> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 421](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120552) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1327-1) LSID 1327-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294651) QID Q294651 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of (1713-1792), British statesman, patron of literature and amateur botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Bute* \[standard form in IPNI: *Stuart*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]. – 928 unpublished water colour drawings (5 vols.) also at [[Collection BM|BM]]. *Ref*.: BB p. 292; IH 2: 110. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 291; BB p. 292; Bossert. p 61, 387; DNB 55: 92; Kew 5: 212; NI 308. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 290-292. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 23. 1906. - Lovat-Fraser, Life of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute. 1912. - Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 35, 92. 1940. - Curtis, W. H., William Curtis 39, 50, 52, 82. 1941. - Hudfield, Pioneers in gardening 87-89. 1951. #### Eponymy *Butea* K. König ex Roxburgh (1792, *nom. cons.*); *Stewartia* Linnaeus (1753); *Stuartia* L'Héritier de Brutelle (1789, *orth. var.*) ### Publications ##### n.938. Botanical tables containing the different familys of British plants **Title** *Botanical tables containing the different familys of British plants* distinguish'd by a few obvious parts of fructification rang'd in a synoptical method. London \[1785\], 9 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. tabl. Brit, pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Only 12 copies issued, for private distribution (copies LL, BM, Windsor). The 566 (564?) hand-coloured plates are by Johann Sebastian Mueller alias John Miller (vols. 1-8). The 90 plates of volume 9 are identical with those of Mueller's *Illustration of the termini botanici of Linnaeus*, 1789 (q.v.). The date, 1785, is that written by Banks in the first volume of the British Museum copy. In addition to the nine quarto volumes of plates there is a text volume of 51 pages, entitled *Introduction to the general tables of plants*. "The cost of this imposing, but otherwise disappointing, work is said to have been over *£* 12.000" Blunt in GF p. 53. For a review of the contents see Dryander (1797); for a recent extensive description see Henrey 1398 (under Stuart). *Ref*.: Dawson p. 796; GF p. 53; Henrey 1398; Jackson p. 34; Kew 5: 212; NI 308; PR 1404. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. nat. hist. Banks 3: 132-133. 1797. - Hemsley, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1892: 306-308. - Britten, J. Bot. 54: 84-87. 1916.