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second of descriptive matter relating to the Granadan flora. 
Among the species he brought to light was the Abies Pin- 
sapo, the beautiful Fir-tree now so well known in cultiva- 
tion. His narrative, besides its botanical interest, is charm- 
ing reading. 
In 1842, after his marriage to his cousin, of the De la Rive 
family, he traveled with his wife in Greece, Anatolia, Syria, 
and Egypt. It was to his dear companion that he dedicated 
two of their joint discoveries, Omphalodes Lucilie and 
Chionodoxa Luciliw. ‘In 1849 he experienced the great 
sorrow of his life in her death from typhoid fever, during a 
second journey in the south of Spain. Between 1842 and 
1854 he published the first series of his “* Diagnoses Planta- 
rum Orientalium Novarum,” filling two volumes, and in 1855 
the second series of almost equal extent; in 1848 he com- 
pleted his monograph of the Plumbaginacee ; in 1862 he 
promptly finished his conscientious elaboration of the great 
genus Euphorbia for De Candolle’s “ Prodromus,” and in 1866 
brought out the “ Iecones Euphorbiarum,” of one hundred and 
twenty folio plates from outline drawings by Heyland. In 
1881 he made a trip to Norway with his associate Reuter. 
Not to mention other journeys, he was again in Spain and 
adjacent countries in 1877, and lastly in 1881, his eighth 
visit, — then in wretched health. Passing by scattered papers 
of his, we come to his great work, the “ Flora Orientalis,” in 
five octavo volumes. It comprehends Greece and Turkey up 
to Dalmatia and the Balkans; the Crimea; Egypt up to the _ 
first cataracts; northern Arabia down to the tropical line ; 
Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, and Mesopotamia; Turkestan 
up to 45° of latitude, Persia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan 
— that is, up to the borders of India. The first volume was 
published in 1867; the fifth, in 1884, brings the work down 
to its conclusion with the Pteridophytes ; and the manuscript 
for a supplementary volume, for recent discoveries and some 
reélaboration, was about half finished when he laid down his 
pen under an attack seemingly no worse than the many he 
had recovered from, but which now terminated his earthly 
life. 
