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					Mill[er] dict.i		1759
Myrtus   coriacia			Mill[er] dict.	1779 	1759
Myrtus   acris				So[uth] Amer[ica]. Andersonii --
Myrtus   dumosa	1793		West Indies. Smith & Co

Myrtus x biflora	1759		Mill[er] dict		June
					two flower[e]d .	Jamaica myrtle
	    vergultosaiii		Solitary flower[e]d Jamaica Myrtle
					? when was Swartziv in England
					He pointed out this plant growing
					in the East[?] bed in the Needlefl[owe]r[s]
					& the plant was then old in H[ortus] Kew[ensis]

	    littoralis			Hospital.?   not in Willdv

.  .  .  .  .  		.		.
Eucalyptus piperita			Peppermint Tree
					When was this introd[uced?]  I should
					think the year following the first 
					settlement in new South Wales
	       robusta			East side of New Holland.  Menziesvi
	       haemastoma		New Holland		Menzies
	       marginata		New Holland   Fl[owers] May and June
Calyptranthes  jambolana		East Indies  .   1796. by the Hon[oura]ble.
					East India Co.   Query or Peter Goodvii

Prunus siberica --
Mespilus Japonica	----		Sir Joseph Banks K.B.viii  when Introd[uced?]
					Fl[owers] Oct[obe]r. Nov[embe]r.	fl .
Pyrus Japonica	--------		Sir Joseph Banks K.B. 1796
					Fl[owers] March --- May
Crataegus arbutifolia			Mr Dryandersix	JNPs [?]

Mesembryanthemums deferr'd
Tetragon[i]a cornuta	.  from France   Not in Willd
Spiraea chamaedrifolia.		 Mr. R. Austinx
Spiraea thalictroid[e]s	--    }	 Count Alexis de Razoumoffskyxi 	Italy[?]
	   triloba. ---		      }	---------------

Fragrance to be consider[e]d   .          Willdv makes all the Var[ieties][?]  sp[ecies]

i   Philip Miller, (1691-1771) Gardener's Dictionary
ii   James Anderson, (1738-1809) Scottish physician and botanist 
iii.  virgultosa
iv. Peter Olof Swartz, (1760-1818) Swedish botanist and taxonomist
v   Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) Berlin botanist who published Linnaei Species Plantarum in 6 volumes, referred to as Willd.
vi   Archibald Menzies (1754-1842) Scottish surgeon and botanical collector
vii   Peter Good (d. 1803) Scottish gardener and plant and seed collector for Kew
viii.  Sir Joseph Banks KB (1743-1820) English naturalist, botanist and patron of the Natural Sciences.
ix   Jonas Carlsson Dryander (1748-1810) Swedish botanist, librarian of the Royal Society of London
x    I cannot find any reference to an R. Austin, who must have introduced this plant to Kew.
xi     Count Alexis de Razoumovsky died in 1771. Son of a Ukrainian peasant, he rose high in Russian society and was a singer.and politician. He married the Empress, Elizabeth of Russia.