> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 809](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069051) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5400-1) LSID 5400-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161222) QID Q3161222 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Lee, James (1715-1795), British nurseryman; partner with J. Kennedy at Vineyard nursery at Hammersmith; introduced plants from America and the Cape (introduced e.g. *Fuchsia coccinea*); correspondent of Linnaeus. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Lee* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Lee*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Correspondence with J. E. Smith at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 319-320; Barnhart 2: 360; BB p. 184; BM 3: 1078; Bossert p. 232; Dawson p. 526, 942; Desmond p. 378-379; DNB 32: 357-358; Dryander 3: 20, 100, 5: 320; Henrey 2: 726, 3: 72-73; Jackson p. 36, 571; Kew p. 395; Plesch p. 303; PR 5148 (ed. 1: 5656-5657); Rehder 5: 497; SO 453, 462, 2188-2192, 2548a. - Anon., Flora 8: 463-464. 1825; Gard. Chron. 1881(2):330-331. (in notice on Lisson Charles Lee. 1808-1881). - Berkeley, E. & D. Smith Berkeley, Dr. John Mitchell 235-236, 241, 245-246. 1974. - Darlington, W., Memorials 395. 1849. - Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(3): 72, 74. 1909, 1(7): 187. 1917. - Loudon, J. C., Arbor, frutic. brit. 1: 78. 1838. - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 567. 1963. - Smith, J. E., Memoir and Correspondence 2: 117, 183. 1832. - Webber, R., Early horticulturists 91-100. 1968 (potr.) (fide Desmond). - Willson, E. J., James Lee and the vineyard nursery Hammersmith. London (Hammersmith Local History Group) 1961 (portr.). - Witte, H., Floralia ix, x. De Fuchsia, 'sGravenhage 1882, p. 11-17 (story of Lee's acquisition of *Fuchsia coccinea*; very likely apocryphal). #### Eponymy *Leea* D. van Royen ex Linnaeus (1767, *nom. cons.*); *Leeoxylen* U. Prakash & R. Dayal (1964). *Note: Leeina* Petrak (1923) is dedicated to Henry Atherton Lee (1894-x), American mycologist. ### Publications ##### n.4289. An introduction to botany **Title** *An introduction to botany*. Containing an explanation of the theory of that science, and an interpretation of its technical terms. Extracted from the works of Dr. Linnaeus, and calculated to assist such as may be desirous of studying that author's method and improvements. With twelve copper plates, and two explanatory tables. To which is added an appendix; containing upwards of two thousand English names of plants, referred to their proper titles in the Linnaean system. By James Lee, Nursery Man, at the Vineyard, at Hammersmith. London: (printed for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand) 1760. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Intr. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Edition 1-6, 1760-1794 by James Lee; eds. 7-8 by Charles Stewart, \[9-9a\] by James Lee Jr. (1754-1824). *Ed*. \[*1*\]: Apr 1760 (Gent. Mag.), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-320, *pl. 1-12* with text (uncol. copp.). *Copies*: NY, USDA. *Ed. 2*: 1765, p. \[i\]-xv, \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-332, 449-479, *pl. 1-12* (id.). *Copy*: NY. – "The second edition. To which is added a glossary." London (id.) 1765. Oct. – See Jackson and Wiltshear on the discrepancy in the pagination. *Ed. 3*: 1776, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-432, *pl. 1-12* (id.). *Copies*: BR, MO, NY, USDA. – "*An introduction* ... science; extracted from the works of Dr. Linnaeus; with twelve copper-plates, two explanatory tables, an appendix and glossary. The third edition, corrected, with large additions... " London (Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, L. Davis, B. White, S. Crowder, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin.) 1776. Oct. – Contains a translation of Linnaeus's *Termini botanici*. *Ed. 4*: 1788, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-434, *pl. 1-12* (id.). *Copies*: MO, NY. "\[as ed. 3\]... The fourth edition..." London (printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, L. Davis, B. White, and son, S. Crowder, C. Dilly, C. G.J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin.) 1788. Oct. *Ed. 5*: 1794, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-434, *pl. 1-12* (id.). *Copies*: G, NY, USDA. "\[as ed. 3\]... The fifth edition, corrected..." London (printed for S. Crowder, C. Dilly, C. G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, R. Baldwin, S. Hayes, F. and C. Rivington, B. and J. White, Ogilvie and Speare, and Vernor and Hood.) 1794. Oct. *Ed*. "*4*": "London 1796" mentioned by Jackson (p. 36), does not exist, see Henrey 957. *Ed. 6*: 1796, p. xiii, \[iii\], 374, *pl. 1-12*, Edinburgh (James Symington), n.v., see Henry 957. *Ed*. \[*7*\] "*New edition*": 1799, p. \[i\]-xii, \[xiv-xvi\], \[1\]-374. *Copy*: MICH. – "... New edition, improved, corrected and enlarged; in which the arrangement of the classes and orders is rectified; the newly discovered genera added, from the last edition of the Systema naturae; the appendix is also amended and enlarged; and many trivial names supplied, particularly of West India plants. By Charles Stewart,..." Edinburgh (printed for Wm. Creech, and J. Symington; and T. Cadell, and W. Davies, London) 1799. Oct. (in fours). The Appendix to this edition was "amended and enlarged and many trivial names supplied, particularly of West Indian plants." (see also Wheldon & Wesley Cat. 131, 1974, no. 1168). *Ed*. \[*8*\] "*New edition*": 1806, Edinburgh (Mundell, Doig & Stevenson), xiii, \[iii\], 400, *pl. 1-12*, n.v., see Henrey 957. *Ed*. \[*9*\]: 20 Dec 1809 (plates), but book after 1 Mai 1810 (dedication p. iii). – "*An introduction to the science of botany*,... to which are added several new tables and notes, and a life of the author \[by Robert John Thornton\]..." Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged, by Mr. James Lee, son and successor to the author. London (printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; Wilkie and Robinson...) 1810. Oct., front, portr., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-580, *pl. 1-12* (uncol. copper engr. published 20 Dec 1809; drawn by Henderson). *Copy*: Zool. Mus. Amsterdam. *Ed*. \[*9a*\]. – "Ed. 4. corrected and enlarged", as ed. 9, but with cancel t.p. and a leaf with page numbers 'xv-xvi' and xvii-xviii, inserted in place of xv-xviii (see Henrey 961), front., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-580, *pl. 1-12.* *Copy*: AMD. The original work constituted the first treatise of the Linnaean system in England. To what extent it was a translation, by E. W. Gray, of Linnaeus's *Philosophia botanica* is not clear to us (see Wiltshear 1915). *Ref*.: Sherborn, C. D., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1: 141. 1760. - Jackson, B. D., J. Bot. 53: 66-67. 1915. - Wiltshear, F. G., J. Bot. 53: 112. 1915. ##### n.4290. Catalogue of plants and seeds **Title** *Catalogue of plants and seeds*, sold by Kennedy and Lee, nursery and seedsmen, at the Vineyard, Hammersmith. London (Sold by S. Hooper,...) 1774. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. seeds*. **Notes** *Co-author*: John Kennedy (1759-1842). *Publ*.: 1774, 76 p. *Copy*: Hammersmith Public library (see Willson (1961) (n.v.).