, 1616. Pult. i. 96; Eees ; Pritz. 

 194 ; Jacks. 574 ; Fl. Midd. 369. Engr. portr. fol. vign. by 

 Francis DeUarame, 1615. Copy at Kew. Lobelia L. 



Lockhart, David (d. 1846) : d. Trinidad, 1846. Kew gardener. 

 Assistant to Christian Smith on Congo Expedition, 1816 : 

 sole survivor of the staff. Superintendent Trinidad Bot. 

 Garden, 1823. Lasegue, 444. Plants from Bahia in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. Bot. Mag. 2715. Journ. Bot. 1847, 40 ; E. S. C. 

 iv. 68 ; Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. p. 236 ; Smith, Kew, 230. 

 Lockhartia Hook. 



Lockhead, William (d. 1815) ; d. St. Vincent Bot. Garden, 22 

 March, 1815 ; bur. in the garden. Succeeded Anderson as 

 Curator, July, 1811. Drawings in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. E. S. 

 C. iv. 67 ; Guilding, ' Account of St. Vincent Bot. Gard.,' 1825. 



Loddiges, Conrad (d. 1820) : b. Germany ; d. Hackney, 1820. 

 Nurseryman, Hackney, from 1771 ? Introduced plants from 

 Michaux and Bartram : Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 84. 'Bot- 

 anical Cabinet,' 1817. Pritz. 194 ; Jacks, 574 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 965. Loddigesia Sims. 



Loddiges, George (1784-1846) : b. Hackney, 12 March, 1784 ; 

 d. Hackney, 5 June, 1846. F.L.S., 1821. Son of preceding. 

 ' Botanical Cabinet,' 1817-34, with many of the plates drawn 

 by himself. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 334. 



Loftus, William Kennett (c. 1821-58) : b. Eye, Sussex, 1821 ? 

 d. 'On board ' Tyburnia,' returning from India, November, 

 1858. F.G.S. On Turco-Persian Frontier Commission 

 1849-52. Conductor of Assyrian Excavation Expedition 

 1853-65. On Indian Geological Sm-vey from 1855. Col 

 lected in Assj-ria, Persia, &c. Plants in Brit. Mus. and Herb 

 Kew. ' Travels in Chaldtea,' 1859. Proc. Eoy. Geogr. Soc 

 iii. (1858-9), 259 ; Gent. Mag. 1859, vi. 435 ; Trans. Tyne- 

 side Nat. Club, iv. 98. 



