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ERYTHEA. 



a long expedition to Huacanuco, Chincliao and Cuchero. 

 On their return to Lima from this trip the party seem to 

 have all reunited and together made their way to Chile, 

 landing at Talcuano. In Chile they explored the Districts of 

 Concepcion, Itata, and Arauco, and the Provinces of Puc- 

 haeay, Maule, San Fernando, Rancagua, Santiago and 

 Quillota. This Chilian expedition consumed two years 

 and Its fruits were fifty-six boxes of plants, which were 



them 



coast of Portugal. But fortunately most of them were du- 

 plicated m the collection of Dombey, which providentially 

 had been separated. In 1785 another calamity fell upon 

 -- and on us. For the house where they were stopping 

 was destroyed by fire, and with it immense collections which 

 they had made in the vicinity of Lima. In 1788 thev 

 embarked from Lima for Spain, taking with them twenty- 

 nine boxes of dried plants, one hundred and twenty-four 

 living plants, and many drawings; and in September of that 

 year they arrived at Cadiz. 



The results of this expedition were published in four large 

 volumes _ with very many plates on steel. To us as Ameri- 

 cans it IS interesting to learn that the Spanish colonies in 

 this hemisphere largely defrayed the immense cost of publi- 

 cation by liberal contributions. 



The first of these volumes was entitled: "Florae Peru- 

 Tianae, et Chilensis Prodromus, sive Novarum Generum 

 I'lantarum Peruvianarum, et Chilensium Descriptiones, et 

 Icones. Por Don Hipolito Euiz y Don Joseph Pavon, 

 Bo tanicos de a Expedicion del Peru, y de la Eeal Academia 

 Medica de Madrid. De Orden del Key. Madrid: En la 

 Imprenta de Sancha. M. DCCXCTV " 



fifty 



new, and each is illustrated with beautiful figures The 



^c^L and tb ''^''''''^''-'' growing in our immediate 

 vicinity, and these seem to be Navarretla Pilio ts ^ ■ 

 Tessaria, and Soliva- ^^^varietia, Gilia, Bowlesia, 



