French Natkval Inst'itiitc. S-5 



among (he flcs-h tlic flnx slops; but always the surest way 

 is to lie the vessel before cullirc it. thus across*"." 



*'Deindc partes utrinquc. filo ligare, cc transversum totunjL 

 vas prescindere t«" 



JoHM Tauntox, 



Surgeon to t!ic City aud Fins'niry Dis- 



pcns:iri<'3, Lecturer on Anatomy, 

 Siiigcry, Pliyaiology, &c. 

 Greville-street, Hatton-^arden, 

 Octuhti- ^3, lyOT. 



yH'V . Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



FRENCH NATIONAL INSTIXaXE. 

 [Continued from vol. xxviii. p. 372.] 



VV Hii.K a noble spirit of rivalship pervades the candi- 

 dates, tlie botanists who are members of the c],ass, by con- 

 tinuing their labours, have shown themselves worthy of being 

 the chief judges of this great assembly. 



M. Ventenat is proceeding with his work upon the Garden 

 of Malmaison. A new number, being the 20th, has recently 

 appeared. 



The first of the species which are there described is a su- 

 perb original leguminous plant from Botanv Bay, and which 

 presents in the organs of fructification characters which have 

 not been as yet observed in the vegetables of this family. 

 !M. Ventenat does not hesitate to make a new genus of it, 

 to which he has referred a species also cultivated at Mal- 

 maison, although it has not as yet flourished ; but it resem- 

 bles the former so much in its appearance, that it is almost 

 certain it nuist conform to it in the organs of fructifica- 

 tion. 



r The sccontl of these species is an original malvaeeous 

 plant from the Canaries, the flowers of which are as large 

 as those of the garden ketmia, aud are of a fire-red colour, 

 which is extremely rare in the plants of this family. This 

 work of M. Ventenat must occasion the friends of science 



* Paret. | Fabric! us, 



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