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HorJcelia, Eeichb., have yielded to that propounded by Horkel a& 

 WoJffia, for the tiniest Duckweed. Five years later he published 

 a paper of twenty pages on the parallel variations of several 

 European species of Verbascum, in the ' Bulletin de la Societe 

 botanique de Prance,' xvi. (1869), a subject to which he con- 

 tinued to give much attention. In 1872, through the same 

 channel, he contributed notes upon introduced plants in his native 

 department. ' Etudes sur les Verbascum de la France et de 

 I'Europe centrale' came out at A'^endome in 1875; in which year 

 he became more widely known by his association with Dr. Louis 

 Savatier, whose collections made in Japan were worked up jointly, 

 as ' Enumeratio plantarum in Japonia sponte crescentium ' Parisiis^ 

 1875-79, three parts forming two volumes in octavo. This formed 

 the point of departure for his studies in the botany of the extreme 

 East, which ended only with his death. The expedition of Kevoil 

 to Soraaliland resulted in the plants collected being placed in the 

 hands of Eranchet to work out ; his contribution forming the 

 ' Sertulum Somalense ' in Eevoil's ' Mission au Pays Comalis,' 

 Paris, 1882. 



His long connection with Cour-Cheverny ended in 1880; in 

 1881 he came to Paris, and there he fixed his place of abode for 

 the rest of his life. The Museum d'Histoire Naturelle employed 

 two auxiliary botanists for some time : Sagot was one, Eranchet 

 the other. The post was ouly temporary, for the " credit " was 

 exhausted in a few years, and in 1885 Eranchet found himself 

 adrift, without settled occupation or means to support himself 

 and family. Happily for him, and the botanic world also, 

 M. Drake del Castillo installed him as curator of his botanic 

 collections in the Eue Balzac ; three days he devoted to these 

 collections, the other three he worked in the Museum Herbarium. 

 The year 1886 brought him a small addition to his income a» 

 "■ Repetiteur de Botanique des Hautes-Etudes.' 



Meantime he had continued his studies of Asiatic botany, in 

 1883 llnishing an account of the plants of Turkestan brought back 

 by M. Capus, which account ran through four volumes of the 

 ' Annales des Sciences jSTaturelles, Botanique.' His ' Catalogue 

 des Plantes recueillies aux environs de Tche-tou par A. A. Eauvel,' 

 issued by the Cherbourg Scientific Society in 1884, launched him 

 into the world of Chinese plants, immediately followed by his 

 important ' Plantae Davidianos,' which formed part of five volumes 

 OL the •' Nouvelles Archives ' of the Museum : the first portion 

 devoted to Mongolian plants, the second to Eastern Thibet (the 

 province of Mupin), 1884-88. The fruit of his long study of 

 the local flora of Blois and its neighbourhood resulted in his 

 ' Flore de Loir-et-Cher ' in 1885, a thick octavo. 



The plants collected by the Abbe Delavay in Yunnan were 

 studied by Eranchet, and three fasciculi of plates and text were 

 issued in 1889-90. Thenceforward, most of his papers came 

 out in the ' Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris ' : a 

 monograph of Paris in the Centennial volume published in 1888, 



