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and made at least one journey into the interior, in which he 
reached Fez and Mequinez. Broussonnet sent specimens to the 
chief botanists of his day—to Willdenow at Berlin, to Desfon- 
taines at Paris, to Gouan at Montpellier, and to Cavanilles at 
Madrid. Most of the latter were published by that excellent 
botanist in the‘ Anales de Ciencias Naturales,’ a now scarce peri- 
odical which secured for Spain a temporary place in the republic 
of science, which she did not Ieng retain. A few of Broussonnet’s 
plants were also published by Willdenow in his edition of the 
‘Species Plantarum ;’ and a few others are referred to in Desfon- 
taines’s ‘ Flora Atlantica ;’ but the greater part of his collections, 
now in the museum at Montpellier, remained unexamined until 
M. Cosson visited that city. The results of the latter’s study of that 
collection form a portion of the materials, which we hope scon to 
see published. Unfortunately Broussonnet seems to have been 
somewhat careless respecting the localities whence his specimens 
came, and to have sometimes intermixed those from the Canary 
Islands, South Marocco, Tangier, and Spain. Several undoubted 
errors that have been detected throw doubt on the authenticity 
of his localities when unconfirmed by other authorities. 
About the time of Broussonnet’s visits to Marocco Mr. Schous- 
boe was appointed as Danish consular agent at Mogador, and 
subsequently at Tangier. He was an active and intelligent ob- 
server, who studied carefully the vegetation of both the 
districts above named. Besides this he collected a few plants 
in the course of a journey in which he reached the city of 
Marocco, and another which led him to ¥ez and Mequinez. He 
was the author of the first attempt at a Flora of Marocco, the 
first portion of which, including the Linnean classes from Monan- 
dria to Enneandria, with a few new species of other classes, was 
published in Danish and in German in 1801. Unfortunately, the 
work remained unfinished. Although Schousboe lived for many 
years afterwards chiefly at Tangier, and added very largely to his 
collections, I am not aware that he worked at the continuation of 
the work, which, in the German edition, bears the title “ Beob- 
achtungen iiber das Gewiichsreich in Marokko.’’ Schousboe’s 
herbarium is preserved at Copenhagen; but the large collection 
of his duplicates passed not long ago into the possession of M. 
Cosson, who has liberally given sets of them to the Kew Herba- 
rium aud to myself. ; 
Early in this century a French ecclesiastic, the Abbé Philippe 
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