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La Plata and Parana. Tiveedie. — Our specimens from Mr 

 Tvveedie are indifferent, yet we think we are right in referring 

 his plant to P. silphioides, 



1118. (I.) Euxenia (/rato [Cham. Hor. Phys. BeroL p. 75, 

 t. 16); foliis late ovatis in petiolum non decurrentibus. DC. 

 Prodr. V. p. 501. Hook, et Am. in Beech. Voy. p. 57. Ogiera 

 triplinervia, Spr. Podanthus ovatifolius, Lag. — Conception. 

 Beechey. Cuming, {n. 131). 



1119. (2.) E. Mitiqiii {De Cand. Prodr. v. p. 501); foliis 

 ovali-lanceolatis basi longe cuneatis apice acuminatis medio 

 grosse serratis. DC. — Podanthus Mitiqui. Lindl. in De 



Cand. Prodr, et in Herb, nostr Chili. Lindl. Valparaiso. 



Bridges («. 496). Buenos Ayres and Entro Rios (cultivated) 

 Tweedie. — De Candolle notices a var. (3, subintegerrima, of 

 this species, which is the Grcsmia aromatica, Poepp. PI. Ex- 

 sicc. n, 208. (non Hook,), a native also of Chili. 



1120. (1.) Acsiiwhos^evmum xayithoides {DC. Prodr. V. p. 

 501.) — Centrospermum xanthoides, H.B.K. Nov. Gen. Am. 

 iv. p. 271. t. 397. — Salt plains of Buenos Ayres («. 739), 

 and at Cordova (n. 1127). Tiveedie. 



(To he continued.) 



IV. — Historical Eidogium on the late M. A. Laurent de 

 JussiEu ; translated from the French of M. Flourens, 

 Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences. 



IWiih a Portrait.] 



The Jussieu family belongs originally to the little town of 

 Montrolier, situated amid the mountains of the Lyonnais. 

 One member of this family came to settle at Lyons towards 

 the year 1680, there to practise Pharmacy. He married, 

 and was the father of sixteen children, three of whom, An- 

 toine, Bernard, and Joseph de Jussieu, have been the most 

 celebrated Botanists of the 18th century. 



The eldest of all this numerous and gifted family was called 



