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lions, and the elegant, terse, and highly characteristic specific 

 phrases of this work are entirely due. TJiere is also the very 

 complete Newfoundland collection of La Pylaie, comprising 

 about 300 species, and a set of Berlandier's Texan and 

 Mexican plants, as well as numerous lierbaria less directly 

 connected with North American [)otany, which we have not 

 room to enumerate. Here, however, we do not find the 

 herbaria of several authors, which we siioulcl liave expected. 

 That of Lamarck, for instance, is in the possession of Prof. 

 Keeper at Rostock, on the shores of the Baltic; that of Poiret 

 belongs to Moquin-Tandon of Toulouse ; that of Bosc, to 

 Prof. Moretti of Pavia; and the proper herbarium of the 

 late Desfontaines, which, however, still remains at Paris, 

 now forms a part of the very large and valuable collections 

 of Mr Webb. The herbarium of Mr Webb, although of 

 recent establishment, is only second to that of Baron Deles- 

 sert; the two being far the largest private collections in 

 France, and comprising not only many older herbaria, 

 but also, as far as possible, full sets of the plants of recent 

 collectors. The former contains many of Michaux's plants, 

 (derived from the herbarium of Desfontaines,) a North Ame- 

 rican collection, sent by Nuttall to the late Mr Mercier of 

 Geneva, a full set of Drummond's collections in the United 

 States and Texas, &c. The latter also comprises many 

 plants of Michaux, derived from Ventenat's herbarium, com- 

 plete sets of Drummond's collections, &c. But a more im- 

 portant, because original and perhaps complete, set of the 

 plants of Michaux is found in the herbarium of the late 

 Kichard, now in the possession of his son Prof Achille 

 Richard, which even contains a few species that do not 

 exist in the herbarium at the Royal Museum, The her- 

 barium of the celebrated Jussieu, a fine collection, which 

 is scrupulously preserved in its original state, by his worthy 

 son and successor, Prof. Adrien Jussieu, comprises many 

 North American plants of the oldercoUectors, of which several 

 are authentic for species of Lamarck, Poiret, Cassini, &c. 



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