ADVERTISEMENT.
F ifteen years have now transpired since the General
Index appeared,, which formed the concluding part
of Smith and Sowerby’s “ English Botany.” Often
during that period, it was in the contemplation of the
proprietors of that work to publish a Supplement of
those plants which had been discovered to be British
since its termination.
The death of Mr. Sowerby in 1822, and the recent
loss of the learned President of the Linnean Society,
immediately after he had put the finishing touch to the
last and most valuable of his writings, " The English
Flora,” effectually prevent the original conductors
from having any share in the continuation. Already a
number of drawings have been prepared, and it is now
the intention of the two sons of the late Mr. Sowerby,
Messrs. J. D. C. and C. E. Sowerby, to publish these
and figures of other plants necessary to the work, as
supplementary volumes ; which, when completed, will
at least comprise every known British Phcenogamous
Plant. The proprietors calculate upon extending the
work to two more volumes ; by which means they will