88 LA BOTANIQUE EN PROVENCE. 
to Banks, which are now in Herb. Mus. Brit.—there are some 
from Johanna, although in his letter oe a speaks of having 
had the misfortune to lose the (about 200) specimens he gathered 
in that island, ‘‘and was very near being drowned myself.” I do 
not know under a circumstances he collected at ales 2 but 
it was before the date above mentioned, for his specimen of Adina 
globiflora is a in Herb. Banks ‘‘Wampo, Mr. "Bobartaoet! 
gathered Novem i 
Dr. Br eroeh i does not seem gers ec with the short 
paper ** De Plantis Sinensium, ad confinia Siberiore australis nuper 
mae er contributed by J. F. Henckel in 1732 to Act. Acad. Nat. 
Cur. ili. 354-356. ars is a list - ere six plants, seeds of 
ain were brought to him by his friend Johannes Godofredus 
Heydenreich, who sitio them ‘‘ in nn Chins confinibus.” But the 
mention of so small an omission as this is in itself a tribute to the 
— sceiuadtenns of the work. 
The number of typographical errors is astonishingly few: nor 
do we find anything of apne in the text which calls for correction. 
An inspection of Solander’s MSS. shows that Martyn was right in 
saying that Bradleia was Hadiented by Banks to Richard Bradley, so 
dat 
14 June, 1894, respectively anny be aiaes to the notices of Alfred 
C er and W. Meo m Perry; and additional information as to 
JAMES Ravel, 
Lrerk oe oe La Botanique en Provenceau XVI¢ Siécle; Pierre 
Mathias de Lobel. Marseille (Barlatier), 1899 [¢. ¢. 
:000). 8vo, pp. viii, 263. 
Tus well-printed volume is in reality a careful and minute 
analysis of the Stirpium Adversaria of the two authors named in 
the title. Other volumes are referred to, but always for the light 
they shed on the subjects treated of in the Adversaria; even later 
pore “i Lobel himself are barely mentioned, the Kruydtboek once 
assing mention, and = final issue of the Adversaria 
itself i in 1605 is passed over in silen 
field of discussion being me Kabrowed, the ey niah of it is 
very choebadi The volume contains three main divisions :— 
I. Le Stirpium Adversaria, 59 pages; II. i olnmieaiione’ en Pro- 
vence, 85 pages; and III. ‘Herborisations en Languedoc, 95 pages ; 
the triple index brings the whole to a conclusion. 
To En ng! readers the first portion will be by far the most 
of the co-authors in their joint production. It further has the 
novelty of introducing to us a man whose personality has been 
completely overshadowed by his partner in the work. 
Planchon, in their well-known Rondelet et ses disciples, speak of ra 
strange mystery enveloping the work of Pens at one and the sam: 
ee 
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