Smith.] 
Botanical Necrology for 1888. 429 
Note sur un tronc fossile. Ibid. II (1878). 
Revision de la Flore normande de Brdbisson. Caen, 1879. 
Note sur le Pyrola rotundifolia ; indication de plusieurs plantes rares 
trouv€es en Normandie. Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. ser. 3, III (1879). 
Note sur le Cycadeomyelon Apperti. Ibid. 
Cas tdratologique offert par plusieurs rameaux de prunier. Ibid. 
Nouvelle station de Monotropa Hypopitys. Ibid. 
Considerations gdndrales sur la flore fossile et specialement sur 
celle du lias. Ibid. IV (1880). 
Note sur une maladie du pommier. Ibid. 
Cas tdratologique offert par le Primula sinensis. Ibid. VI (1882) and VIII 
(1884). 
Note sur VAzolla Caroliniana. Ibid. IX (1885). 
Note sur la presence du genre Banksia dans la craie de Vimontiers- 
Ibid. 
Also many geological papers. 
JOHN SMITH. Born at Aberdour, Fife, October 5, 1798. Died 
at Kew, February 14, 1888. Educated at Pittenweem Parish 
School. Apprentice to his father at Grangemuir. Journeyman 
at Raith, 1815; at Donibristle, 1816; at Caley House, 1817; 
at Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 1818. Gardener at Royal Forcing 
Gardens, Kensington, 1820; at Royal Gardens, Kew, 1822. 
Curator of Royal Gardens, Kew, 1841-1864. Autobiographical 
notice in Gardener’s Chronicle, 1876. Obituary in Gardener’s 
Chronicle, 1888. Published: — 
Observations on the Cause of Ergot on Grasses. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1838. 
Notice of a Plant which produces perfect seeds without any apparent 
action of Pollen. Ibid. 1839. 
An Enumeration of the Ferns of the Philippine Islands. Hooker’s 
Journ. of Botany, 1841. 
An Arrangement and Definition of the Genera of Ferns. Ibid. 
Characters of Twenty New Genera of Ferns in Hooker and Bauer’s 
Genera Filicum. 1842. 
An Enumeration of the Ferns cultivated at Kew, in 1845 . Botanical 
Magazine, 1846. 
Enumeration of the Ferns collected during the Voyage of Her Majesty’s 
Surveying Ship Herald. Published in Seemann’s Botany of the Voyage, 
1856. 
Catalogue of Ferns cultivated at Kew and other British Gardens, with 
Characters of the Genera. 1857. 
Ferns, British and Foreign, their History, Organography, and Classifi- 
cation. London, Hardwicke and Bogue, 18 66. 
Domestic Botany; an exposition of the Structure, Classification, and 
Uses of Plants. London, Reeve & Co., 1871. 
Historia Filicum ; an Exposition of the Nature, Number, and Organo- 
graphy of Ferns. London, Macmillan, 1875. 
Bible plants, their history. London, Hardwicke and Bogue, 1877. 
