GEDEON BONNIVERT EPI 
bearing no relation to the contents of the volume, is stated to 
contain “plants gathered in the fields and gardens of England, 
mostly of the garden of Leyden from Dr. Herman, &c. by Mr. 
Bonivert”’; 85*, “ plants gathered by Mr. Bonivert in Piandens 
at Breda and at the several camps wherein he was a Lieutenant 
in the English Army”; 86*, “ plants gathered by Mr. Bonivert 
in the fields and gardens of England, at Chelsea, &c.” The small 
folio sheets are of two sizes, one slightly larger than the other; 
owing to some confusion, which the Leap and irreparable 
loss of the original Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium renders it 
impossible to explain, a small cllection (83° ‘) of 26 folios, sepa- 
rately paged, bound at the end of 84*, is described in its title and 
in the transcribed Catalogue ‘is containing plants fro om Tangier, 
&c.; it is however part of Bonnivert’s herbarium, corresponding 
in every particular with the aries folios (196 sqq.) of 85*. 
@ Specimens are in great part named, usually in ink but 
Bh t 
bernia ’ monstrous dese: caf bo Rein major (85* 
r 18) is diac the note, “I had it from Mr. Striker, Apothecary 
in Breda,” who had also given the Aste f ; in the same 
eviden 
Other specimens from Bonnivert are scattered through the 
Sloane Herbarium; H.S. 17, ff. 44, 45, are headed by Sloane, 
* Plants from Flanders from Mr. Bonivert ” ; these are mostly if 
not all duplicates of specimens in his herbarium and include culti- 
vated species. In Plukenet’s herbarium (H. 8. 97 f. 74) is a speci- 
men of Potentilla palustris labelled ‘‘ Pentaphylla palustre rubra 
majus villosissimis foliis ex Hibernia onavert ”’; this, which 
he gave to Plukenet on his return “tees Ireland (Pluk. Alm. 284), 
represents the gatherings near Cork mentioned in his letter quoted 
43 of the same volume is a broad leaf of Ranunculus 
Flammula, described by Plukenet (op. cit. 312) as “ Ranunculus 
flammeus latiori Plantaginis folio, marginibus sie is, ex Hibernia 
ab ornatissimo viro D. ie Bonivert accepimus ” ; the Potentilla 
is See: as being the original of Ph haeisirisiiin: t. 212, fig. 
H. 8. 60 and 82 (one Perr se contains silaarte sent by Bonnivert 
to Coreen: and by him to Sloane, H. S. 72, and are stated to con 
