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Manilla also yielded their treasures, and an excursion 
in the interior of the latter island convinced our Botanist 
that its luxuriant vegetation is replete with interest and 
novelty. 
The last herborization that Chamisso was able to under- 
take during this voyage, was at the Cape of Good Hope, 
when, accompanied by Mündtand Krebs, he detected several 
things that had not been. remarked in this part of the world. 
How many rich and verdant coasts was he compelled to pass, 
how many waving palms vainly beckoned him to come and 
examine their beauties, as the ship bore him away to sea. 
And together with suppressed wishes and fruitless regrets, 
how mortifying was often the spectacle, when the objects 
which he had collected with so much labour were destroyed, 
and his zeal for science was slighted. The only individual 
who entered at all into his tastes, though he possessed not 
the same energy in collecting, was Eschscholtz. -He too, 
gathered some plants and profited by the liberality of Cha- 
misso, who exchanged duplicates and gave him specimens of 
whatever he could spare.  Eschscholtz himself described 
only a few of his specimens, but as he communicated them 
to other writers, we find his Carices described by C. A. 
Meyer and some few other plants here and there = dido 
writers. l 
The expedition of the Rurick was one of no common im- 
portance and expense, but still Chamisso was obliged to 
publish his collections at his own cost. Returning to Prussia, 
his adopted country, he presented the zoological and mine- 
ralogical portion to the University Museum at Berlin, and 
commenced arranging his plants according to their places 
of growth and natural families; still uncertain how he should 
himself be able to lay them before the world, and yet willing 
to lend a helping hand to other naturalists, foreigners and 
others. In the year 1819 he gave his Ranunculacee to me, 
that I might render more perfect my Animadversiones Bo- 
tanice in Ranunculeas Candollii. Three new genera, natives of 
California and Chili, viz: Homanzoffia, Eschscholtzia, and. 
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