Mr. Lambert's Account of the Herbarium of Professor Pallas. 257 



sent to Pallas fine specimens of all the plants gathered during 

 his voyage with Cook. I find several species here not in his own 

 Herbarium, which I purchased some years ago from his father- 

 in-law Professor Heyne. 



All the plants collected in Billing's expedition, by Dr. Merke, 

 the naturalist employed in that voyage, and others, appear to be 

 here ; but I have not been able to find among them a celebrated 

 plant mentioned by Sauer in his account of that expedition, and 

 called there Zemlenoi Laudoii, or frankincense of the earth, (see 

 page 28,) unless it be Cachri/s odontalgica. Sir Joseph Banks sent 

 Pallas a fine collection of specimens, which were collected by him 

 and Dr. Solander in their celebrated voyage with Captain Cook. 

 There are also a great number of species from Professor Thun berg, 

 and Grecian plants from the late much lamented Dr. Sibthorp. 

 Among these is the true Hellebore of the ancients, found by him 

 on njount Olympus, the Helleborus officinalis of Dr. Smith's Pro- 

 dromus Florce Grcccce. I find also many plants of the Flora Au- 

 striaca from Jacquin, and several of Forskahl's, communicated 

 by Vahl. Cavanilles appears to have sent to Pallas many plants 

 from Spain. Here is also a curious collection from Persia, made 

 chiefly in the neighbourhood of Gilan by Gmelin ; and in it I ob- 

 serve the Ferula assufxtida, but without fructification. There are 

 many specimens of Russian plants from Gmelin, Georgi, and 

 others, all named and numbered according to their works, and 

 having synonyms of the older authors prefixed : also from Steller, 

 with names and numbers from his unpublished Flora Ochotensis 

 and other MS. works mentioned by Pallas in the preface to his 

 Flora Rossica. 



Pallas's plants of his own collecting are very rich in dupli- 

 cates ; of some there are as many as fifteen or twenty, in every 

 state he could find them both in flower and fruit; and whenever 



he 



