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second of descriptive matter relating to the Granadan flora. 

 Among the species he brought to light was the Abies Pin- 

 sapo, the beautiful Fir-tree now so well known in cultiva- 

 tion. His narrative, besides its botanical interest, is charm- 

 ing reading. 



In 1842, after his marriage to his cousin, of the De la Rive 

 family, he traveled with his wife in Greece, Anatolia, Syria, 

 and Egypt. It was to his dear companion that he dedicated 

 two of their joint discoveries, Omphalodes Lucilice and 

 Chionodoxa Lucilice. In 1849 he experienced the great 

 sorrow of his life in her death from typhoid fever, during a 

 second journey in the south of Spain. Between 1842 and 

 1854 he published the first series of his " Diagnoses Planta- 

 rum Orientalium No varum," filling two volumes, and in 1855 

 the second series of almost equal extent ; in 1848 he com- 

 pleted his monograph of the Plumbaginacece ; in 1862 he 

 promptly finished his conscientious elaboration of the great 

 genus Euphorbia for De Candolle's " Prodromus," and in 1866 

 brought out the " Icones Euphorbiarum," of one hundred and 

 twenty folio plates from outline drawings by Heyland. In 

 1881 he made a trip to Norway with his associate Reuter. 

 Not to mention other journeys, he was again in Spain and 

 adjacent countries in 1877, and lastly in 1881, his eighth 

 visit, — then in wretched health. Passing by scattered papers 

 of his, we come to his great work, the " Flora Orientalis," in 

 five octavo volumes. It comprehends Greece and Turkey up 

 to Dalmatia and the Balkans ; the Crimea ; Egypt up to the 

 first cataracts ; northern Arabia down to the tropical line ; 

 Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, and Mesopotamia ; Turkestan 

 up to 45° of latitude, Persia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan 

 — that is, up to the borders of India. The first volume was 

 published in 1867 ; the fifth, in 1884, brings the work down 

 to its conclusion with the Pteridophytes ; and the manuscript 

 for a supplementary volume, for recent discoveries and some 

 reelaboration, was about half finished when he laid down his 

 pen under an attack seemingly no worse than the many he 

 had recovered from, but which now terminated his earthly 

 life. 



