PLANTS COLLECTED ON THE SANDWICH ISLANDS BY GEORGE BARCLAY HAWAIIAN PLANT STUDIES 89 Harold St. John Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, Box 6037, 95818, USA. George Barclay was born at Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, but the date is unknown. He was trained as a gardener, and was employed in the Royal Gardens, Kew. On the recommendation of Robert Brown, he was appointed botanical collector for the voyage of H.M.S Sulphur, under Capt . F. N, Beechey who was soon replaced by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher. On this world voyage, they visited the Hawaiian Islands three times. On July 9, 1837 they arrived at Honolulu, then on the 26th left for Kauai. They returned to Honolulu on June 10th, 1839, and on the 16th they departed from Kauai. In 1840 they briefly touched at the islands. Evidently Barclay's days on shore were few, but he made good collections, totalling some 90 species of plants from Oahu and Kauai. His labels state the month, and the year, and often the habitat, the stature, and the color of the flowers. These details were seldom recorded by botanists of his time. His plant specimens are preserved in the herbarium of the British Museum of Natural History in London. He did not publish anything on botany. There is a book on the botany of the voyage of the Sulphur, by George Bentham (1844-1846) , but it includes only the plants collected in Fiji. ENUMERATION PTERIDOPHYTA Lycopodiaceae Lycopodium cernuum L. 1235, Woahu (=Oahu) , mountains, rich loam, July 1837. 1339;, Atooi (=Kauai), hills, rich mould, July 1837. Psilotaceae Psilotum nudum (L.) Griseb. 1234, Woahu, moist vegetable soil, July 1837. Ophioglossaceae Ophioglossum falcatum (Presl) Fowler, 12 33, Woahu, on trees & rocks, decayed vegetable soil, July 1837; Sandwich Islands, without other data. Grammitaceae Amphoradenium tamariscinum (Kaulf.) Copel. Woahu, without other data. Polypodiaceae Polypodium Thunbergianum C. Chr. Woahu, on vegetable soil and rocks, July 1837. 281
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