268 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
que vous de les faire parvenir aux Savans et Amateurs qui s’occupent 
de V’histoire naturelle, et que vous voudriez bien me rendre ce 
service.” Fasc. ii. and iii. seem to have ng issued together, and 
are reviewed in May, 1786 (xxviii. 390; xxx. 1 
Then ensued the dramatic flight. to Balai with the Dombey 
Herbarium (to be referred to later), causing a agente of publi- 
cation till after his return, late in 1787. Fase. iv. was issued about 
Mare , and was Sliced late in the HS year by Fase. v. 
(xxxiv. 9,79), which seems to have been sent out with the first 
part of the Sertum Anglicum; Cavanilles at first (xxxiv. 183, note) 
gave Jan. 1789 as the date, but afterwards corrected it to late in 
1788. Fasc. vi. was not issued till late in 1791 (xl. 9), though it had 
long been i in preparation, and the a paradox of Lamarck’s 
quoting it in his work hemes 1789 is easily explained on the 
ground that I L’Heéritier had Sea 8 btn. with a See EE 3 oi 
means uncommon custom of that or of a late 
or 
the results of several distinct voyages were patie sinalteamealy 
worked out. 
With the sixth part was issued the ‘‘Conspectus fasciculi sep- 
timi,” paged 183-184, giving brief descriptions of plates Ixxxv.- 
x¢evi.; part vii., however, was never circulated, ge the Siipublishod 
numbered plates that have been preserved do not correspond exactly 
with this text. Citations in Aiton’s Hortus aes (iii. 11, 12, 50) 
are taken from this Conspectus 
gore summary of the incomplete work therefore stands as 
follows 
Date on 
Fase. Pages. : Plates. Title. Date of Issue. 
i. PP i-vh, 1-20... 2. i-k., & vii", vee ee ee March. 1785 
ii, vii. & viii., 21-40 ., xi.—xx. pWiar ane April, 1786 
He ee Xi SEO? ei, xxx., in ‘xxx*, ee Goes 1980 . - 
iv. xi. & xii., 63-102 .. xxxi, 5 onlvs » . March, 1788 
Ni. Sa 103-134 xlix, ial: ali, iii*: lvi* As 
5 lvii*. & ‘lix yy Dee. 7=-1788 
Vi. xV. & xviyy 195-187, Tey, ~lxxxiy. RSet aka, Ee » = Dee? 1791 
vii. gare i any: 
pp. 183-184 — - 1791 
Shortly after his return to Paris, L’Héritier gon to issue 
ber fat abot of is = coriplveaeee, consisting of a plate or two 
he had on bl hed in this races without title-page or — Louichia 
(afterwards in a pl. lxv.), Virgilia (2 pls.), two editions, 
Michauaia (2 pls.), two editions — the last four a sal are oe 
among the ssaecbachiod plates of the Stirpes, and numbered exvi. 
cxix., “while Buchozia w was shortly to follow. 
Subsequently another (Hymenopappus) was circulated ; and there 
is ser unissued proof copy in the De Candolle libra ary of a memoi 
on * Kakile, ¢ animadversionibus in Buniadem, Myagrum, et 
Crambem,” pp. 11, fol., 1788. Pritzel further records plates without 
ec of cates and Trieratu (the latter is among the unpublished 
XXx.). 
