368 iin . Mr. LAMBERT’s Account of 
he discovered the same species altered by soil or situation, heseems 
never to have neglected preservingit. Every specimen is named in 
his own hand-writing, and the habitats noted, sometimes with ob- 
servations: as for instance, with respect to his Phlomis Herba-venti, 
of which Willdenow makes a new species Ph. pungens, he observes 
that a decoction of this plantis used by the Russians as one of the 
best means of hardening steel. In this Herbarium I find the 
greatest part of the plants figured in the Flora Sibirica of Gmelin ; 
several very good specimens of that fine plant Campanula punc- 
tata; and those figured in Amman's Stirp. Rarior. with Cypripe- 
dium guttatum, which our President informed me he had never 
been able to find in any other collection. The plants of Flora Ros- 
sica, and those of Pallas's Travels; all his 4stragali and Salsole, 
and all the plants collected in his last tour in the Crimea are here, 
besides a great number of new species not noticed in any of the 
above-mentioned works, and which no doubt he intended to 
have published in the continuation’ of that splendid work the 
Flora Rossica, of which plates bave been already engraved 
sufficient, as I understand from Dr. Clarke, to make another 
volume; and which, I hope, will soon. make its appearance, as 
it only waits for some bookseller to undertake it: some of these 
plates are already cited by Professor Georgi in his Beschr 'eibung 
des Russischen Reichs. 1 find Pallas, in the MS. to some of his 
specimens, has changed their names from those published in 
some of the volumes of the Petersburgh 'l'ransactions, and in his 
own Travels, but for what reason I know not... He calls Phlomis 
alpina, Leonurus altaicus; and Solidago palmata, in the French 
edition of his T ravels, by Lamarck, in a note vol. vi. page 399, 
appears again in the same volume page 166, under the name of 
Senecio palmatus, and in - his Herbarium by that of Senecio davu-~ 
nicus ; so.that it requires some time and pains to. make out his 
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