4:04 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
ledge of plants. The Cryptogamiae especially, have 
gained much by. his discoveries*. : 
James Edward Smith, physician at Norwich, and: 
President of the London Linnean Society, was for- 
tunate enough to purchase the whole Linnean her- 
barium. It could not have come into better hands, 
for from it he has characterised more accurately se- 
veral scarce and but imperfectly known plants, and 
by publishing descriptions of many new plants, espe- 
cially of New Holland, and fixing the genera in the 
filices on more solid foundations, he has gained ever- 
lasting fame. His writings are of great value to 
the botanistT. 
William 
* Olof Swartz nova genera et species plantarum seu Prod- 
romus descriptionum vegetabilium maximam partem incogni- 
torum, quae sub itinere in Indiam occidentalem digessit. Hol- 
miae. 1788. 8vo. a 
Ejusd. Observationes botanicae, Erlangae. 1791. with 1% 
plates. | 
It appears but just. to observe, that Mr Swartz saw the 
greatest part of the plants described in his Prodromus first in 
Sir Joseph Banks’s collection. They were, at least 12 years be- 
fore Mr Swartz wrote this work, collected and sent to Sir 
Joseph by Dr Wright, now in Edinburgh. T. 
Ejusd. Icones plantarum incognitarum quas, in India occi- 
dentali detexit atque delineavit. Fasc. I. Erlang. 1794. Only 
six neatly coloured plates have been published. 
Kjusd. Flora Indiae occidentalis aucta atque illustrata, sive 
descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum. Yom. I. IT. 
Erlangae. 1797, 1798. Continued. The first volume con- 
tains I5 neat plates representing the anatomy of the new 
genera. : 
f¢ Jacobi Edward Smith Plantarum icones hactenus in- 
editae, 
