'i GUSTAVE THTJRET. 



R. coNni.oMKT^ATrs, Jllnrr. 

 /'■'if/u/c.'i.—l\-ti\er,Hiirh. Brit. Catal. (1713), t. ii., ii-. 3, 4; 

 Env:. Jiut.., t. 724 ("72. acuiiis "), reprod. (witli un alioration) 

 iu Syine E. Eot., viii., t. mccx. ; Lein:hton, Fl. Shropshire, 

 J). 153 (petals aiul fruit); Fl. Danica, xiii., t. 222H ; Sturm, 

 Deutsclil. FI., bd. 17, helt 73, t. 4; Keicheiib., Iconoj!:r. liot., 

 iv., t. 3G8 ("72. ///flwm/^?<.9"); Ileichenb., I.e., t. 367 ("7i!. 

 N^emolapathum") \ E. liot., t. 1533 ("7?. sanguineun'") roprod. 

 (with details of ^. nemorosun) in !Syme E. J^)t., viii., t. mccxi. 

 Exsicc. — Fries, Herb. Norm., ix., n. 57; Reichenb., Ex.sioe., r. 

 1378 (" 72. Ncmolapaikwi") ; liillot, n. 3766 ; Bourgeau, PI. 

 Canar., n. 963 & 964. 



R. NKMouosus, Schrad. (Ii. sanguineus, Jj , & E. viridia, Sibth ). 

 Figurca. — Fetiver, I.e., fipj. 5, 6 ; Curtis, Fl. Lond., fasc. 3* 



{^^ R. acutus") ((xcept details, whieh are 72. conglomerattis) ; 



Fl. Daniea, I.e., t. 2229; Leigliton, I.e., p. 153 (petals and 



fruit); Sturm, I.e., tt. 5 & 6 ; Nees, PI. Medic., t. 108 & 



(root) t. 109. 

 Exsicc. — Fries, Herb. Norm., i., n. 53 ; Billot, n. 3767. 



DESCRirTiDN OP Tad. 173. 

 Rnnicx rnpcstris, Lo Gall, from a small apocimon collected hy Mr. ArfhcT 

 J?rii<t<a at Hii^bury Bay, S. Devon. 1. Upper part of stem, in fruit 2. A root- 

 loaf. 3. Kipe "fruit." 4. A petal with the tubercle removed. .5. Nut. (The 

 detailp, as well a.s those of R. co)ujlonicr(itus and li. ncmorosus added at the upper 

 part of the plate, all X 4 diam.) 



GUSTAVE THURET. 



The loss of Gustavo Thuret will be deeply felt by all botanists. 

 For niorc! than thirty years he had been known to the scientific worhl 

 as a most accurate observer, whose writings combined a scientific pre- 

 cision and clearness with a rare beauty of style. As a friend he was 

 always genial and hospitable, ever ready to aid those interested in 

 his favourite pursuit, while, on the other hand, to those who differed 

 from his views he was always liberal and just. Few botanists have been 

 so uniformly fortunate as he. He was fortunate in his wealth, which 

 enabled him to devote his whole time to scientific study ; fortunate in his 

 amiability, wliich prevented personal enmities ; fortunate in his friends, 

 who aided him while living ; and especially fortunate in leaving a 

 successor capable of carrying on the work to which ho had devoted so 

 many years. 



Thuret sprang from a French family who, in consequence of their 

 adhesion to tlio Protestant faith, had been obliged to take refuge in 

 Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His fatlier, who 

 had been appointed Consul-General of Holland in France, took up his 

 residence in Paris, where Gustavo Adolphe was born, May 23rd, 1817. 

 His early education was conducted at home, and later he attended the 

 lectures of the Ecole de Droit, and in his twenty-first year received 



« Sir J. E. Smith (E. Flora., ii , 191, 192) strangely enough refers this cha- 

 racl eristic figure to his li. ucvlun (=^R. confflonuiulus). 



