426 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Vernonia brasiliana (L. Sp. PL 1205, 1763) as Baccharis : comb, 

 no v., not of Less, nor Mart., vice V. scabra Persoon, who in Syn. ii., 

 401, cites the Linnean name. Compositae. Amer. trop. 



Wissadula periplocifolia (L. Sp. PI. 684, 1753) as Sida, not of 

 Griseb. or Thwaites (teste Ind. Kew.)1 vice W. rostrata Planchon. 

 Malvaceae. Zeylon. In FL Ceylon i., 146, W. periplocifolia Thwaites 

 is cited as a synonym of W. zeylandica and Sida periplocifolia L. 



Zeuxine strateumatica (L. Sp. PI. 943, 1753) as Orchis: comb, 

 nov., vice Zeuxine sulcata Lindley. Orchidaceae. Zeylon. In FL 

 Ceylon iv., 215, Orchis strateumatica L. is cited for Z. sulcata Lindley. 



PART II. 



THE ABRIDGEMENT OF MILLER'S GARDENER'S 

 DICTIONARY OF 1754. 



Two important systematic works issued very shortly after the 

 publication of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum in 1753, a date which is 

 now adopted by practically every botanist as the starting point of 

 specific citation, have escaped the notice of almost all botanical 

 writers, namely the Abridgement from The Gardener's Dictionary by 

 Phillip Miller, F.R.S., Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, 

 and Gardener to the Apothecaries' Company at their celebrated Chelsea 

 Garden. This, the fourth edition, was abridged from the folio edition 

 of 1 752. A few details respecting Miller's important works may be 

 given. In 1724 appeared in two octavo volumes The Gardener's & 

 Florist's Dictionary, which was dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane. The 

 first folio edition entitled The Gardener's Dictionary is dated 1731, 

 the second 1733 (of this a corrected edition was also issued, but with 

 few, if any alterations), the third with a Kalendar in 1737, a second 

 volume dedicated to the Earl of Burlington in 1739, the fourth in 1741 

 (teste Martyn, 1743), the fifth in 1747 (Martyn, 1748), the sixth, the 

 first complete edition, 1752, the seventh, published in numbers and 

 without the Kalendar, dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland, is 

 dated 1759, the eight in 2 volumes in 1768, this being the first edition 

 in which the binomial system is consistently used. It states that the 

 number of plants cultivated in England is more than double those 

 known in 1731. Of the Abridgements that dated 1735 is alone 



