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NOTES TO BOOK XVI. 



(Q.) p. 376. To what is here said of Botanical Gar- 

 dens and Botanical Writers, between the times of Csesal- 

 pinus and Morison, I may add a few circumstances. The 

 first academical garden in France was that at Montpellier, 

 which was established by Peter Bichier de Belleval, at the 

 end of the sixteenth century. About the same period, rare 

 flowers were cultivated at Paris, and pictures of them 

 made, in order to supply the embroiderers of the court- 

 robes with new patterns. Thus figures of the most beau- 

 tiful flowers in the garden of Peter Robins were published 

 by the court-embroiderer Peter Vallet, in 1608, under the 

 title of Le Jar din du Roi Henry IV. But Robins' works 

 were of great service to botany ; and his garden assisted 

 the studies of Renealmus (Paul Reneaulme), whose Spe- 

 cimen Historic^ Plantarum (Paris, 1611,) is highly spoken 

 of by the best botanists. Recently, Mr. Robert Brown 

 has named after him a new genus of Iridece (RENEALMIA) ; 

 adding, cc Dixi in memoriam PAULI RENEALMI, botanici sui 

 sevi accuratissimi, atque staminum primi scrutatoris ; qui 

 non modo eorum numerum et situm, sed etiam filamen- 

 torum proportionem passim descripsit, et characterem 

 tetradynamicum siliquosarum perspexit. (Prodromus Florce 

 Novce Hollandice, p. 448.) 



The oldest Botanical Garden in England is that at 

 Hampton Court, founded by Queen Elizabeth, and much 

 enriched by Charles II. and William III. (Sprengel. Gesch. 

 d. Rot vol. n. p. 96.) 



