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RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN BOTANISTS.
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König and Sims, ii, 504-32, 1806). Robert Brown acknowledges his indebtedness to Dryander. Further details concerning the latter will be found in my forthcoming "Life of Banks." He is commemorated in the Proteaceous genus Dryandra and in Grevillea Dryandra, R. Br.


Endlicher, Stephen Ladislaus (1804-1849). Hungarian botanist and philologist; was born at Pressburg. Professor of Botany in the University, 1840, and Director of the Botanic Gardens and Botanic Museums, Vienna. Author of Prodromus Floræ Norfolkicæ, 1833; Iconographia Generum Plantarum, 1838; also Genera Plantarum, 1836-40; Flora Brasiliensis, 1840; Enchiridion Botanicum, 1841; and other works. Died at Vienna. There is in Kew a lithograph by Strixner from a drawing by B. J. Rauh. (Standing figure to knees, in spectacles, wearing a long sash and resting his right hand on his sword, facing spectator.) (8). He has placed Australians under an obligation by his work on Norfolk Island plants (Floræ Norfolkicæ) and by his "Generum Plantarum," which contains many descriptions of Australian genera. See also Asa Gray's review of this work in Amer. Journ. of Sci. and Arts, xxxix, 176 (Reprinted in Sargent's "Scientific papers of Asa Gray.") He is commemorated by the following Australian plants:—

Acacia Endlicheri, Meissn. —A. strigosa, Link, var. Endlicheri; Bossiæa Endlicheri. Meissn. = B. eriocarpa, Benth.; Apalochlamys Endlicheri, DC. = Cassinia speciabilis, R.Br.; Astartea Endlicheriana, Schau. = A. fascicularis, DC.; Melaleuca Endlicheriana, Schau. = M. seriata, Lindl.: Senecio Endlicherii, DC. = ?; Verticordia Endlicheriana, Schau. = V. Preissii, Schau.; Polypompholyx Endlicheri, Lehm. = P. multifida, F.v.M.; Grevillea Endlicheriana, Meiss.; Frenela Endlicheri, Parlat.; Alania Endlicheri, Kunth.; Pteris Endlicheriana, Ag. = P. comans, Forst.; Xerotes Endlicheri, F.v.M.


Forster, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798). D.C.L., M.D. German naturalist and traveller. Born at Dirschau, and