64 Lagrange's Memoirs. 



mens at their base ; staminate scales ovate and rather obtuse ; fruit 

 ovate, convex above, narrowed and scabrous above, rostrate and 

 two-toothed ; pistillate scale ovate-lanceolate, tawny, about two- 

 thirds as long as the fruit ; color of the plant a fine green. 



Found along fences and hedges, not very abundant ; confounded 

 heretofore with C. fcenea, C. straminea, or C. festucacea. From 

 the first two it is widely separated by its fruit and scale, and general 

 habit, and from the last by the shape of its spikelets especially, as 

 those of C. festucacea are clubform. 



Figures of the following species are given in this volume. 



C. blepharophora, Gray. Fig. 85. 



stenolepis, Torrey. 86. 



Shortiana, Dewey. , 87. 



Careyana, Torrey. 88. 



Greenland, Dewey. '89. 



Columbiana, Dewey. 90. 



Houghtoniana, Dewey. 91. 



mirabilis, Dewey. 92. 



siccata, Dewey, Vol. x. p. 278. 93. 



Art. VIII. — Notice sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. le Comte 

 Lagrange ; par M. le Chevalier Delambre, Secretaire Perpetuel 

 de T Institut Royal de France. (Lue le 3 Janvier, 1814.) 



(Translated and communicated for this Journal by F. Furbcr, Boston, Mass.) 



Joseph Louis Lagrange, one of the founders of the Academy 

 of Turin, Director during twenty years of the Academy of Berlin, 

 for the physico-mathematical sciences, Foreign Associate of the Acad- 

 emy of sciences of Paris, member of the Institute of France and of 

 the board of longitude, Senator and Count of the Empire, Grand Of- 

 ficer of the Legion of Honor and Grand Cross of the imperial order 

 of the reunion, was bom at Turin on the 25th of January 1736. His 

 father was Joseph Louis Lagrange, Treasurer of War : his mother, 

 Maria Theresa Gros, only daughter of a wealthy physician of Cam- 

 biano. 



His great-grandfather, captain of cavalry in the service of France, 

 had gone over to that of Emmanual II, King of Sardinia. Through 

 the latter he was fixed at Turin, by marriage with a lady Conti } of 



