Thapsia garganica by Ferdinand Bauer from drawings made for "Flora Graeca"
Memorial to Sibthorp in Bath Abbey
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.
John Sibthorp
…however, he had done little beyond collecting some three thousand species and providing the plates. The task of preparing the works was undertaken by Sir J.E. Smith, who issued the two volumes of the Prodromus in 1806 and 1813, and six volumes of the Flora Graeca between 1806 and 1828. The seventh appeared in 1830…
Portrait of Sir James Edward Smith