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FERXS . BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
not the earliest, collector sent out from Kew, and 
who succeeded in introducing large numbers of Cape 
Protencece and Ericaccce, sent home several Ferns 
from the Cape of Good Hope and Madeira. This col- 
lector proceeded to the Cape in 1774, and came home 
by way of Madeira about the year 1778, returning 
again in 1736, and remaining at the Cape during the 
nine following years. Early in the present century 
Mr. George Caley, who was originally a horse-doctor, 
residing near Birmingham, but acquired a love for 
plants through collecting herbs, was sent out by 
Sir Joseph Banks to Xew South Wales, and to him 
we owe Platycerium alcicome, Doodia aspcra, and 
Davallia pyxidata, the first introductions from Aus- 
tralia, received about the year 1808. The next col- 
lectors to whom the garden was indebted for Ferns, 
are the Messrs. Allan Cunningham and James 
Bowie. They left Kew in 1814, on a botanical 
expedition to Brazil, where they remained exploring 
the country and sending home large collections till 
1816, when the former proceeded to Xew South Wales, 
and the latter to the Cape of Good Hope. Xo living 
Ferns appear to have resulted from the Brazilian ex- 
pedition ; but several Australian species and one or 
two from Xorfolk Island were received from Mr. 
Cunningham, and two or three from Mr. Bowie from 
the Cape. 
Several other collectors were employed in the ser- 
vice of these gardens, when under the Directorship of 
Mr. Aiton, such as Messrs. Barclay and Armstrong ; 
but I can trace no Ferns to them, nor, with certainty, 
to David Lockhart, a gardener from Kew, who accom- 
panied the ill-fated expedition of Captain Tuckey up 
