nefort, and these still remain, with his hand-writing an- 
nexed, in the collections at Paris. Lister, who visited 
Plumier in his cell, in the convent of Minims, at Paris, 
speaks of his obliging and communicative manners, and 
of his * designs and paintings of plants, birds, fishes, and 
insects, of the West Indies, all done by himself very ac- 
curately” It appears that, notwithstanding the royal 
** favour, he was obliged to solicit repeatedly, and mostly 
** in vain, for the publication of his drawings at the King's 
** printing press; so imperfect is Government for science on 
* all occasions, and in all countries." Smith in Reess 
cyclop. in loc. 
—— 
We are requested by Mr. Lambert to say, that the Ptv- 
MERIA tricolor (fol. 510) of this work, is a native of Mexico, 
and not generally of the West Indies, as stated in the 
above article. It was observed in Mexico, by Mr. Bullock, 
in a late visit to that country, as being much cultivated for 
the sake of ornament. 
NOTE. 
Galega grandiflora (fol. 769 of the work) is recorded in the Synopsis 
Plantarum of Persoon, under the generic head TEPHROSIA ; where GALEGA 
rosea of Lamarck is added as a probable synonym. 
TEPHROSIA is distinguished from GALEGA princely Py having “a 
compressed leathery pod,” instead of “ a knobbed cylindrical pod ;” be- 
sides the difference in habit. But GALEGA grandiflora is no more reducible to 
TEPHROSIA, as now composed, than to GALEGA ; and the change of name 
without a complete reform of the whole group huddled together under GA- 
LEGA is utterly useless, if not worse. 
