BANKSIA SERRATA. 
This is one of the four species of Banks! i 
kscribed in the Supplementum Plantarum of 
Li-nnaeus, specimens of which are contained iil 
rhe Herbarium of that incomparable naturalist^ 
now in the possession of Dn Smith, of Marl- 
borough Street, London* 
Thougli this plant, which is a native of 
New Holland, has received from Linnaeus the 
name Banksia Serrata ; it is called, by Dr. 
Gaertner, Banksia Conchifera. 
This circumstance, which in truth would 
need no apology, were it not for the very 
superlative' merits of Linnaeus, has received 
a very liberal one in the Appendix to Mr. 
White's Journal of his Voyage to New 
South W ales, which v^e shall take the libeity 
to transcribe. 
" Dr. Gaertner, in his admirable book on 
fruits and seeds, has figured the fruit of several 
Banksias, some of them described by Lin-- 
li^us. Having had his plates, with the names, 
engraved before he saw the Supplementum of 
LinnjEus, his nomenclatme differs from that 
of 
