and figured, M. Lasiitarpiers, who originally described 
it, attached the name of the recovered Naturalist, as much 
out of compliment to him, as with a view to perpetuate 
the remembrance of the circumstances under which it had 
been discovered. 
“ At the little spring of water,—a rare discovery in the 
midst of an arid waste,—he passed the first night, and the 
next day was wholly spent in a fruitless attempt to gain the 
landing-place. ‘In all this painful peregrination,’ says 
Laprituarpiere, ‘ M. Ricue did not meet with a drop of 
water, although he saw in those wilds, at some distance 
from him, Emus, Kangaroos, and even some of the abori- 
ginal inhabitants, who, however, fled before him as he 
advanced :—but chance (rather, a kind Providence) happily 
conducted him in the evening to the same little rill, where 
he spent a second night.’ Notwithstanding the distress to 
which his situation had reduced him, exposed as he was to 
all the horrors of famine, M. Ricue carried during these two 
days ‘a numerous collection of very interesting produc- 
tions’ of the country he had traversed ; ‘ but during the 
third day, his strength sunk so rapidly,’ before he reached 
the boats, that ‘ he was obliged to abandon the whole collec- 
tion, not being able to reserve even the most precious arti- 
cles.’ 
“* This first landing on the inhospitable shores of Nuyt’s 
Land by the French was not, however, wholly lost to 
science ; for M. Lasitiarpiere, amidst his anxiety to urge 
the prosecution of the search for his lost countryman, did not 
fail to make some observation on the few birds that inhabit 
the shores, nor to form some little collection of the fine plants 
which, notwithstanding the aridity of the soil, were never- 
theless able to maintain an existence. Thus, among other 
plants, with which that painful excursion first made us 
acquainted, may be enumerated, besides our Leucorocon, 
Banxsia repens and nivea ; Cuorizema ticifolia ; Kucatye- 
Tus cornuta and Anicgozantuus rufa. The last notice we 
find of M. Ricue, after his return to France, is from Lasit- 
LARDIERE himself: namely, ‘ that he fell a victim to his love 
for science, having made, when already in a very advanced 
stage of consumption, a long and fatiguing journey, m 
which he consulted his scientific zeal, more than the state 
of his health.’ : 
“ Mr. Brown has substantially perpetuated his memory, 
by giving his name to a very singular plant likewise of this 
Order, growing abundantly on the summit and ie ve! 
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