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Gnidia	        capitata   1790   is this a first introduction. Vide Red Book & is 					     Headed Gnidia a good name. Now I have some doubt if 				     this plant is really in England

Passerina	hirsuta.    Mill[er] dict[ionary] edit 7.No.2
	 		     Donni 1788 - observe it flowering in Aug[us]t - & list
           Is right.

capitata      	     1789 or 1790? Mr. Massonii. now at Mr. Hibbertsiii but 			     dead at Kew

	spicata        	     1787. I am in opinion Mr. Fairbanks of Chelsea					     introd[uced] this, ask the year.

	grandiflora         1790?? May & June. Masson

	ciliata                 1759 - Mill[er]siv dict[ionary] - ciliated- sp or.

Lachn[a]ea	Eriocephala		when introd[uced] Woolly headed Lachnaea.

Polygonum 	pensylvanicum 	1799 Masson . is this an English 
					plant. 	Mss. examine  into this
		chinense-    		D[itto]

		undulatum		17  	Wave leav[e]d poly[gonum]. Donni.
Coccoloba	pubescens   		1768 Mill[er]s dict[ionary] edit8  no 2
					fl[owers] when
		barbadensis		this is named in Houston'sv Catalogue says						Martynvi what cat. is meant by this - 							Barbadoes	Sea side Grape
					Introd[uced] 1790. E Elcock
					Fl.
Paullinia	pinnata.             winged leaved. paullinia 1759
				    H[ortus]. Cambridge 1790.

Scopolia	Asiatica  {erasure}    Asiatic paullinia Dr. Russell
		aculeata W
		barbadensis         1795. 	Ed.Elcock

Vere[i]a 	crenata               1793. orpine leav[e]d Verea Nat[ive] of Sierra Leon[e]					says Willdvii & Donn, I suspect they are both 						wrong & the plant is S[outh]. A[frican]. the first of 					this I saw at Lady Butesviii Garden Brompton

Forskuhleaviii	tenacissima	1770.    H[ortus] Cam[bridge] 1778.
in Decandria H.K


i James Donn  (1758 - 1813). Englist botanist and gardener, a prot�g� of Sir Joseph Banks and curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
ii Francis Masson (1741-1805).  Scottish botanist and Kew's first plant hunter
iii George Hibbert (1757 - 1837).  English Merchant, politician, slave owner and amateur botanist
iv Philip Miller (1691-1771) English botanist of Scottish descent.  Author of two Garden Dictionairies in 1724 and 1731.  Applauded by Linnaeus
v William Houstoun (1695? - 1733)  Scottish surgeon and botanist
vi Thomas Martyn (1735 - 1825)  Assembled a global collection of botanical books and plant specimens which are held in the Cambridge University Library
vii Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1766 - 1812).  German botanist, pharmacist and plant taxonomist
viii  Forsskaolea tenacissima L.
viii 1st Marchioness of Bute