16 HERBARIA SALE. [January, 



This M. Gerard was gardener to the Royal family of France when the 

 first revolution broke out. After his Eoyal master lost both crown and life, 

 he fled over to England, and lived in humble circumstances, and for many 

 years collected plants for botanists, and medicinal herbs for sale. At his 

 death, in 1840, his enormous stock-in-trade was dispersed. This lot 

 formed a portion of his collection, and sold for one pound. 



14. Ferns. The genus Asplenium, illustrated by several hundred 

 specimens, from most parts of the world, all named and localized, including 

 sub-species, varieties, and some few duplicates, £1. 10s. 



15. The genus Aspidium, similarly illustrated, £1. 4«. 



21. Folygula. The genus Poly gala, extensively illustrated by several 

 hundred specimens from most parts of the world, all named and localized, 

 £1. 3s. 



42. Rare British (chiefly Essex), ex. herb. Christy, 4s. 



46. Portugal. Dr. Welwitsch's plants of Portugal, a fine set of plants, 

 all named, and in the best possible condition, about three hundred species, 

 £1. 3s. 



61. Plants collected by Mr. Edward Eorster, chiefly Essex, 5s. M. 



62. Plants, various, by the same botanist, 45. 



71. British plants. A large number of rare and interesting British 

 plants, chiefly collected by Edward Forster and his friends, 5s. 6rf. 



72. A collection of duplicates of British plants, various, 3s. 



90. Buckley's plants of Alabama, U.S., and neighbouring States, about 

 three hundred species, all named ; one bundle, 7s. 6c?. 



91. A collection of dried plants, from various parts of the world, and 

 from noted botanical gardens, nearly all named, many with notes in the 

 handwriting of the late Professor David Don, Mr. A. B. Lambert (in 

 whose herbarium they formerly were), and others, in all about a thousand 

 fastened down on herbarium paper, in five large bundles, £1. 9s. 



103. Edward Forster. A very large number of interesting and rare 

 British plants, collected by Mr. Forster and his brothers, during their 

 botanizing journeys, or communicated to him by his friends ; the most 

 of the tickets bear his own autograph, and here and there interesting 

 notes and criticisms. Many of them are the very plants from which the 

 drawings in Sowerby's ' English Botany' were originally made. £1. 2s. 



150. Avery curious old herbarium, one folio volume; apparently collected 

 by some Dutch botanist of note. It contains plants from various sources, 

 but principally from the Botanic Garden at Leyden (?). The tickets are 

 difficult to decipher, but the dates thereon are plain enough : 1634, 1635, 

 and 1636 ! There accompanies this botanical curiosity a very interesting 

 letter (to its former possessor, the late Dean Buckland) by the Rev. Gerard 

 Smith, partly describing it. This volume contains Orchis hircina and 

 numerous other rare specimens. Although in a very poor state, yet, such 



