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aud made at least one journey into tte interior, in which he 

 reached Fez and Mequinez. Broussonnet sent specimens to the 

 chief botanists of his day — to Willdenow at Berlin, to Desfon- 

 taines at Paris, to Gouan at Montpellier, and to Cavanilles at 

 Madrid. Most of the latter were published by that excellent 

 botanist in the'Anales de Ciencias Naturales,' a now scarce peri- 

 odical which secured for Spain a temporary place in the republic 

 of science, which she did not long retain. A few of Broussonnet'a 

 plants were also published by Willdenow in his edition of the 

 * Species Plantarum ;' and a few others are referred to in Desfon- 

 taines's * Flora Atlantica;' but the greater part of his collections, 



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The results of the latter's study of that 

 collection form a portion of the materials, which we hope soon to 

 see published. "Unfortunately Broussonnet seems to have been 

 somewhat careless respecting the localities whence his specimens 

 came, and to have sometimes intermixed those from the Canary 

 Islands, Soutli Marocco, Tangier, and Spain. Several undoubted 

 errors that have been detected throw doubt on the authenticity 

 of his localities when unconfirmed by other authorities. 



About the time of Broussonnet's visits to Marocco Mr, Schous- 

 boe was appointed as Danish consular agent at Mogador, and 

 subsequently at Tangier. He was an active and intelligent ob- 

 server, who sludied carefully the vegetation of both the 

 districts above named. Besides this he collected a few plants 

 in the course of a journey in which he reached the city of 

 Marocco, and another which led him to Yez and Mequinez. He 

 was the author of the first attempt at a llora of Marocco, the 

 first portion of which, including the Linnean classes from Monan- 

 dria to Enneandria, with a few new species of other classes, was 

 published in Danish and in German in 1801. Unfortunately, the 

 work remained unfinished. Although Schousboe lived for many 

 years afterwards chiefly at Tangier, and added very largely to his 

 collections, I am not aware that he worked at the continuation of 

 the work, which, in the German edition, bears the title " Beob- 

 achtungen uber das Gewachsreich in Marokko." Schousboe s 

 herbarium is preserved at Copenhagen ; but the large collection 

 of his duplicates passed not long ago into the possession of M. 

 Cosson, who has liberally given sets of them to the Kew Herba- 

 rium and to myself. _ ^ . ... .t.„ Ai.i.xi5u;i:.„. 



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