272 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the British Museum = shina The plates were reissued in 1813 
y a@ naturalist named Garner 
The ai oe « seu plante rariores que in hortis juxta 
Londinum, imprimis in Horto cin woken > excoluntur, ab anno 
1786 ‘a einai 1787 observate,”’ was prepared during L’Héritier’s 
stay in England, and his otiextiony “teed Paris, Apr il 20, 1788, te 
a graceful acknowledgement of the kindness he received while 
this country. The beautiful plates were drawn by James Baweeby 
and P. J. sagt the latter of whom was in England about this 
time ;* they were, however, engraved in Paris. e numerous 
deseriptions in oe text are largely based on = tic in the 
Banksian Herbarium, thoug’ this is not mentioned; it seems 
jidorncak to point this out, for, as Mr. Spencer Moore has shown in 
this Journal (1901, 886), L’Héritier’s species have been in some cases 
entirely misunderstood, owing to his types not having been consulted. 
remaining fascicles were, however, issued itho text: f 
At about the same period a appeared a monograph of seinen this 
is dated 1788 on the title-page, a date accepted by Roemer and 
Usteri in their review of the book (Mag. Bot., St. 6, 1789, p. 87); 
but De Lamétherie (Obs. Phys. tom. xxxvi. 1790, p. 24) inelodas it 
in his summary for 1789, and rightly, for in a letter to Dryander, 
dated 29 Dec. 1788, L' Héritier states, ‘‘Je n ends pour faire 
mettre sous presse mes Cornus que pour votre ahead 
As presently shown, L’ Héri itier did not think very highly of 
either dissertations or academic memoirs ; meverthicless ) in 1790 as 
Lameétherie nana Obs. Phys. 1791, p. 6: “ M. L’Héritier 
a présenté A l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1° un Mémoire sur 
le genre Hemitomus visi du Celsia, em ; ce nouveau genre renferme 
quatre espéces nouvelles pear tee er rr & rapportée 
Dombey ; 2°. un Mémoire sur le T gata, L. dont l’auteur fait 
un genre nouveau qu'il a appelé Poca ”” These communica- 
tions do not appear to “into a prin 
which he was a Foreign cues, and published in vol. i. oe mm 
Transactions (1791): ‘*On the Genus of Symplocos, comprehendi 
Hopea, Alstonia, and Ciponima,” and ‘‘ On the genus of - ligonun, 
comprehending Pterococcus and Pallasia. A ‘ Mém un 
, 
nouveau genre de os. appelé ste at “ Sen printed i in the May gasin 
See “ L’Héritier’s Species of Relhania,” Journ. Bot. 1984, 123; foe anne 
and the sixteen species —— to it (Sert. Angl. 22) are founded on 
the Banksian Herbarium 
