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PROM KEW BULL. 1927, App. $, p. 43 



De Candolle^s Plant arum succulentar-um hlstoria , copy in Kew 

 Garden Library - There are 187 plates, all of them acconpanied by 

 descriptive text. The arrangement of text and plates in this copy 

 is alphabetical, but there are a few exceptions: thus, the tv/o species 

 of Me s embr y anthemmn issued in the final part (livraison 31) are 



placed at the end of the other.- species of the genus, and hot in 

 alphabetical order. At the end of the second volume is a "Table 



des esp'feces contenues dans les trente premieres livraisons de 

 "L'Hist. des plantes grasses." V/e know that 31 livraisons were 



issued. The plates, all with text, contained in the 31st livraison 



are t. 172-177. 



The work terminated, itwou.ld appear, with the plate and text 

 of Mesembryanthemum crasslfolium (t. 177). That there should be 187 



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plates in a complete copy is explained by there being tv/o or more 



plates of certain species for which the same nuunber is em.ployed 



Thus, there are four plates illustrating varieties of Cactus Opuntia 





the text of which is numbered 138 and 138. 



The cause of the incompleteness of so many copies of this work is 



no doubt due to an interruption in its publication, which occurred after 



the issue of livraison 28, and this can be traced to a dispute between 

 A. ?• De Candolle and Garnery. ----- 



As already shown the v/ork was resumed and text to livraison 29-31 



was eventually published, that to 29-30 in 1832; 31 also probably in 

 1832 (see Aiiiii Sci. Nat. 2e ser. XVII, p. 295). The text of 3 of the 



plates in these livraisons was written by Candolle and that of the 



other 15 by Guillemin. 



