Hist. v. iv. p. 161. NearSennen: tt. C. Watson, Esq. in N. B. G. At Tre- 
guminion, near Fowey : Knw. Duke, Esq. — Cumberland; Glencoin ? Gow- 
lrarrow Park, by Airey Force? Keswick? N. 13. G. — Devon; Between New- 
bridge and Spitchwick Lodge; about t lie springs in t lie village of Tor, near 
Harford: Sir Francis Drank and Mr. Hudson. Marshes at Staverton , Bat- 
tery and Sheiford; Cornwood : FI. Devon. — Hants; In the Isle of Jersey, 
1833: \V. C. Trevelyan, Esq — Lincolnsh. In some meadows near Honning- 
ton : Mr. Him., in Bla/cst. Sp. But. — Somersets/i. Near Nettle ombe: YV. C. 
Trevelyan, Esq. in N. B. G. — Sussex ; In a bog. near the nursery ground on 
Waldron Down, and along the stream that issues fiorn thence, passing Burnt- 
house Farm, to some distance West of it: N. 13. G. — Westmoreland ; By 
Buckharrow-xvell in Longsledale: Mr. Hub«on. — YV A LKS. Glamorganshire; 
Under a damp shady wail on the left ah ut 200 yards hefoie you come to Font y 
Pridd from Cardiff: Sir J. Cullum. — 1 KELAN D. Under a wall on the North 
side of Conner-htll, near Dingle, 1835: Mr. J. T. Mackay. 
Perennial. — Flowers from June to September. 
Root fibrous. Stems prostrate, creeping, thread-shaped, branch- 
ed, entangled, frequently throwing out small fibres from near the 
insertion of the leaf-stalks. Leaves alternate, on short, ascending 
leaf-stalks, horizontal, roundish kidney-shaped, the margin in 6 or 
7 blunt lobes or crenatures, those nearest the base the smallest, 
rather succulent, veiny, light green, paler beneath, sprinkled, like 
the rest of the herbage, with small, simple, scattered, projecting, 
transparent bristles. Peduncles ( flower-stalks J thread-shaped, from 
the axils of the leaves, upright, solitary, single-flowered, short, pen- 
dulous after flowering. Corolla (f. 2.) minute, whitish, the 3 upper 
segments more or less tinged with pale red. Stamens nearly equal. 
This very distinct genus was named by Linn.lus in honour of Humphry 
Sibthorp, D. M., who succeeded the celubiated Dilllnivs in the Botanical 
chair at Oxford, in 1747. Of this professor little notice is preset ved ; hut his son, 
John Sibthorp, D.M., to whom he resigned the Botanical Professorship in 
1784, richly earned his inheritance of the honour, by his indefatigable zeal in 
the pursuit of the same science ; his love for which led him to undertake two 
journeys into Greece and the Archipelago, the first in 1784, the second in 1794. 
In the first of these journeys he engaged at Vienna, as draughtsman, the cele- 
brated Ferdinand Bauer, with whom he visited Constantinople, Crete, Cyprus, 
and other islands of the Grecian Archipelago. He also travelled over a con- 
siderable part of the Morea, and did not return to England till December, 1787. 
In March, 1794, he set out a second time for the same country, attended by 
I’nANcis Bouone, as Botanical Assistant, and accompanied by his friend Mr. 
Hawkins. YVith them he visited Bithvnia, Mount Olympus, the Troad, the 
Isles of Lemnos and Imbros, the Peninsula of Athos, and passing some time in 
Attica, and two months in the Morea, he parted from his companion Mr. 
Hawkins, and returned to bis native country in the Autumn of 1795, when, his 
health being impaired, a long and uncomfortable passage of 24 days from Zante 
to Otranto, laid the foundation of a complaint in the lungs, which a few months 
after his return to England proved fatal. He died at Bath, on February the 8th, 
1796, in the 38th year of his age. By his will, dated January 12, 1796, lie makes 
over to the Oxford Botanic Garden ail his drawings, books of Natural History, 
and Collections, and gives a freehold estate in Oxfordshire to the University of 
Oxford, for the purpose, first, of publishing his Flora Grcecu, in 10 folio vo- 
lumes, with 100 coloured plates in each ; and afterwards of endowing a Pro- 
fessorship of Rural Economy in bis own University. The publication and editor- 
ship of this splendid work was confided to the late Sir J. E. Smith, who lived to 
complete six of these volumes, and half the seventh. Since the death of this 
learned Botanist, which happened on the 17th of March, 1828, it has been con- 
ducted by the eminent and highly distinguished Botanist, Dr. John Lindley, 
F. R. S., &c. Professor of Botany in the University of London. Owing to the 
very expensive manner in which it is got up, few copies of it are sold, but it will 
remain a magnificent monument of the zeal and science of its author ; as the ex- 
cellent Flora Oxoniensis, published in 1794, will bear ample testimony to the 
knowledge he possessed of the plants of his own country. See Memorials of 
Oxford, and Life of Sir J. E. Smith. 
