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LA BOTANIQUE EN PROVENCE. 283 
Leert (Ludovic). La Botanique en Provence au XVI¢ Siécle: 
Hugues de Solier. Marseilles: Barlatier. 1899. 8vo, pp. 45. 
Recentiy (pp. 88-92) we reviewed a previous contribution by 
this author to the history of Provengal botany in the sixtaotitit 
century. M. - egré has speedily produced a successor, whose title 
is given above. While both works exhibit the same painstaking 
accuracy, “ interest in them is curiously diverse. In the former 
essay we o do with well-known names, and our attention was 
chiefly thee to the readjustment of merit between the two authors 
Pena and Lobel, with additional information which considerably 
modified ee pabisiver of their respective share in the fe ‘pium 
Adversaria. The present essay deals with a man whose name is un- 
familiar ; it does ot appear in either edition of Ay Se Phasibvr us, 
while in ‘Haller’s Bibliotheca Botanica it occurs 8 that of an editor 
Bivins, and was there in 1548. From pg as es giv 
his Scholia, he travelled over France, and was at Lyons in 1547, 
Next we find him in Italy, even as far as N lee subsequently he 
of his career, save from chance hints in the ‘correspondence of 
hom he wa 
centuries. His works were written in Greek, from which they 
were translated by Johann Hagenbut, known as Janus Cornarius. 
Solier’s annotations were prefixed to the Lyons edition of Aetius 
which came out in 1549, and amount to twenty-eight pages in 
two hundred and twenty-eig ich are recognizable as of 
Provencal origin ; the list ie of Solier’s nam e modern 
equivalent, and the vernacular e hat he also occupied 
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light; M. Legré suggests that Solier may have died before their 
completion 
The author of the essay in question, though restricting his 
attention to the early botanists of Provence, is really adding to our 
knowledge of the botany of the period throughout Europe, when 
bo aia were few, but travelled much from one seat of learning to 
another, and the books they mer were —— taken up with 
criticisms ‘of each other’s performances. e botanie com- 
monwealth is greatly indebted to M. Legré te hie aeshdts uity. 
B, Daypon Jackson, 
