120 THE .TOuiiXAT; or rotany 



consists of four parts, the first of which (pp. 1-51) is headed : " Denom- 

 brement des Plantes que Mons. Tournefort a,trouvees en Catalogne"; 

 this is followed by the sub-heading quoted by Lapeyrouse (/. c.) 

 " Dans le lloussillon autour de Perpignan," which relates only to 

 nos. 1-58 ; the P\'renean plants enumerated by Lapeyrouse extend, as 

 has been said, to n. 417, after which come lists of plants found about 

 Barcelona and in places visited thence. On pp. 81-43 is a detailed 

 description of the botany of Montserrat, beginning with the ascent 

 and including the various parts of the range ; the introductory para- 

 graph may be quoted : — 



" Septem leucis a Barcinone, qufe caput est Catalonia? occurrit 

 Pulcherrimus Mons ab incolis Serratus appellatus ; eo quod, ut 

 aiunt, ejus, cacumen dividatur in apices excelsos acutos, qui serrarum 

 dentes quodani modo referant. Copiose in ipso nascuntur rariores 

 plant*, etiam enorum [errorum] quam Botanicorum peregrinanti- 

 bus magis celebretur ; nonnullas ex his descripsit olim Pranciscus 

 Myconi [IVf_yconus] Ausoniensis [de Vic] Medicus, qui Barcinone 

 degebat ante pluros annos, quas hodie plane ignoramus [igno- 

 raremus] nisi ad .lacobum Dalecampium [egregius ille virj eas 

 perhumane misisset." 



The name " Myconi " is in another hand : the reference is to 

 Pranciseo Mice (b. 1528) about whom a note may be forthcoming 

 later. Linnaeus (Sp. PL 179) named in his honour Verbascum mi/- 

 coni which Lapeyrouse {op. cit. 115) raised to the rank of a genus as 

 Myconia, on the ground that it " ne pent pas rester parmi les Ter- 

 hasciom, oil Linnoeus [s«c] I'a placee," adding " II est juste que le 

 genre qu'elle doit former porte le nom du Botaniste qui I'a trouvee 

 le premier." This appropriate dedication was unfortunately fore- 

 stalled by the creation of Miconia by Kuiz and Pavon (Prodi-, p. 60 : 

 1794) : the occurrence is all the more regrettable in that Hamond 

 (after whom the genus was subsequently named) was, according to 

 Lapeyrouse {op. cit. xxxiii.) by no means deserving of the honcjui-. 

 The passage copied above from the MS. is of interest as showing that 

 the Banksian transcription cannot be accepted as textualh' accurate 

 in detail: Lapeyrouse (/. c.) also transcribes the passage (in part) 

 from the Topogrnphie, and I have placed in brackets the differences 

 which exist between this and the Banksian MS. 



The second section of the MS. (pp. 53-63), which is separated 

 from the preceding by a blank page, is headed " Denombrement des 

 plantes que j'ay trouvees de Barcelonne a Valence et dans ce Koyaume 

 dans les mois d'Aoum [automne] 7*"''^ et 8'^''^." Neither in this nor 

 the preceding list is the year mentioned, but Lapeyrouse gives 

 1780 — -which according to Colmeiro should be 1781 — for the first 

 part, and this may be accepted as correct. 



The third section (pp. 64-151) is headed "Denombrement des 

 Plantes que Mons. Tournefort a trouvees en Espagne et Portugal au 

 voyage enterpris au mois d'8^'"« 1688 par I'ordre de Monsieur de 

 Louvois." The principal lists are those from Granada, Cadiz (Gades), 

 and Gibraltar; the plants collected "in monte Calpe" (pp. 104-109) 

 are in part identified and enumerated by Major WoUey-Dod in his 

 ■ Flora of Gihroltar (Journ. Bot. 1914, Suppl. iv.) 



The fovu-th section is that alreadv I'eferred to as having been 



