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he discovered the same species altered by soil or situation, he seems 

 never to have neglected preserving it. Every specimen is named in 

 his own hand-writing, and the habitats noted, sometimes with ob- 

 servations : as for instance, Avith respect to his Phlomis Herba-venti, 

 of which Willdenow makes a new species Ph.jnmgetis, he observes 

 that a decoction of this plant is used by the Russians as one of the 

 best means of hardening steel. In this Herbarium I find the 

 greatest part of the plants figured in the Flora Sibirica of Gmelin ; 

 several very good specimens of that fine plant Campanula punc- 

 taia ; and those figured in Amman's Siirp. Rarior. with Cypripe- 

 dium giittatiim, which our President informed me he had never 

 been able to find in any other collection. 'J'he plants of Flora Ros- 

 sica, and those of Pallas's Travels; all his Astragali and Salsola, 

 and all the plants collected in his last tour in the Crimea are here, 

 besides a great number of new species not noticed in any of the 

 above-mentioned works, and which no doubt he intended to 

 have published in the continuation of that splendid work the 

 Flora Rossica, of which plates have been already engraved 

 sufficient, as I understand from Dr. Clarke, to make another 

 volume; and which, I hope, will soon make its appearance, as 

 it only waits for some bookseller to undertake it : some of these 

 plates are already cited by Professor Ceorgi in his Beachreibinig 

 des Russhchen Rcichs. I find Pallas, in the MS. to some of his 

 specimens, has changed their names from those published in 

 some of the volumes of the Petersburgh Transactions, and in his 

 own Travels, but for what reason I know not. He calls Phlomia 

 alphia, Lconuriis altaiciis; and SoUdago palmata, in the French 

 edition of his 'i'ravels, by Lamarck, in a note vol. vi. page 3>j9, 

 appears again in the same volume page l66, under the name of 

 Senecio palmatus, and in his Herbarium by that oi' Senecio davu- 

 mus; so that it requires some time and pains to make out his 



species.. 



