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vipon 10 years'' experience, if not more, but liis book mentioned luis 

 both in Engliuul and abroad gained general praise and is a jewel and 

 it master[)iece, in the whole of gardening, both in theory and practice 

 it has hardly its equal, so that having it, one can witliout much harm 

 dispense with all others. I only regret that we in our language have 

 as yet no translation, either of the entire work or at least the most 

 important parts ; it has already been translated into both French and 

 Grennan," 



The author then speaks of the medicinal plants brought back, 

 which he is presenting to the Academic Botanic Garden ; the seeds 

 in succeeding pages of his catalogue may be sown in the forthcoming 

 autuum or following spring ; he ends with the hope of leisure time to 

 draw up his account of his recent travels. 



The catalogue is alphabetically arranged, beginning with three 

 species of Abies, with Miller's names, presumably from the 5th edition 

 of his Dicfioiia)'!/, 1747. as the Gth edition did not appear till the 

 following year. In all, 12G numbers are given with comments. A 

 few remarks on the difference between the climate in the Carolinas 

 and that of Sweden, closes the pamphlet. A list of the modern names 

 will be found in Hjelt's NaturaJhisforiens studium vid Abo uni- 

 versitet, Helsingfors, 189'), pp. 209-211. ^ 



I have failed to find another copy, in the British Museum at 

 Bloomsbury or Cromwell Road, or at Kew. Pritzel does not mention 

 it, nor is it catalogued in the last Libraiy Catalogue of the Linnean 

 Society, 1896. It camo to light in preparing the new edition for 

 printing in the near future, amongst the Linnean volumes, bound 

 amongst some numbers of the Ldrda TUlnincjar, 1745-52. 



[La Seree, Vitalis de.] Catalogue des Plantes d'usage, suivant 

 I'order de leurs Vertus. 68 pages, sm. 8^ [Parisiis, 1737.] 



This has no titlepage, but on the top of the page Linnseus has 

 written " La Serre Hortus plantarum otticinalium privatus parisiis." 

 This is the copy I noted in my Sfudenfs Guide to the Literature of 

 Botany, p. 31, as follows : — " The only copy known to me wants the 

 titlepage ; it commences with page 1 . . . . It quotes Boerhaave's 

 'Index alter' 1720, so must be somewhat later than that." 



As this little volume came again into consideration for the new 

 book-catalogue of the Linnean Society, its author naturally was the 

 object of enquiry. There was a Dr. La Serre, spoken of by Prof. 

 T.M. Pries, as a physician and naturalist and an intimate friend of 

 the Jussieu family (Linne, i. p. 246). At a later date he is mentioned 

 by Bernard de Jussieu in a letter to Linnaeus, 20th July, 1740, as 

 '• . . . our friend the good Father La Serre . . .," printed in Sir J. E. 

 Smith's Gorresponde)ice of Liiniaus, ii. 212, and again on p. 216, 

 " Father La Serre, the former companion of our journey embraces 

 vou Avith all his heart"; finally on p. 218 we find " the botanical 

 surgeon La Serre embraces you with both arms." 



Mr. Spencer Savage has found a MS. entry in an interleaved copy 

 of Linnzeus's Bibliotheca botanica, 1736, which supplies further in- 

 formation, thus: — "de Laserre, Titalis. Habuit hortum officinalium 

 parisiis. Catalogus pi. usualium. Paris, 1737, p. 60. Gallico-latine." 



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